Guide to the Library

Library Hours

	Reading Rooms	Circulation	Library Services
Monday to Friday	9:00 - 22:00	9:00 - 21:50	9:00 - 18:30
Saturday	9:00 - 22:00	9:00 - 21:50	―
Sunday, National Holidays	9:00 - 19:00	9:00 - 18:50	―
Closed	The year-end and New Year holidays, Founder's Day of the University (15 November)

• Please carry your ID Card of Showa University to enter the Library.
• Please see the Library Calendar.

Circulation

Borrowing

Please hand in materials you want to borrow with your ID Card (or Library Card) to the circulation counter. If you do not have the ID Card, please register before borrowing the materials. [registration form]

Books	10 items	2 weeks
Journals		1 week
Videos, CD-ROMs, DVDs		1 week

*If you are to be at the University for less than 3 months, all materials must be returned in 1week.
(cf. students: 1 day)
*Other materials have special rules.

Reference Books and Dictionaries

5 items

16:00-next noon

Notice

You may renew the loan any number of times unless there is a request for that item.
Do not sublease the borrowed item.

Returning

Please return materials to the circulation counter within the borrowing period. (You don't need your ID Card.)
When the Library is closed, put them in the Book Return Box at the entrance of the Library.

Research Tools

To Search Articles
PubMed	free	U. S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) ?PubMed Help  a database of bibliographic information in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences that includes MEDLINE (1950-)
IndexCat	free	U. S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) ?IndexCat Help ?IndexCat FAQ  a digitized version of the printed Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office (1880-1961)
CINAHL	All Showa <4>	EBSCO host ?User Guide ?Support Center  a database of bibliographic information in nursing and allied health (1981-)
CAS SciFinder?	Hatanodai+	●CAS SciFinder? Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) ?You need to register at the first time. Please check here. ?Training Materials a single source for scientific information in journal and patent literature ●Common Chemistry Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
Scopus	All Showa	Elsevier *Quick Reference Guide *Scopus tutorials an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social science, humanities
医中誌Web[ICHU-SHI Web] (Japanese)	Hatanodai+ <14> / Nagatsuta <4>	ICHU-SHI = IGAKU CHUO ZASSHI: Japana Centra Revuo Medicina 医学中央雑誌刊行会  a database of bibliographic information in Japanese medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing science, veterinary medicine and related fields (1983-)
最新看護索引Web[SAISHIN KANGO SAKUIN Web] (Japanese)	All Showa <10>	SAISHIN KANGO SAKUIN: Current Index to Japanese Nursing Literature 日本看護協会  a database of bibliographic information in Japanese nursing science and related fields (1987-)

 

To Search Evidence
Cochrane Library	All Showa	Wiley Online Library *User Guide *Please check here for other languages. *Cochrane Collaboration  a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making <Updates 4 times / year>

 

To Search for Drug Information
UpToDate Lexidrug (formerly Lexicomp Online)	Hatanodai+	Wolters Kluwer Health *User Guide *Quick Reference Guide *Training & Support  a collection of clinical databases and clinical decision support tools
UpToDate Lexidrug (formerly Lexicomp Online for Dentistry)	Hatanodai+	Wolters Kluwer Health *User Guide *Quick Reference Guide *Training & Support  a collection of clinical databases and clinical decision support tools

 

To Research a Clinical Question
UpToDate	All Showa	UpToDate *UpToDate FAQ *User Manual  an evidence based, peer reviewed medical information resource <Updates 3 times / year>

 

To Search Impact Factor
Journal Citation Reports (JCR)	All Showa	Clarivate Analytics (Thomson Reuters)  a source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all areas of science and technology

  

To Search Japanese Laws
D1-Law.com 現行法規［履歴検索］[GENKO HOKI RIREKI KENSAKU] (Japanese)	All Showa	GENKO HOKI RIREKI KENSAKU: Japan Code Point-in-time Search  第一法規 (Japanese)

 

To Search Books
CiNii Books	free	National Institute of Informatics (NII) *User Guide *FAQ a database to search information of books and journals held by university libraries in Japan. to search only for books and journals held in a specific library, please put library ID (FAID) into the "Library ID" box. <FA005391>: Showa University Library (Hatanodai) holding (including Dental Hospital Library (Senzoku))  <FA017754>: Showa University Nagatsuta Library holding

 

To Search Video Journals and Videos
JoVE : Journal of Visualized Experiments	All Showa	About JoVE *FAQ
Medical*Online Video (Japanese)	All Showa	メテオ (Japanese)

Publishers sites
isho.jpオールアクセス	All Showa
Electronic Journals
Electronic Books
MedicalOnline	All Showa
MedicinesComplete	Hatanodai <1>
Ovid	All Showa <3>
ScienceDirect	All Showa	Elsevier *Quick Reference Guide *HELP  Elsevier's peer-reviewed, full text database containing electronic book titles and electronic journal titles covering the fields of science, technology and medicine
今日の診療[KON'NICHI NO SHINRYO] (Japanese)	All Showa <5>

Where you are able to access a database:

All Showa	computers connected to Showa University LAN: Hatanodai, Dental Hospital (Senzoku), Fujigaoka Hospital, Nagatsuta(Yokohama),  Karasuyama Hospital, Northern Yokohama Hospital, Koto Toyosu Hospital and Fujiyoshida
Hatanodai	computers connected to Hatanodai LAN
Hatanodai+	computers connected to Hatanodai LAN including Dental Hospital (Senzoku), Fujigaoka Hospital, Karasuyama Hospital, Northern Yokohama Hospital and Koto Toyosu Hospital
Nagatsuta	computers connected to Nagatsuta (Yokohama)  LAN
ID/P+All Showa	computers connected to Hatanodai LAN with ID/PASS
free	free

<*>: number of users to access a database

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Services & Document Delivery

You can obtain books or photocopies not available in Showa University Library from our branch libraries or other libraries.

To request an item:

Paper forms - available at the circulation counter.
Web forms - available online on MyLibrary. Please check here at first (Japanese only).
Please check Our Library Holdings and Eletcronic Journals or Electronic Books before requesting an article from Interlibrary Loan.

Interlibrary Loan Services (Books only)

Library	Costs	Delivery Time	Loan Periods
Fujiyoshida Library Storage	Free	1-5 days	2 weeks
Other Libraries	Shipping	1-4 days	1 week after it arrives

Document Delivery

Library	Costs	Delivery Time
Branch Libraries	10-20 yen / copy	2-5 days
Other Libraries	copy charge + postage + 50 yen	1-7 days

Visiting Other Libraries

You will need an introduction card from Showa University Library to visit another library.

Branch Libraries

Notice

• Please observe the rules in the Library.
• You must pay for what you borrowed if you damage or lose it.
• Do not eat, drink, smoke, nor use a cellular phone or PHS in the Library.
• If the staff has determined you as an unsuitable user, we may refuse you.

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