University Library[OUTLINE OF KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY 2019]

Facilities and Library Holdings

As of May 1, 2019

Name Floor Space(m2 Number of Seats Library Holdings
Japanese Books Foreign Books Total Periodicals
Central Library 10,456 1,096 898,796 305,099 1,203,895 16,219
Natural Science and Technology Library 5,758 694 203,182 220,999 424,181 11,672
Medical Library 3,580 401 131,697 152,175 283,872 8,441
Total 19,794 2,191 1,233,675 678,273 1,911,948 36,332

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

User Services

2018 Academic Year

Total Opening Days 854
Total Opening Hours 9,682
Total Number of Visitors 704,529
Volumes Lent 119,711
Photocopying Inside University 423
Request from Outside 3,157
Request to Outside 2,834
Interlibrary Borrowing Inside University 812
Lent to Outside 868
Borrowed from Outside 988

* Figure shows total number of 3 libraries

Information Retrieval

2018 Academic Year

Package Titles of Electric Journals Number of Titles
Science Direct 2,322
Taylor&Francis 2,210
Springer Link 1,586
Wiley Online Library 1,441
Medical Online 1,367
Oxford Journals 250
PsycARTICLES 116
JSTOR 115
ACS 59
LWW Fixed 50 50
GeoScienceWorld 47
ASCE 35
ASME 30
Nature 27
Others 261
Grand Total 9,916
Databases
Ichushi Web
Saishin Kango Sakuin Web
Kagakusho Shiryokan
Kikuzo Ⅱ text for Libraries
JapanKnowledge Lib
NIKKEI Telecom 21
NIKKEI BP Kiji Kensaku Service
CINAHL
EconLit
Evidence Based Medicine Reviews
PsycINFO
InCites Journal & Highly Cited Data(JCR+ESI)
Zassaku plus
MathSciNet
New York Times
SciFinder
Scopus
TKC Law Library
Westlaw Next
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