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