Kyoto University Libraries Reference Guide■ How to use KULINE
Tips on searching
What is KULINE？
KULINE is the online catalog where you can find books and journals held in all the libraries in Kyoto University.
Let’s learn how to use KULINE (Kyoto University Libraries Information NEtwork system) to enjoy the libraries.
The Kyoto University Library Network http://www.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/⇒ KULINE http://kuline.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
When you have some troubles
or you want to know how tosearch KULINE, please refer tothe “Help”. You can also see it byclicking
on each page.

1You can check Textbooks, NewArrivals, Borrowed Ranking,and so on from here.

Point 1 : Search various materials by choosing six tabs
①KU SearchBooks, journals, e-journals, e-books, rare books and dissertations that Kyoto University holds.

②Articles

Academic articles or papers and other similar kinds of materials from various e-journals and databases.

③

Rare Books

Rare books and images.

④

Other Univ.

Books and journals that other Japanese university libraries hold.

⑤Cross SearchMaterials held by National Diet Library and universities, public libraries in vicinity and book stores.

⑥KURENAI

Peer-reviewed journal articles, dissertations, departmental bulletin papers and any kind of scholarly works of Kyoto Univ.

How to search books① The easiest way to search Kyoto University OPAC is to input the title and the author of the item you arelooking for on the “Basic Search” at the “KU Search” tab. Then, just click
to begin the search.
Exercise： Search the book
“Zen no kenkyū (An inquiry into the good)”by Nishida KitaroTips 1: When you search by keyword

BYou don’t need to input the whole title or whole author of theitem you are looking for. Input keywords, separating eachwith a space. (This is “AND Search”.) If you can’t find theitem, try to change your keywords.
Please note articles and conjunctions will automatically beCignored (for example, “the”, “of”, “and”, “le”, “über”, “für” ).
By using the “Advanced Search”, you can specify search
conditions.
A Material types, for example “Ejournals”.
B Holding libraries
C The year of publication
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■ How to use KULINE② The result of your search will be displayed. Click the item you are looking for.

Point 3 : Search results
Point 2 : Refine your search
You can refine your search by “Material Type”, “Holding Library”,“Author”, “Publication Year”, “Subject”, and so on.

2You can choose “Simple Display” or“Details Display”. On “Details Display”,
holding libraries are displayed up totwo libraries. Moreover, you can sortout the results, by year of publicationand so on.

3▲”Simple Display”
Search terms are highlighted in yellow.

Point 5 : Check the Bibliography Details
If you click the book title you are looking for, then,“Bibliography Details” is displayed.
Please confirm on the “Holdings List” where thelibraries shelve the book.

BA
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A Holdings List : When you click “Library”, you canconfirm information about the library, for example,
the opening hours. “Location” displays the floor map.

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B Related Information : Search related information,or other Online Catalogs, for example, NDL Search.
Moreover, you can request copy or loan from here.
☞ Reference Guide “Guide to Interlibrary Loan

Services ” (Japanese Only)

C Bibliography Details : By clicking each links,“classification”, “subject” “author” field, you can search
the books by the same author, or the books classified in
the same category.

Point 4: Check the Holdings①Library, ②Location, ③Call No are very important information
when you wish to borrow this item. Please be sure to write it down.
If others have borrowed the item, the “Status” field will display“Loaned out”, and you can reserve the item through MyKULINE.

C*When you use MyKULINE, ECS-ID or SPS-ID is needed.
☞ Reference Guide “How to use MyKULINE -Book Renewal & Reservation-”Ver.2.3, 2017.3.24, Kyoto University Libarary Network
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How to search journals and E-journals
Exercise：Search the journal “American scientist”Vol.98,No.5 (2010)
When you search journals at the “KU Search” tab, please note you don’t input article title or author, but journal title!!

A. Serials Holdings List

If you submit the alert of the accession
continuing journal, you get an e-mail when
the library gets the new volume.
☞Reference Guide “How to use MyKULINE-New Arrival Alert & My folder-”AFour libraries shelve this journal, but
only the Main Library and the libraryof Yukawa Institute for Theoretical
Physics, shelve “Vol.98, No.5”.

B. E-Journals / E-Books
If the publication year of the article
that you are looking for, is included
here, then click the link and on thefollowing window, enter your ECS-ID
or SPS-ID and password to access to
the E-Journals or E-Books.

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C. When you want to find
E-Resources
When you click the,you can confirm the availability of thejournal.
☞ Reference Guide “How to use KU
Article Linker”

E-Journals are available on the web.
If you click the second link, you can access to thejournal from1995-11-01 to the present.

Point 6 : Serials Holdings

Because journals continue to be published, the title canbe changed and the journal can be absorbed by anotherjournal. You can confirm the “continuing journal” and“continued journal” of the “Related titles” field

1-3, 6
All numbers from volumes 1 to 3 and 6
are held, while volumes 4 and 5 arelacking.
2( )-5( )Some numbers are lacking.
However volumes 2 to 5 are held.
23-56, 57(1-5)+
All volumes from 23 are held.
A “+” sign means the journal continues
to be accepted.

Other SearchUntil the browser is closed, you can confirm“Browsing History” and “Search History”.
You can export the bibliographical data toe-mail, bibliographical management tool,(e.g. RefWorks) and so on.

While inputting keywords, KULINE shows alist of materials whose names begin with theentered characters.
3You can also perform search bycombining search conditions.

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Tips 2 : How to use the retrieval sign
When you combine various retrieval signs with others, you can create a more efficient search.
Please utilize this technique if you want to narrow down the search result or make a broad search.

“＊” (star key) Forward match search
When you search words like “Japan” or “Japanese”, you should input “Japan*”. Generally, if you search in Western languages, forexample English, you should omit the “s” at the end of word and make a broad search.
(e.g.) T. Matsuzawa, The Ai project: historical and ecological contexts, Anim. Cogn.6 (2003), pp. 199–211.
In this case, you can see the journal title is “Anim. Cogn.” from bibliography. This is an abbreviation.
So, you should input “Anim* Cogn*” and limit your search to journal material, because it is too difficult to narrow down the search result.
If you cannot see the journal title… ☞ Reference Guide “How to read the reference list”.

“#” (pound sign) Exact match search
When you want the search result by keywords which exactly match the title and author, you should input “#” in front of the keyword.
For example, when you search the journal “Science”, the number of result is too great and too difficult to narrow down.
So, you get the result which exactly matches the title when you input “#science”.
When you want to search all books by the author “Nishida Kitaro”, input “#nishida kitaro*” in the author field of advanced search.

Tips 3 : Can Japanese material be searched only by the roman alphabet?
When you search something with the roman alphabet, you would add the “$” to the header of search key value that you want tosearch. Alphabet search values are automatically converted into katakana, and a search is performed using the converted searchvalues.
(e.g.) If you input “$genji”, then it will return the same search results with the key value “ゲンジ” (katakana:genji).

If you cannot find the item when you searching by KULINE

Try to search again with different keyword to search.
First, change the keyword. For example, search the author or decrease the number of words.
Possibly you have the wrong bibliographic information. If you use the forward match search key “＊”, you canmake a broad search and find the correct bibliographic information.

Is the item you are searching for published before 1985?
Some of the items which were accepted by Kyoto University before 1985 cannot be searched in this way.
So, you may search the card catalog on the 3rd floor of the main library.

Items which you cannot search through KULINE

Some journals in Chinese and Korean.
Newspapers which continue to be accepted and held for a few years (You can confirm the newspaper list on the HP.)
Some books which were accepted by Kyoto University Library before 1985
(All libraries at Kyoto University continue to input date into KULINE. )Search the online catalogs of Kyoto Prefectural Library or Kyoto City Library.
Both libraries publish them on the Web.
Union catalog database of all public libraries in Kyoto Prefecture is below.
http://www.library.pref.kyoto.jp/klibnet/

Search other universities’ catalog by KULINE “Other Univ.” “Cross Search” or NII “CiNii Books”.
CiNii Books is a service that enables you tosearch information of books and journals heldin university libraries in Japan.
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/books/?l=en
You can request articles or books found at otheruniversities through Kyoto University Libraryfor a fee.

If you have any questions, concerns or requests about KULINE…
Please ask the Reference Desk at the main library on the 1st floor.
Email : ref660@mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp
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