University Library[OUTLINE OF KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY 2022]

Facilities and Library Holdings

As of May 1, 2021

Name Floor Space (m2) Number of Seats Library Holdings
Japanese Books Foreign Books Total Periodicals
Central Library 10,456 1,106 914,205 304,759 1,218,964 21,899
Natural Science and Technology Library 5,758 694 199,723 225,129 424,852 13,001
Medical Library 3,580 394 133,419 150,961 284,380 8,402
Total 19,794 2,194 1,247,347 680,849 1,928,196 43,302

* Medical Library includes the facilities and library holdings of the Health Sciences Library.

User Services

2021 Academic Year

Total Opening Days 844
Total Opening Hours 9,244
Total Number of Visitors 391,304
Volumes Lent 95,547
Photocopying Inside University 369
Request from Outside 2,205
Request to Outside 2,461
Interlibrary Borrowing Inside University 898
Lent to Outside 1,208
Borrowed from Outside 1553

* Figure shows total number of 3 libraries

Information Retrieval

2021 Academic Year

Package Titles of Electric Journals Number of Titles
Science Direct 2,336
Springer Link 2,264
Wiley Online Library 1,433
Medical Online 1,500
Taylor&Francis 2,211
Oxford Journals 360
JSTOR 117
PsycARTICLES 121
LWW Fixed 50 50
GeoScienceWorld 51
ACS 64
ASCE 35
Nature 28
ASME 33
Others 285
Grand Total 10,888
Databases
Asahi Shimbun Cross-Search
Ichushi Web
Saishin Kango Sakuin Web
Kagakusho Shiryokan
JapanKnowledge Lib
NIKKEI Telecom 21
NIKKEI BP Kiji Kensaku Service
Today’s Clinical Support
Zassaku plus
CINAHL
Cochrane Library
EconLit
InCites Journal & Highly Cited Data(JCR+ESI)
MathSciNet
SciFinder-n
Scopus
TKC Law Library
UpToDate
Westlaw Next
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