The CHSSL will be closed on Mon., June 21 – Wed., June 25.
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The CHSSL will be closed on June 23-25.
From 17:30 p.m. on March 13, request form is down
'Request Rare Books’ form on our website is down for maintenance as follows:
from 17:30 to 19:30 on March 13th.
The outage might have to be extended if any unanticipated problems occur.
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From 9:00 a.m. on Feb. 6, our website is down
Our website and 'Request Rare Books’ form is down for maintenance as follows:
from 9:00 to 17:00 on February 6th.
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From 10:00 a.m. on Nov. 7, our website is down
Our website and 'Request Rare Books’ form is down for maintenance as follows:
from 10:00 to 16:00 on November 7th.
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The CHSSL will be closed on Oct. 21-23.
The CHSSL will be closed on Mon., Oct. 21 – Wed., Oct. 23.
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Introducing CHSSL’s Digital Collections on JSTOR
The Center for Historical Social Science Literature (CHSSL) is currently making its digital collections available on JSTOR Shared Collections. Through this service, we offer access to digitalized classical materials of Western social science, fostering the development of humanities and social sciences. Our mission is to extend Hitotsubashi University’s rich educational and research resources to researchers and institutions globally, facilitating scholarly endeavors both in Japan and abroad.
Explore CHSSL’s Digital Collections on JSTOR
Available Now:
- Carl Menger Library: Featuring Menger’s Personal Selections
- Rachi Library: Documents Pertaining to the 1848 Vienna Revolution
- Incunabula
- Other Rare Materials from CHSSL
Stay Tuned for Future Additions.
Study Series No. 81 is available
We published Study Series No. 81. It is available on HERMES-IR. (Only PDF edition. Print edition is not published.)
Study Series, No.81(February 2024)
Tomomi FUKUSHIMA, Koichi YUKISHIMA, Yuji SAKAKURA. Comment utiliser la littérature classique occidentale archivée au Japon : études de cas à partir des livres rares de la collection Corvaia (bibliothèque de l’université Waseda). = How to make use of Western classical literature archived in Japan : focusing on rare books from the Corvaia Collection at Waseda University Library. (in Japanese)
Related Literature
Study Series, No.76(March 2020)
Yuji Sakakura, Takeshi Koseki, Kyoko Matsunami. Describing Books, Describing the World: Looking at the Age of Enlightenment through Bibliography. (in Japanese)
Study Series, No.80(September 2022)
Akira Takano, Eriko Nakai ; Purpose of the symposium by Shinichi Nagao. Present stage of Descriptive Bibliography and archival research on Western rare books. (in Japanese)
From 13:00 p.m. on Jan. 30, our website is down
Our website and 'Request Rare Books’ form is down for maintenance as follows:
from 13:00 to 17:00 on January 30th.
The outage might have to be extended if any unanticipated problems occur.
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The CHSSL will be closed on Nov. 13-15.
The CHSSL will be closed on Mon., Nov. 13 – Wed., Nov. 15.
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From 18:00 p.m. on October 5, request form is down
'Request Rare Books’ form on our website is down for maintenance as follows:
from 18:00 p.m. on October 5th to 13:00 p.m. on October 6th.
The outage might have to be extended if any unanticipated problems occur.
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