FROM: Junko Morikawa, Library Director
TO: All Faculty Members
The library is accepting applications to use research funds to subscribe and cancel subscriptions to international journals that will be issued in 2025. If you are a current subscriber or wish to apply for a new subscription, please see below for details.
1. Application Period
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 to Friday, June 28, 2024*
*Please note that the registration period is earlier than in previous years.
2. Procedures
Please log in to the Tokyo Tech Portal to make an application.
(1) Budget Administrators (those who have a budget code for the library), and faculty or staff who have been approved to make applications on behalf of Budget Administrators can use the service online. People who wish to be appointed as a proxy to handle the Online Request must apply in advance through T2APPs. Application to appoint a proxy must be submitted every fiscal year. Even if you submitted this form last year, a new one must be submitted for this fiscal year.
* T2APPs Library Services Registration Manual
If you do not have access to T2APPs, please submit "Registration for contact information and Application for online services at public expense".
(2) User Guides
3. Where to Submit Printed Form
Information Management Group, Library Division, Research Promotion Department
Mail-Box: L-1
4. Notes
(1) The journal price increases 5-10% constantly every year. In addition, depending on the exchange rate movement, the price converted into yen may rise further. (Every year, subscriptions to international journals are ordered in October. For this reason, the exchange rate in October is used for bills.) Further, due to the tax system revision in FY 2015, subscriptions to e-journals published by foreign publishers have been taxed from 2016. Please note that if the print subscription includes the price of online access, you might be charged with consumption tax. Please give this due consideration before deciding to subscribe to a journal.
(2) Please be aware that subscriptions cannot be canceled or added after the purchase orders are sent to the subscription agency.
(3) If you plan to retire or leave Tokyo Tech during FY 2024, please make sure you submit the necessary applications during this application period to cancel any ongoing subscriptions.
(4) Please contact us immediately if your affiliation or other relevant personal information changes after submitting your applications.
(5)If you wish to apply for electronic versions of new journals (e-journals), please indicate so in the comments section. However the subscription fee for the electronic version may be higher than the subscription fee for the print version.
(6)If your subscription titles are e-journals, the price of e-journals may increase significantly due to the increase in the number of campuses and members as a result of university consolidation. In this case, we will notify you individually as soon as possible.