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To perform a combined search, use Tulips Search. After performing a search using keywords, you can narrow the search to include only the e-books available for use by selecting “Full Text Online” and “Book / eBook.” If you log in using the button above, "Full Text Online" and "Book / eBook" are already selected. (To use this service from off-campus, log in with your ID and password.)

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University of Tsukuba has subscribed to the books from the following publishers and collections.
By clicking リモートアクセス可 icon and logging in, you can use these materials off-campus.

All disciplines       

EBSCOhost eBook Collection (NetLibrary)

NetLibrary is the world’s largest collection of academic e-books, containing 300,000 titles of both Japanese and western works. With a focus on academic and specialty-fields, it is possible to access the contents of dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, business books and general books.

Concurrent User:1 or 3 /   User Guide リモートアクセス可 
Infobase eBooks Collections

Infobase Publishing is one of America's leading providers of supplemental educational materials to the school and library markets. In the University of Tsukuba, the following collections are available : Ferguson's Career Discovery / Geography / Health and Guidance /Multicultural Studies / Science / US History / World History (1,285 titles) . They provide various academic subject matters written in a relatively easy style for the Middle/High school students.

※To download an eBook, click "Download" option on the left side of the screen and enter your email address. Then click the download link in the email sent. The fulltext will be provided in PDF or ePub format.

Concurrent User:Unlimited /   User Guide(PDF) リモートアクセス可 
KinoDen

This is an e-book platform consisting of Japanese books for academic institutions.

  • If the message "bREADER Cloud 試し読みを表示しています" (Showing trial reading) is displayed when you click the "閲覧開始" (Start browsing) button, you may have exceeded the maximum number of simultaneous accesses. Please try accessing the book a little later.
  • For each viewing, it is possible to print/ save a maximum of 60 pages.

*When using Internet Explorer, the text may not be displayed correctly.Please use other web browsers.

Concurrent User:1~3 /   User Guide(PDF)(in Japanese) リモートアクセス可
Maruzen eBook Library

This is an e-book platform consisting of Japanese books for academic institutions (reference books, enlightenment and culture texts, specialized field books).

  • When the message "この書籍はご契約の同時アクセスを超えています。
    (This book exceeds the simultaneous access of the contract)" appears, please try to access the book after a while.
  • The number of pages that can be downloaded depends on the content. Please check the number of downloadable pages displayed on the details screen. Some contents cannot be downloaded due to the contract.

*From June 29, 2022, you will be required to enter the university email address (ending in s.tsukuba.ac.jp, u.tsukuba.ac.jp and un.tsukuba.ac.jp) when performing download. You also need to enter the verification code that will be sent your email address.

Concurrent User:1 or 3 /   User Guide (in Japanese) リモートアクセス可 
Mason Crest eBooks

This platform provides eBooks for upper elementary to high school level. Academic subject matters are written in easy English.


56 titles in “Global Studies” collection are available at University of Tsukuba.

Concurrent User:Unlimited   リモートアクセス可      

Oxford Academic

Oxford Academic is a platform that gives you access to all the online books and journals published by Oxford University Press.

  • Enter the keywords and perform the search, or select a subject.
  • The icon of a green key next to a book's title indicates that the title is one for which the main text can be accessed.

Concurrent User: Unlimited   リモートアクセス可

Oxford Reference

This is an e-book platform consisting of dictionaries and encyclopedias in humanities & social sciences and medical sciences by Oxford University Press.

  • Check the “Unlocked" and "Free" boxes, only the contents that can be accessed from University of Tsukuba will be searched.

Concurrent User:1 or Unlimited  リモートアクセス可

ProQuest Ebook Central
(formerly: ebrary + MyiLibrary)

Ebook Central is a collection of e-books published by the world’s leading 650 publishers that can be searched and viewed from a single platform. 1,000 titles are available at University of Tsukuba. For over 1.7 million ebooks which University of Tsukuba Library has not purchased, you can preview full text for 5 minutes and make a purchase request.

Concurrent User:1~3 or Unlimited /   User Guide (PDF) (in Japanese)    リモートアクセス可 

ScienceDirect eBooks

ScienceDirect ebooks provides encyclopedias, handbooks, book series in all subject areas published by Elsevier B.V.

If you are looking for a book, select the checkboxes for “Books”, “Handbooks”, “Reference works” and “Book series”.
Select the “Subscribed & complimentary” and “Open access” checkboxes, only the contents that can be accessed from University of Tsukuba will be searched.

Concurrent User:Unlimited /   Quick Reference Guide(PDF) リモートアクセス可 
Taylor & Francis eBooks

Taylor & Francis eBook is a collection of e-books, focusing mainly on humanities and social sciences.
At University of Tsukuba about 750 volumes of sports-related e-books can be accessed.

  • Enter the keywords and perform the search, or select a subject.
  • If you select the checkbox for “Show content I have access to” only the titles of works that can be accessed from University of Tsukuba will be searched.
Concurrent User:1 or Unlimited /   Using an eBook (User guide)  リモートアクセス可 
Wiley Online Library

Wiley-Blackwell is an international academic publishing company that publishes numerous journals and books.All disciplines of the university are covered, with more than 1,400 journals and over 300 book titles available.

If you are looking for a thesis, select “Articles & Chapters” to perform the search. If you are looking for a journal or book, select “Publications”. The icon of an opened padlock indicates that the title is one for which the main text can be accessed. For details about the use method, refer to the guides below.

Concurrent User:Unlimited /   Resources for Researchers リモートアクセス可 

Humanities and social sciences

Bloomsbury Collections

Bloomsbury Collections is a collection of ebooks in the humanities and social sciences provided by Bloomsbury Publishing.

Concurrent User:Unlimited    リモートアクセス可 
Wiley Online Library
(formerly:Blackwell Reference Online)

A digital collection of humanities and social science reference books. Includes dictionaries, handbooks for beginners, textbooks, etc. For each article, there is a summary of the latest research by experts at the forefront in the field, as well as a list of references. It can be used as the entry to new fields of research, and as a starting point for the preparation of reports and seminar presentations. From University of Tsukuba, it is possible to access approximately 720 titles in all fields published online from 2007 to 2015.

Title list(PDF:311KB)

Concurrent User:Unlimited   リモートアクセス可 
Cambridge Books Online

This is the site for e-books published by Cambridge University Press. From University of Tsukuba, you can access 960 titles, mainly in the areas of social sciences, such as politics, economics, and management.

Select the "Only show content I have access to" checkbox, only the contents that can be viewed at University of Tsukuba will be displayed.

Concurrent User:5 or Unlimited  リモートアクセス可 
Cambridge Companions Online

The online version of the Cambridge Companions series. There are 415 items that can be accessed in areas including literature, classical studies, philosophy, religion and cultural research (music fields are not included.)

Select the "Only show content I have access to" checkbox, only the contents that can be viewed at University of Tsukuba will be displayed.

Concurrent User:Unlimited   リモートアクセス可 
Cambridge History Online

The online version of the history reference Cambridge Histories series, with 295 items available.

Select the "Only show content I have access to" checkbox, only the contents that can be viewed at University of Tsukuba will be displayed.

Concurrent User:Unlimited   リモートアクセス可 
Early English Books Online(EEBO)

EEBO now contains page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473 to 1700. This incomparable collection contains more than 130,000 titles and more than 17 million scanned pages.

※EEBO migrated from ProQuest to NII-REO platform at the end of March 2020. Please change your bookmark if you have registered. 【last edited:April 2020】

Concurrent User:Unlimited   リモートアクセス可 
Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)

This is the online version of the reference books published by Gale Inc.t University of Tsukuba you can access 240 titles, mainly in fields related to sports.

  • Select a title from the subject list, and browse the table of contents, or enter a keyword (such as an event or person’s name) into the search field to perform a full-text search.
  • Search results are displayed in units of chapters.
  • Articles can be displayed in both HTML format and PDF format.
  • here is a download function for audio data (MP3), and a function for outputting bibliographic information in a reference list format.

※Titles published by Dorling Kindersly and Alpha Books are only available in text format, and images cannot be viewed.(Title list[Excel](13KB))

Concurrent User:Unlimited /   Title list リモートアクセス可 
The Making of the Modern World

This is a full-text database that contains social sciences literature from the mid-15th century through the mid- 20th century.

MOMW-I: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850.

This database contains 61,000 documents, focusing mainly on economic history, business history and social philosophy history from the mid-15th century through 1850, as well as the full text from 466 magazines from the same period.
This contains digitized versions of the full text of “The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature” collection (not in University of Tsukuba Library collection), which consists of microfilms of the collections of the University of London Goldsmith Library as well as the Kress Library of Business and Economics at the Harvard Business School, totaling about 12 million pages.

MOMW-II: Making of the Modern World, Part II: 1851-1914.

This contains about 5,000 titles and over 1.2 million pages covering the fields of sociology, economics and business history from the late 19th century through the early 20th century.
The original collections are from Columbia University, Hiroshima University of Economics Seligman Collection, University of Kansas Library, and the University of London Goldsmith Library, consisting mainly of books, reports, communications, speeches, and research reports. About 50% of the records are in languages other than English (including French, German, Portuguese, Scandinavian, Italian, and Spanish).

 

MOMW-III: The Making of the Modern World Part III: 1890-1945.

This collection is comprised of about a million pages of monographs and periodicals from Senate House and Goldsmiths’ Libraries. The key events that have shaped the modern world -the First World War, the Great Depression, and the Second World War- are covered.The Making of the Modern World, Part III: 1890–1945 build on the previously published archives overlapping Part II, 1851-1914 chronologically with no duplication of content.Most of the content is in English, and the content which is in French, German, and other western languages is also included.

MOMW is available on those 2 platforms.
Gale (PartI, II, III)   リモートアクセス可 PartI, II: through March 29, 2024
NII-REO (PartI, II, III)   リモートアクセス可

 
Concurrent User:Unlimited   
Routledge Handbooks Online

Routledge Handbooks Online provides an authoritative guide to theory and method, the key sub-disciplines, and the primary debates of today in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
About 360 titles are available in the university.

Concurrent User:Unlimited リモートアクセス可 

Natural sciences

Contemporary Mathematics

This is the digital version of the Contemporary Mathematics series issued by AMS (American Mathematical Society). The summaries of conference proceedings, such international and academic conferences held in various countries, are contributed by researchers active in each of the fields, and the recorded documents are guaranteed to have undergone a high-level of peer review. Titles issued from 2012 to 2014 (Volume CONM/561 ~ 630) are available for use by University of Tsukuba members.

Can only be used on Tsukuba Campus
Concurrent User:Unlimited リモートアクセス可 
Springer eBooks

Enables access to about 20,000 e-books, mainly in STM (science, technology, medicine) field issued by Springer.The digital versions of materials like the Lecture Notes in Computer Science can also be used. Titles shown with a key icon are not available under the University of Tsukuba contract. If the checkbox for "Include Preview-Only content" is cleared, only the books that can be viewed at University of Tsukuba will be displayed. >>more

Concurrent User:Unlimited /   User Guide (in Japnanese, PDF) リモートアクセス可