University Library[OUTLINE OF KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY 2021]

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 1,097 905,628 303,358 1,208,986 21,944
Natural Science and Technology Library 5,758 694 198,045 224,441 422,486 13,014
Medical Library 3,580 394 132,113 150,758 282,871 8,410
Total 19,794 2,185 1,235,786 678,557 1,914,343 43,368

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

User Services

2020 Academic Year

Total Opening Days 694
Total Opening Hours 7,599
Total Number of Visitors 270,067
Volumes Lent 73,856
Photocopying Inside University 304
Request from Outside 2,845
Request to Outside 2,060
Interlibrary Borrowing Inside University 884
Lent to Outside 1,083
Borrowed from Outside 912

* Figure shows total number of 3 libraries

Information Retrieval

2020 Academic Year

Package Titles of Electric Journals Number of Titles
Science Direct 2,376
Springer Link 2,269
Wiley Online Library 1,474
Medical Online 1,452
Taylor&Francis 2,225
Oxford Journals 242
JSTOR 116
PsycARTICLES 120
LWW Fixed 50 50
GeoScienceWorld 49
ACS 64
ASCE 35
Nature 27
ASME 33
Others 212
Grand Total 10,744
Databases
Ichushi Web
Saishin Kango Sakuin Web
Kagakusho Shiryokan
KikuzoⅡ 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)
Today’s Clinical Support
Zassaku plus
MathSciNet
SciFinder
Scopus
TKC Law Library
UpToDate
Westlaw Next
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