FAQ
1. Schedule/Guide
- Opening hours/date
- How to enter the library
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Nagasaki University students do not need to apply to use the library. Please let the card-reader at the entrance gate read your student ID card before entering the library.
- How to apply for use (faculty and staff)
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Please fill out the application form and send it to us as an email attachment or by intramural mail. We will contact you by email after your registration is completed.
【If you have a staff IC card】
Please let the the card-reader at the entrance gate read your staff IC card before entering the library.
【If you do not have a staff IC card】
We will issue a library card. Please have your library card scanned by the card-reader at the entrance gate before entering the library.
- Access
- Connect to “Chodai Wi-Fi”
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You can use “Chodai Wi-Fi” in the library. You need your student ID and password to connect to Wi-Fi. Please click on the link below to learn how to set up.
Center for Information and Communication Technology website (Japanese only）
- PC and photocopiers
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You may use the desktop computers in the library. Please click on the link below to see the location and number of computers in each library. You need a student ID and password to use them.
Computers in the LibraryYou can print from the printers in the library. The fee is 10 yen per sheet for black and white and 40 yen per sheet for color.
You can also print from your own laptop. Please refer to the setup manual for details.
Setup manual (Japanese only）
- Drinking, Cell phone calls, No smoking
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You may only bring drinks into the library in plastic bottles or other beverages with lids that can be sealed. We have vending machines, so you can buy your drinks.
Area for light meals in the library Cent Lib 2F Balcony
Library LoungeMed Lib 1F Refresh corner Econ Lib 1F Library Salon You may call in designated areas of each library. Please ask the service desk of each library for the location.
Areas where you can talk on your cell phone in the library Cent Lib 2F Balcony Med Lib 1F Refresh corner
Phone boothEcon Lib 1F Library Salon
2F Rest cornerNagasaki University is a non-smoking campus.
- Areas for online classes and web interviews
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Online classes and web interviews are available at the following locations.
Areas where you can speak in the library for online classes Cent Lib 1F
2F Media room & Library LoungeMed Lib 1F Group Study Room
1F Learning CommonsEcon Lib 1F Learning Commons
- Group study
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You can reserve and use group study rooms and seminar rooms for up to 30 days in advance. Please click on the link below for the time and number of people who can use these rooms.
Group StudyHow to reserve
Please apply through the online service “MyLibrary“. If you wish to use the room on the day of your visit, please come to the service desk.
2. Borrow/Return/Reservations/Renewals
- Borrow
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Please come to the service desk with books and your student ID card. You may also use an auto-lending machine by yourself.
Cent Lib
区分 冊数 期間 Undergraduate SR 10 books ２weeks SB 10 books Graduate student
Faculty staffSR 10 books 2 weeks SB 20 books 30 days Alumni & alumnae student
Open University of Japan studentSR 5 books ２weeks SB 5 books General person SR 3 books ２weeks SB
Med Lib
区分 冊数 期間 Undergraduate
Graduate student
Faculty staff10 books 2 weeks Alumni & alumnae student
Open University of Japan student5 books 2 weeks General person 3 books 2 weeks
Econ Lib
区分 冊数 期間 Undergraduate SR 10 books ２weeks SB 10 books Graduate student
Faculty staffSR 10 books 2 weeks SB 20 books 30 days Alumni & alumnae student
Open University of Japan studentSR 5 books ２weeks SB 5 books General person SR 3 books ２weeks SB
※SR: Stacks of Reading room, SB: Stacks Books
- Return
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Please return the book to the Service Desk or Book Post by the due date. If you have not returned even one material by a due date, you can not borrow another books.
- Reservations
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You can reserve books through our online service. Please click on the link below for details.
- Renewals
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You can extend your borrowing period twice, if no one is waiting for the book.
3. Search for materials
- Search for materials in Nagasaki University
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You can search Nagasaki University materials by “Nagasaki University OPAC”.
Nagasaki University OPAC【For students】
If we do not have the book you wish to use for study or research, you can request it from request form (Japanese only).
- Use electronic resources
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●e-Books
“e-Books” are electronic version of books which can read full-text on the internet. Please click on the link below for details.
●e-Journals
“e-Journals” are electronic version of journals which can read full-text on the internet. Please click on the link below for details.
●Database
Databases is a collection of data organized in a manner that allows retrieval and use of data. We provides an available major databases for study and research. Some databases is possible to access from off-campus. Please click on the link below for details.
- Use from outside the campus
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With some electronic resources can be accessed from outside the campus by using a remote access service “EZproxy”. Please click on the link below for details.
Use electronic resources (E-books, E-journals, and Databases) from outside the campus
- Interlibrary loans and use of other libraries
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When you can not find the document that you are searching for in Nagasaki University, you can go to search directly in libraries of other universities, or you can get the document from other libraries. Please click on the link below for details.
4. For faculty
- Request to purchase books for laboratory
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Faculty members of Nagasaki University can request us to purchase books for laboratory. Please click on the link below for details.
5. Open Access
- What does open access mean?
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Open access means that research outputs such as journal articles are made publicly available on the Internet and can be viewed by anyone free of charge. Please refer to the “Open Access Handbook, 2nd Edition” created by the University of Tokyo Library for an easy-to-understand summary of open access.
- What is the best way to make an academic paper open access?
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There are two methods: Green Open Access (self-archiving) and Gold Open Access (open access publishing). In order to promote and strengthen Gold Open Access, Nagasaki University provides support for open access publishing.
Green Open Access: The authors of an academic paper voluntarily make the paper (the completed version) available to anyone for free via the Internet in institutional repositories or on their own websites, etc.
Gold Open Access: Posting of academic papers submitted for open access publication on a website operated directly by the journal’s publishing company.
- Nagasaki University’s Institutional Repository
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NAOSITE : Nagasaki University’s Academic Output SITE is a institutional repository
It registers and stores the collections of bulletins, dissertations, publications, technical papers, and presentations, which are made by researchers belonging to the Nagasaki University, and disseminates them widely via the Internet.
- I understand that the immediate open accessmandate for publicly funded research results (academic papers and source data) will be implemented for new applications in FY2025. Will this apply to all grants?
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The following subsidies are available for new applications in FY2025 (as of October 8, 2024), but subject to additions and changes. For details, please refer to thesubsidy websites, etc.
Name of ministry/agency Funding agency Name of program １ Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science and Technology (MEXT)Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research ２ Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science and Technology (MEXT)Japan Science and Technology Agency Strategic Basic Research Programs ３ Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science and Technology (MEXT)Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development Advanced Research & Development Programs for Medical Innovation ４ Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science and Technology (MEXT)Japan Science and Technology Agency Fusion Oriented Research for disruptive Science and Technology
- What are predatory journals?
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Predatory journals exploit the open access journal business model whereby authors pay an article processing charge (APC) and anyone can freely read the articles. Predatory journals exploit the psychology of authors who want to publish in a hurry, or trick authors into paying high article processing charges by pretending to be prestigious academic journals.
Submitting an academic paper to a predatory journal not only wastes valuable research funds but also leads to a loss of social reputation for the researcher and their institution. Even if there is no problem with the actual academic paper to be submitted, publishing research results in such a malicious journal can be problematic.
When submitting an academic paper for publication, please carefully consider and confirm that you are submitting to a credible journal.
- What is an embargo?
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It is a period of time, determined by a journal/publisher, during which access to an article is not allowed. Once the embargo is over, an article can be published in the Nagasaki University Scholarly Publications Repository “NAOSITE”. The repository sets release dates for articles to be made accessible after the embargo period ends.
6. Others
- Events
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We provide event information on our website and official social media.
Nagasaki University Library Social Media Official Accounts
- Nagasaki University Digital Collecion
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We have digitized our collections of rare materials and made them available on the Internet. Please click on the link below for details.
Nagasaki University Digital CollectionNagasaki University Library has ownership and copyright of all data including images provided by the servers. It is prohibited to copy, alter, redistribute, or sell part, parts, or all of the data.
If you wish to use any of these data in publications, broadcasting, lectures and so on, please contact in advance. Please click on the link below for details.
How to Use the Collection of Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period and more (Japanese Only)