Library Guidance
As part of its academic support the APU Library offers various guidance sessions inline with student and faculty needs.
For Faculty
Class Guidance Sessions
Library reference staff will visit your class on a day and time that suits you, and conduct a guidance session tailored to the content of your classes.
●Time: From 1st Period to 6th Period (100 minutes at maximum for one period)
●Date: It will be arranged on your preference.
●Content: How to search for materials on your research topic or academic information efficiently will be explained with demonstration. If you wish, students will have chance to explore practically how to search those information.
※We would really appreciate it if you could apply at least two weeks before the preferable date to best accommodate your request.
【List of Databases Available to be Explained in the Session】
| Objective | Database | Brief Description |
|---|---|---|
| Searching location of books and journals | RUNNERS OPAC | You can search for holdings of Ritsumeikan University Library and Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University Library. |
| NDL Search | You can search for holdings of National Diet Library and Oita Prefecture Library. | |
| Searching materials comprehensively | RUNNERS Discovery Service | You can search for books and journal articles comprehensively. |
| Accessing library web service | MyLibrary | You can check your lending and reservation status. You can also manage or apply for library services such as renewing, applying for Inter-Library-Loan. |
| Searching information using encyclopedia and dictionary | JapanKnowledge Lib | You can cross-search through many media such as dictionary and encyclopedias. |
| Oxford English Dictionary Online | This is online version of the『Oxford English Dictionary』. You can search the transition of the meaning and use of over 600,000 English words from the mid-11th century until today. | |
| Searching Japanese journal articles | CiNii Research | Academic articles can be searched. Some research bulletins can also be accessed in full-text form. |
| Searching foreign journal articles | ProQuest | ProQuest contains a lot of full-text journal articles from various field. |
| EBSCOhost | It enables you to search across multiple databases and on various theses and periodical fields can be made. | |
| Web of Science | It enables you to search major academic journal articles from overall field. | |
| JSTOR | You can search for journal articles of field of humanities and social science First issues are available. | |
| Searching Japanese newspaper articles | Nikkei Telecom 21 | You can search for 4 kinds of Nikkei newspaper articles. |
| Asahi Shimbun Cross-Search | You can search for Asahi newspaper articles. | |
| Searching foreign newspaper articles | Nexis Uni | Full-text of newspaper articles from over 350 newspaper companies all over the world, mainly in the United States, is available. |
| ProQuest | ProQuest contains many newspaper articles with full-text from various field. | |
| Accessing company financial information | Social Science Information Search | You can search for information about macroeconomics, business finance, and regional economy e.t.c. |
| Nikkei Telecom 21 | Macroeconomics statistics and region economics /city data can be searched. | |
| eol | Company’s disclosed information and annual reports can be found. |
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask at the APU Library Reference Counter.
Vendor Guidance
The library offers a training session on the library resources available to students for their research needs. We can invite the database suppliers to your classes as a lecturer.
Time: From 1st Period to 6th Period (100 minutes at maximum)
Date: It will be arranged on your preference.
※We would really appreciate it if you could apply at least two month before the preferable date to best accommodate your request.
※Please kindly note that the number of lectures from each supplier is being limited in an academic year.
【List of Databases Available to be Explained in the Session】
| Objective | Database | Brief Description | Language | Online Class Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company financial information / Stock | eol | It contains all the Yuhos for every publicly traded Japanese company | Only available in Japanese | × (Only face to face) |
| NEEDS Information Searching-System for Social-Sciences | Users may search for and download financial data from companies and financial institutions, domestic and international macroeconomics data, stocks and regional economic numerical data, all provided by Nikkei NEEDS (Nikkei Inc.). | Only available in Japanese | 〇 | |
| Business cases | SAGE Business Cases | It has 1,800 case studies with teaching notes from SAGE Publishing. The discipline-wide digital collection covers 16 subjects in business and management such as organization or marketing etc. | Japanese / English | 〇 |
| Academic journals | ProQuest | This full-text database contains 17,850 journal articles spanning every genre including the humanities, the social sciences and the natural sciences. | Japanese / English | 〇 |
| EBSCOhost | Searches across multiple databases and on various theses and periodical fields can be made. You can also use "Academic Search Premier" for an expansive look through over 8000 different journal divisions. | Japanese / English | 〇 |