The CHSSL will be closed on Mon., Oct. 21 – Wed., Oct. 23.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

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.

　Link to JSTOR Shared Collections – Hitotsubashi University

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)

Our website and 'Request Rare Books’ form will be 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 Mon., Nov. 13 – Wed., Nov. 15.
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'Request Rare Books’ form on our website will be down for maintenance as follows:
from 18:00 p.m. on October 5th to 13:00 p.m. on October 6th.

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Our website and 'Request Rare Books’ form will be down for maintenance as follows:
from 10:00 to 18:00 on September 14th.

The outage might have to be extended if any unanticipated problems occur.
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Our website and 'Request Rare Books’ form will be down for maintenance as follows:
from 13:00 to 18:00 on June 20th.

The outage might have to be extended if any unanticipated problems occur.
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'Request Rare Books’ form on our website will be down for maintenance as follows:
from 15:00 to 17:00 on May 29th.

The outage might have to be extended if any unanticipated problems occur.
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We published Bulletin of the Center for Historical Social Science Literature No. 43. It is available on HERMES-IR. (Only PDF edition. Print edition is not published.)

Bulletin of the Center for Historical Social Science Literature, No. 43 (March 2023)

《Contents》

  • Yoshikazu SUZUKI. “Erasmus and the Ideal Prince" (in Japanese)
  • Shunji TAKAHASHI. “Humanism in the Age without God : Science and Human in Fontenelle" (in Japanese)
  • Daiki KIWAYAMA. “Léon Duguit and “the Organization of Control"" (in Japanese)
  • Takahito MORI. “Fukuda Tokuzo in der Zeit der “Reformen": Ein Überblick über seine sozial- und wirtschaftspolitischen Ideen in »Wirtschaftskrise und Konjunkturerholung«" (in Japanese)
  • Akira TAKANO. “Characteristics of Western Old Books Necessary to Make Catalogue" (in Japanese)
  • Taichi KOCHIYA. “As the Research Associate for CHSSL" (in Japanese)
  • Journal, 2022 (in Japanese)