Library online service will be unavailable due to Network Expansion as planned below.

We apologize for any inconveniences.

Date & Time:

・2/12（Sat.）11:30-13:00

・3/7（Mon.） 18:30-24:30

Service to suspend:

・My OPAC service such as loan period extension or reservation and delivery request and so on.

・Access to E-jornals & Databases.

For details, please see the ICT Office Homepage.

Tomorrow's service hours (Central Library, Law School Library, and Mejiro Seibo Campus Library) will change as below.

We apologize for the inconvenience, and appreciate your cooperation.

  〔Change Date〕 Thursday, February 10.

     Service hours（including use of PC room）：9:00-18:00

     ※However, the Central Library is open from 9:00 to 20:00 as usual.

At a time of weather warning, the service may stop even during opening hours.

Please check the service schedule for the weather warning announcement on the Library Homepage.

Due date of the Library book material for students who expect to gradute in March, 2022 is March 10, 2022.  Please be sure to return until the return due date.

The students who have already decided to postpone their graduation, please consult the Library Circulation Counter or email from Sophia Mail to the address below by March 10. （lib-info@sophia.ac.jp）.

To whom having overdue books by the day when graduation decided, Official Transcript might be not issued.

Applications received by December 21 will be processed by the end of the year.
Applications received after December 22 will be processed after January 5, 2022.

The other day, there was a fraudulent access of mass downloading to the database of the university contract. The database is an information asset that stores important data such as newspaper articles, journal articles or corporate data. Therefore, the companies that provide the database take individual security measures. Not only is the act of searching and downloading a large amount of data in a short period of time prohibited, but it may also lead to the misunderstanding that it is attacking the database.

The contents of terms of service and use conditions, etc. vary depending on the provider, but generally, the following acts are prohibited.

Any serious breach of these requirements will result in the online service(s) being interrupted not only for the individual but for the whole university system. All users are requested to refer to the contents of the User Regulations, Terms and Conditions, and User Agreement, etc., before accessing to such data.

1）Use for any purpose other than personal academic research and education
2）Reproduction and redistribution to a third person.
3）The thing which downloads a great deal of files together (Even manual is bad.)
4）Downloading material in a way that breaches copyrights, such as downloading entire volumes or issues or revising downloaded materials