Waseda University Library has decided to extend the trial reading service and reception of purchase requests for ebooks of the following databases until the end of March 2025.
Due to the end of fiscal year, it is scheduled on the early April 2024 to contact you when we decide to purchase the book you requested Friday, 23 Febrary – Sunday, 31 March. In addition, the free trial reading service will be continuously available on March.
Databases
Who is eligible?
All faculty and students who are able to access the databases.
* Before using this service from off-campus, please check with the Off-Campus Access to ensure you are eligible.
Time period
Until March 2025.
Instructions
For the details, please refer to the “How to use” tips in the “必ずお読みください/Read Before Use” at each database log-in page.
Notice
- You can use 5 minutes trial reading service without access limits.
- As for Maruzen eBook Library, please read “Notes for Use of Maruzen eBook Library (MeL)” carefully before requesting or using ebooks.
- Please be sure to fill in the “Reason for Purchase.”
- The Library gives priority to purchasing ebooks requested by the faculty members for their own courses. In addition, please check “Notes for Use of Maruzen eBook Library (MeL)” if the Maruzen eBook Library is to be used in a class.
- Please fill in the details such as the class name and the name of the teaching staff in charge in the following cases.
- The faculty needs to use ebooks for preparing their courses or lecture.
- The faculty needs to recommend ebooks to their students for their classes, seminars or research guidance.
- Students have to read ebooks professors recommended.
- The Library would reject requests for high-priced titles, requests for titles already held physical materials, or excessive requests from the same user.
- Movies and periodicals are excepted from requests of purchasing on this service.
- You are not informed of the rejects of your requests. The status of “Pending” remains in Ebook Central even though your requests are rejected. This status will be initialized and reset at the end of the fiscal year. Thank you for your understanding.
- Some titles have a limit on the number of simultaneous accesses. Please refer to each instruction for the details. Please note that when you use ebooks for courses. Please try after a while if you cannot access the ebook.
- Though in rare cases, buttons of “request” or “trial” of some titles in MeL do not work due to decisions by the vendor. Both preview and purchase requests are not available for this title.
Other
- This purchase request service is different from conventional Online Request. Please use “Library Online Request Form” as ever when you need printed materials.
- Please check the implementation period and eligibility for using the service.
Contact
Department of Collection Management
Email: shiryokanrika(★)list.waseda.jp *Please replace (★) with @ when sending mail.