A-Z Databases

A Student’s Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese Online is the Chinese-English resource of choice for all those reading Chinese texts from the period of approx. 500 BCE to 1000 CE.

Oxford’s Very Short Introductions (VSI) series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, new insights, and enthusiasm to make often challenging topics highly readable to develop a reader’s core knowledge. SOAS library collection holds 554 titles in this series.
This is the link to A Very short introduction podcast
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3MAPgqN8JWhDt2ok5zoOotd7t9xUjccO

This database encompasses a selection of academic disciplines, offering access to 1,329 active full-text journals, along with abstracted and indexed journals

Access World News is a web-based news resource featuring more than 1000 newspapers from around the world. Updated daily, it includes both current and archived content.

Africa Bibliography is an authoritative guide to works in African studies published under the auspices of the International African Institute annually since 1984.

Africa Confidential is one of the longest-established specialist publications on Africa, with a considerable reputation for being first with in-depth news and analysis on significant political, economic and security developments across the continent.

Covers major domestic political developments, foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Saharan Africa.

A collection of over 40 Africa related databases; including: Databases include Index to South African Periodicals, Ibiscus, Media Africa, and NAMLIT.
Index only database, no full text available.

African Newspapers, Series 1 and 2, 1800-1925, offers unmatched coverage of the people, issues and events that shaped the continent during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring titles from Algeria to Angola, Zambia to Zimbabwe, this unique resource chronicles the evolution of Africa through eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative information, letters, poetry, advertisements, obituaries and other items. Together, African Newspapers, Series 1 and 2, provide news and perspectives from a wide range of counties and cultures during a time of sweeping change.

African Newspapers: The British Library Collection features nearly 60 newspapers from across the African continent, all published before 1900. Originally archived by the British Library—the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the largest and most respected libraries in the world—these rare historical documents are now available for the first time in a fully searchable online collection. From culture to history to geopolitics, the pages of these newspapers offer fresh research opportunities for students and scholars interested in topics related to Africa.

Contains over 1800 entries covering guides and resources for African Studies. Many entries describe and evaluate resources and many link directly to the internet.

Afrobarometer is an independent, non-partisan research project that regularly measures the social, political, and economic atmosphere in more than 30 African countries.

Over thousands Chinese ebook provided from Taiwan Airiti. You are able to preview up to 10% of each book from iRead eBook webpage.

The Al-Ahram digital archive provides a comprehensive collection of this 1875-founded Arabic newspaper, including such features as full page-level digitization, complete original graphics, and searchable text.

AllAfrica.com is an Africa related news archive; with content from over 100 media organizations.

Full-text access to 32 anthropology journals published by the American Anthropological Association.

The first wave of the Arab Barometer began in 2006/07 with the first round of surveys administered in seven countries. An eighth country was surveyed in 2009.The eight countries included in the first round of the Arab Barometer are Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, Bahrain, Algeria, Kuwait, Lebanon, and Yemen. In 2010/11, second wave Arab Barometer surveys were conducted in eleven Arab countries. Although it was not possible to conduct a second wave survey in Kuwait and Bahrain, five new countries were added to the Arab Barometer. The second wave of the Arab Barometer thus included surveys in Algeria, Morocco, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iraq, Tunisia, and Egypt. The third wave of the Arab Barometer was released in 2014. Countries included in this wave are Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Sudan, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq.

A varied array of records of traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats, from the mid-seventeenth century to the late twentieth century, offering Western perspectives on all aspects of Chinese culture and society.

Full-text plus abstracts and indexing of an international range of Art related journals.

The Art Sales Catalogues Online (ASCO) publication offers easy access to complete historical art sales catalogues for the period 1600 to 1900. Lugt's Répertoire Online database has been included in this publication and serves as the "entrance gate" to the catalogues. The content is being updated every year. For User guide, please check link https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/ASCO-User-Guide.pdf

Index covering the core scholarly journals for arts and humanities; covering over 1,144 journals. Accessed via the Web of Science/Knowledge.

"KIKUZOU II Visual" is renewed as "Asahi Shimbun Cross-Search." It is the largest newspaper article database in Japan. This database contains full-text articles from the Asahi Shimbun ( 朝日新聞, since 1945), AERA weekly magazine (since 1988), Shukan Asahi weekly magazine, an annual new-word dictionary Chiezō, Who’s Who Database, and Historical Photo Archive.
Limited access for 3 users at the time among 5 consortium member libraries

The Asian Barometer Survey (ABS) is an applied research program that aims to gauge public opinion on issues such as political values, democracy, and governance across Asia. Our regional survey network encompasses research teams from 13 East Asian states (Japan, Mongolia, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia), and 5 South Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal).

This database provides access to more than 60 of the most respected national and regional sources of news and current affairs information in Asia and the Far East.

Arab World Research Source is a dedicated resource of scholarly journals, quality magazines, trade publications, industry profiles, country reports, market research reports and conference papers published in the Arab World and/or about the Arab World. The database offers full text for over 300 full text publications, including nearly 200 scholarly journals, as well as 85 full text titles in Arabic Language. This resources reaches across all major subject disciplines, including business, economics, science, technology, humanities and sociology, and includes key publications from renowned universities in the Arab World.

Index of Western language monographs, journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, and anthologies on all parts of Asia published since 1971.
Abstracts and index only, no full text available.

Bridgeman education is an online educational image resource to use in learning, teaching and scholarly research. Available on and off campus to SOAS students and staff only.

Access to reference works: Brill's New Pauly, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, Encyclopaedia of Early Christianity, Encyclopaedia of Islam, Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Encyclopaedia of Judaism, Encyclopedia of Sikhism, Encyclopedia of Taiwan Studies Online and Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān.

The Archive of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) and connected collections from UK universities covers astronomy, biology, technology, industrial design, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, agriculture, meteorology, physics, history of science and STEM, and government grants for scientific research. It contains administrative records, correspondence, illustrations, manuscripts, photographs, prototypes, clippings, personal papers, grey literature - all presented as fully searchable digital images that can be analyzed, downloaded, manipulated, and compared with content from other societies and universities in the Wiley Digital Archives programme.

This online publication is the English translation of Brockelmann's famous Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL). Brockelmann's work offers bio-bibliographic information about works written in Arabic and their authors, with an emphasis on the classical period.

Bungei Kurabu (文芸倶楽部) is Hakubunkan's flagship literary magazine.
It is an important resource for modern Japanese studies from modern literature to fine art, theater, rakugo, and social customs.
The 284 issues are made available here are those released during the period running from January 1895 (Meiji 28) - December 1912 (Taisho 1)

Bungei Shunjū is regarded as one of the most popular and influential literary magazines in Japan. This Archives provide full-texts of 323 issues between January 1, 1923 (Taisho 12) to December 1, 1950 (Showa 25). Around 90,000 pages of essays, fiction, and articles by over 4,000 authors and contributors are available. You can search headlines in article titles, publication, year and month, author and the body of articles.

You can access this database via the Senate House Library if you are SOAS staff or student, just make sure to have a library membership https://senatehouselibrary.libguides.com/remote-registration

Access to 500+ e-books from Cambridge University Press and access to over 200 scholarly journals with bibliographic information and abstracts; also provides full-text access, free-of-charge, where SOAS subscribes to the journal.

Cambridge Histories Online (CHO) provides access to the complete Cambridge Histories series, and some titles in the New Cambridge Histories series, comprising 270 volumes in all, published since 1960 and covering over 15 different disciplines.

Statistics from the UK censuses help paint a picture of the nation and how we live. They provide a detailed snapshot of the population and its characteristics and underpin funding allocation to provide public services.

Full-text access to over 1,000 Chinese language journals; in the subscribed series: Literature/History/Philosophy (F), Politics/Military affairs/Law (G), Education/Social Sciences (H) and Economics (J). Full-text is available to subscribed content. A small percentage of the articles are images which can be converted to text-based articles by using the OCR button. Bibliographic citations are available free of charge for the entire CNKI database. Access is limited to 3 users at time

Masters theses (1999-2012) and doctoral dissertations (2000-2012). Access is limited to 3 external users at a time using a particular computer in the library premises. SOAS students and staff only from computers off-campus. Access limited to 3 users at a time.

These reports feature exclusive research and analysis by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and authors from similar institutions, and present objective analysis versus official government messaging on strategic issues. Covered topics include a variety of issues of importance to China's government and research community, including international relations, agricultural policy, and industry competitiveness. Includes current year data only.

The China-Global South Project (CGSP), formerly known as The China Africa Project, is a non-profit independent multimedia organization dedicated to exploring every aspect of China’s engagement with Africa.

China Maxx is the European mirror site of Superstar Digital Library (超星数字图书馆). It is a full-text database of e-books purchased from China. Titles such as: 四库全书存目, 四库禁毁书丛刊，四库未收书刊辑 totalled 2,000 volumes, are in the database. Four early twenty century periodicals such as 新青年 & 妇女杂志，are also included. Important Chinese culture and historical data, such as上海市文史资料，山东省文史资料 & 北京文史资料 in 1, 700 volumes together with over 200 volumes ebooks have been purchased. Internet Explorer browser required and Simplified Chinese GB code.

China on Film features an exciting selection of documentary and actuality film footage from the British Film Institute, filmed through the eyes of predominantly Western travellers. Through a combination of amateur films, travelogues and newsreels, this resource provides a unique perspective on both everyday life and some of the key events of modern Chinese history.
This trial is available until 20 May 2025
Please send any feedback to Anthony Ho (ah145@soas.ac.uk)

Based upon manuscript sources from SOAS Library Special Collections and and the British Library, this database provides access to a variety of original source material detailing China’s interaction with the West from 1793 to 1980.

Over thousands Chinese ebook you are able to preview for free from CNKI webpage. To access our purchased ebooks please click "My library"

Consists of theses and dissertations information from Taiwan higher education institutions after 2004. At present, this database contains theses and dissertations mainly from Taiwan universities, including National Taiwan University, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei National University of the Arts, National Tsing Hua University and National Taiwan Normal University, with over 27,000 bibliographic citations and 16,500 theses in full text. Subject coverage includes humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, applied sciences, medicine and life sciences. The best result is gained by searching with terms in traditional Chinese. All articles are available in PDF format so you will need Acrobat Reader version 5.X

Provides bibliographical citations for Japanese scholarly journals published in Japan as well as access to full-text articles and dissertations. More information and user guide via this link: https://support.nii.ac.jp/en/cir/manual_outline

This database contains about 480 handwritten materials by more than 60 writers who have led the modern Japanese literature, such as Kyoshi Takahama, Soseki Natsume, Ogai Mori, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Shiki Masaoka, Haruo Sato, and Takashi Nagatsuka. The original materials are held by Kyoshi Memorial Museum. The database also includes handwritten letters, postcards, illustrations and the final chapter of Soseki Natsume's "I Am a Cat" It is a valuable historical material that allows users to see the lively modern Japanese literary scene

Collection of Magazines on Japanese Mass Entertainment and Sexual Customs (1950s - 70s)Database offers cross-sectional access to potentially around 430 popular entertainment / adult magazines published between the 1950s and 1970s.
Following the WWII, new popular entertainment magazines called the "Kasutori zasshi" (named after a cheap liquor, a magazine printed on cheap, low-quality paper) appeared in Japan to meet the needs of people who developed a certain carefree attitude with a emerging post war culture in Japan shirking traditional conservative Japanese values in favour of liberation and hedonism. Diverse in content, their pages include academic treatises, essays, reader letters and personal ads, encompassing subjects from novels, performing arts and movie information, to same-sex love, cross-dressing, and sado-masochism, as well as a great deal of reporting, maps etc. covering entertainment districts across Japan, "red-line zones"
Magazines can be viewed by title, number, and date of publication, and also searched by article title, writer, publisher etc., allowing ready access to thousands of articles. A magazine archive that fills a gap in the historical record, and a database that will open up new horizons in fields from gender and sexuality, to modern history, modern literature, publishing history, and more.

Please check user guide at https://j-dac.jp/shakaibunka/shakaibunka_usage.pdf

Indexing for over 1000 journals, with 300+ in full-text; covering communication, mass media, and other related fields. Some titles date as far back as 1915; but most cover the current 10 years.

Archives Direct is a suite of collections sourced from The National Archives, Kew - the UK government's official archive. The Confidential Print series originated out of a need for the Government to preserve all of the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices since 1820’s.

Published from Tokyo under Japanese editorship before, during, and after WWII (1932 - 1954), Contemporary Japan is unique in its even-handed treatment of the Japanese view. Described as 'a relative beacon of rationality in chaotic and confusing times', Contemporary Japan was published by the semi-official Foreign Affairs Association of Japan

It is a digital archive as well as an art magazine dedicated to build knowledge in the visual arts in India and South Asia. Its purview is from ancient Indian art to the present as it covers early, medieval, modern and contemporary practices in India. Over 30,000 words of archival and current writing to be updated Each month. Further information is available from the http://www.criticalcollective. in/Contact.aspx

A collection of 7,000 periodicals, 130,000 issues and 1.3 million articles, which were published from 1840 to 1949 in mainland China. Many of the periodicals are rare and unique during late Qing Dynas. Most journals may not have the complete run of issues. Subjects covered include philosophy, economic, politics, military, industry, agriculture, transportation, literature ,history, geography , astronomy and astrology.

Korean language database of 1,200 scholarly journals covering a wide range of subjects including humanities, social sciences, and engineering. Dates cover First issue to the most recent issue. First issue to the most recent issue.

Provides full-text access to a number of collections of pre-modern writings, including the Daozang 道藏, Daozang jiyao 道藏輯要, Sibu congkan 四部叢刊, Xu sibu congkan 續四部叢刊, Yongle dadian 永樂大典, and Siku quanshu 四庫全書.

This resource comprises both the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (DDB) and the CJKV-English dictionary (CJKV-E) for Sinitic characters and compounds related to East Asian cultural, political and intellectual history.

Is the most comprehensive digital collection of Confucian texts, featuring more than 500 carefully selected works, including heirloom classics and excavated manuscripts.  With high-quality editions, scholarly notes, and advanced search and annotation tools, it offers over 200 million characters of uniformly punctuated content for easy reading, research, and export.

Trial available until 28th November
Please send feedback to Anthony Ho via ah145@soas.ac.uk

Created in collaboration with the National Security Archive, this database is the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945.

Duxiu 读秀 covers Chinese publications from the early 1930s to the present. It retrieves content from various formats including Chinese ebooks.

Access to over 44,000 electronic books covering Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences subjects. SOAS students and staff only.

Access to over 10,000 e-journals on a wide range of subjects. Includes specialist databases for business & economics, media, languages and social sciences.

EconLit (Economic Literature Index) is an index of journal articles, books, dissertations and conference papers, relating to economics. Plus full text for more than 500 journals.

The Economic and Political Weekly, published from Mumbai, is an Indian institution which enjoys a global reputation for excellence in independent scholarship and critical inquiry.

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Founded in 1919, El Mundo was a respected, conservative newspaper from Puerto Rico and was widely considered a key source for news until it ceased in 1990.

The Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Online (EALL Online) comprehensively covers all aspects of Arabic languages and linguistics and deals with all levels of the language (pre-Classical Arabic, Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic vernaculars, mixed varieties of Arabic).

The Encyclopedia introduces the multifaceted aspects of Taiwan’s past and present in almost 600 entries, authored by more than 300 worldwide scholars who are experts in the archaeology, history, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, political science, international relations, Indigenous studies, literature, gender studies, media studies, cinema and documentary, music, and art of Taiwan.

The largest resource for the visual study of human culture and behavior. Over 1200 streaming films. Global in scope, it contains footage from every continent and hundreds of unique cultures, and is particularly rich in its coverage of the developing world.

Eurobarometer (EB) survey series is a unique programme of cross-national and cross-temporal comparative social science research. Since the early seventies representative national samples in all European Union (EU) (formerly the European Community (EC)) member states have been simultaneously interviewed in the spring and autumn of each year.

The European Values Surveys and World Values Surveys series was designed to enable a cross-national, cross-cultural comparison of values and norms on a wide variety of topics and to monitor changes in values and attitudes across the globe.

EventStudyTools helps you perform event studies and news analytics analyses. Its research apps calculate for you all metrics needed for scientific publications - be it for return, volume, or volatility event studies focussed on single or multiple events.
You can access the research apps online on this website or locally via an R-package and application programming interface (API) .
The EventStudyTools website further provides reviews of corresponding academic literature, access to event study experts, and ideas on meaningful academic and business applications.

Full, unlimited access to FT.com through desktop and mobile devices, with 60% more content than the print newspaper, and access to the FT online archive. Please note FT.com terms of use https://help.ft.com/help/legal/education-licence-terms-and-conditions-20180503/, in particular, section 4 on use of content and IPRs. FT.com content should not be copied and pasted, forwarded or downloaded. Only links to articles should be shared

Provides in-depth macroeconomic and industry analysis for 200 global markets. Can be used to access credit ratings, credit research, global fundamental data, country and industry research, macroeconomic and industry data. Data and reports are available for entities from around the world, with the option to create and download portfolios based on your research interests. Also provides the most comprehensive bank financial data sets available in the market with up to 30 years’ worth of historical data on over 30,000 banks worldwide. To access, click on the 'Single Sign-On' option and enter SOAS as the organization ID.

Foreign Affairs is a multimedia platform published by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR); a non-profit membership organization dedicated to improving the understanding of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs through the free exchange of ideas. The articles in Foreign Affairs deal with questions of international interest today while covering a broad range of subjects - offering not only political perspectives but also historical and economic.

The United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence. Access to this database is via Access World News by clicking 'all databases' menu at the top of the page.

Foreign Policy is one of the world's leading online magazines for global politics, economics, and ideas. Contains a range of analysis, opinion, and reporting on international news and global trends.
There is no need to create an account just make sure to use the on or off-campus link to access it.

Updates, commentary, training and advice on immigration and asylum law. Limited access. Please contact electronic@soas.ac.uk for login details. Available to SOAS staff and students only.

The Funambulist is a digital and printed bimestrial magazine dedicated to examining the politics of space and bodies. To obtain a username and password e-mail electronic@soas.ac.uk

Access to online versions of the Encyclopedia of Buddhism and Encyclopedia of Religion.

This project represents the largest, most careful and systematic comparative survey of attitudes and values toward politics, power, reform, democracy and citizens' political actions in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Arabic region. It is based on a common module of questions contained in regional barometer surveys.

Comprehensive reference information for the world's languages, especially the lesser known languages.

If you're a Google Scholar user you can now add SOAS to your 'Library links' to include links to SOAS' subscription e-resources via check for full text.
We've also made a direct URL which will automatically include SOAS as one of your libraries and allow you to login direct off-campus to ensure seamless access to our subscriptions: SOAS Google Scholar

Bibliographic database covering environmental issues such as global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling.

The gateway to Oxford’s art reference works, including the peer-reviewed, regularly updated Grove Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Choose 'Log in via your home institution' for off-campus access.

First published in 1726 and with complete original text and illustrations, the 'Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China' 古今圖書集成 chronicles 5,000 years of Chinese art, literature, culture and science. Browse and search the entire 1934 edition--all 64 volumes--online in full text, every character (Chinese - full form).

A collection of Japanese literary classics and historical records dating from the late 9th century to the beginning of the Edo period (1600−1868). Subjects include art, geography, history, law, literature, music, politics, religion, and sociology.

Collection of full-text legal research including a law journal library of US and some UK and international titles, over 1,000 textbooks, and US primary materials.

The Heritage of the Printed Book Database (previously called the Hand Press Book Database) is a steadily growing collection of files of catalogue records from major European and North American research libraries covering items of European printing of the hand-press period (c.1455-c.1830) integrated into one file. This makes it possible for information to be retrieved in one single search across all files.

Hindi Cinema offers a unique insight into the film industry from the years 1950-2010 through the experiences of leading film-makers.
Trial available until 20 May 2025
Please send feedback to Farzana Qureshi (fq@soas.ac.uk)

Access to over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 onwards.

Access to International Monetary Fund (IMF): Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS), International Financial Statistics (IFS), Balance of Payment Statistics (BOPS), Government Finance Statistics (GFS) and World Economic Outlook (WEO).

From the first newspapers established by Peter the Great to the fall of the Romanovs, the Imperial Russian Newspapers collection chronicles 189 years of Russian history.

The Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers collection traces the evolution of Mexico during this pivotal period. Comprising nearly 1,000 titles from Mexico’s pre-independence, independence and revolutionary periods (1807-1929), the newspapers in this collection provide rare documentation of the dramatic events of this era and include coverage of Mexican partisan politics, yellow press, political and social satire, as well as local, regional, national and international news. While holdings of many of the newspapers in this collection are available only in very short runs, the titles are often unique and, in many cases, represent the only existing record of a newspaper’s short-lived publication.

Bibliographic database of books and journal articles published about Islam or the Muslim world since 1906.

A multilingual index to articles and book reviews appearing in approximately 540 legal journals published worldwide.

Access to over 30,000 journals, with bibliographic information and abstracts. Also provides full-text access, free-of-charge, where SOAS subscribes to the journal.

Bibliographic database covering the social science; with comprehensive coverage for Economics, Sociology, Politics and Anthropology.

Access to International Energy Agency data: CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion, Coal Information, Natural Gas Information, Electricity information, Oil Information, Energy Prices and Taxes, World Energy Statistics and Balances, Renewables Information, Energy Technology Research and Development Database.

The IMF eLibrary Text Collection has over 10,000 documents from 1951 onwards, including periodicals, books and working papers. Available to SOAS staff & students only, on or off-campus

Download data from the International Social Survey. Special topics have included: the environment; the role of government; social inequality; social support; family and gender issues; work orientation; the impact of religious background, behaviour and beliefs on social and political preferences; and national identity. Participating countries vary for each topical module.

Full-text version of English-language Japan Chronicle Weekly (1902 – 1940). Please, use either Firefox or Google Chrome web browser to access this resource.

An archive database of The Japan Times from March 1897 to December 2017.

The web version of The Japan Times covers 1999 to the present.

This Cambridge Archive Edition provides an extensive series of British diplomatic reports containing a continuous account of developments in Japanese history from 1906-1960. It is important to research on Japanese international relations, internal political and economic affairs and post-war civil and economic reconstruction.

A selection of major dictionaries and encyclopaedias, as well as databases for weekly journals and books etc. SOAS has access to the JapanKnowledge +NK.

Jeune Afrique was founded in 1960 in Tunis and subsequently published in Paris by Jeune Afrique Media Group. It is the most widely read Pan-African magazine offering coverage of African political, economic and cultural news.

The result of a JISC funded project the John Johnson Collection provides access to 65,000 items drawn from the Bodleian's John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera.

Access to 1000s of academic journals, as well as 12,000+ e-books from leading publishers such as Princeton University Press, Yale University Press, MIT Press, and Harvard University Press.

Kanopy is a video-streaming service giving access to over 8,000 award-winning documentaries, foreign language films, feature films and TV series. Subject coverage includes the Arts, Anthropology, History, Religion & Philosophy and Regional Studies.

KinoDen is a Japanese academic ebook service for libraries from Kinokuniya.
Use 検索 to search for books. Some of the titles in KinoDen have been purchased by SOAS. "未所蔵を含める" to include unpurchased titles. Untick "未所蔵を含める to ONLY see books purchased by SOAS.

Contains scholarly articles mainly in Korean, published in some 3,500 journals from 1,200 research institutions in Korea. Covers all subjects in social sciences, humanities and natural sciences.

Full text database covering a huge range of materials on international commercial arbitration including: major works, such as the Handbook on Commercial Arbitration & the Yearbook of Commercial Arbitration; over 100 books; 10 journals; international conventions; domestic legislation from around the world; Bilateral Investment Treaties; international & domestic case law; rules of international and domestic arbitration organisations.

A set of antiquarian books catalogs sent to customers by Sorimachi Shigeo, who founded the vintage bookstore “Kobunso (弘文荘)” in 1932. The catalogs are filled with detailed bibliographical information and a wealth of illustrations, making them a useful reference for philological and bibliographical studies.

The Korea Times is the oldest English daily newspaper published in South Korea which started in November 1950. This archival database provides all published content including advertisements from 1956 to 2016.

This comprehensive collection of facsimile documents contains all available diplomatic reports regarding Korea that are housed in the British National Archives from 1882 to 1970. The collection begins with the Korean monarchy, and includes the Japanese occupation, the post-1945 division of the peninsular into North and South Korea, the outbreak of the Korean War. The resulting 10,000 pages is an important piece of research which provides international relations between Russia, China, Japan, the Soviet Union and the USA in the twentieth century.

Full-text database of academic journals published in South Korea.

Korean language e-book database including reference resources (encyclopaedias, dictionaries, guidebooks, and bibliographies).

The Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers collection provides an invaluable perspective on this critical period. The press of more than twenty cities is represented, spanning the Chinese mainland and the entire half-century

Lexis Middle East Law is a legal database which contains a mixture of full text & summary coverage of legislation, case law, commentary & legal news from (in order of comprehensiveness): UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Dubai, Turkey, Bahrain, DIFC, Abu Dhabi, Egypt, Sharjah, QFC, Lebanon, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Morocco . Available to SOAS staff & students only. To obtain a username and password e-mail electronic@soas.ac.uk

A legal database provides access to selected full text case law, legislation and journal articles from the UK, EU, US and other selected jurisdictions. Also provides access to local and national UK newspapers.

Index covering the latest developments in the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.

LLMC Digital is available via the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Library by using your Senate House library membership details t o log in.

毎日新聞 (Mainichi Shinbun - The oldest Japanese newspaper covering 1872 to the present). The Mainichi (English newspaper archives covering June 2008 to present) . 毎日新聞 (Mainichi Shinbun - The oldest Japanese newspaper covering 1872 to present)
週刊エコノミスト (Shukan Ekonomisuto - Full text available from 1989 to present)
The Mainichi (English newspaper archives covering June 2008 to present)
毎日ヨロンサーチ (Japanese public opinion database covering October 1945-June 2016)
20世紀2001大事件 (Chronological tables of Japanese history in the 20th century arranged by topics and decade)

Dates covered
毎日新聞 (Japanese): March 1872 to the present.
The Mainichi (English): June 1989 to the present.

An online version of the print Encyclopedia of Public International Law that was published between 1991 and 2001. MPEPIL includes 1,700 articles and is searchable or can be browsed by subject/author.

MBC (Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation) is one of the leading South Korean television and radio broadcasting stations.
MBC Archive is an online service where users can access over 200,000 selected multimedia items consisting of TV & Radio programmes including daily news, entertainment shows, documentaries that were produced by MBC since its foundation in 1961.

A collection of manuscripts for the study of Meiji society, culture, ethnology and education from the papers of Edward Sylvester Morse (1838-1925). Edward Morse was one of the first American to live in Japan teaching science at the Imperial University of Tokyo. Morse made notes on subjects as diverse as shop signs, fireworks, hairpins, agricultural tools, artists’ studios, music, games, printing, carpentry, the Ainu, gardens, household construction, art and architecture. The collection includes correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, archaeology fieldwork and publications.

Mekong Review is a quarterly literary magazine focused on Asia and communities of Asian descent.

Japanese multidisciplinary eBook platform for academic and scholarly publications.
Provides search functions and access to eBooks, mostly in Japanese. English-language user guide available via this link https://elib.maruzen.co.jp/app/eguide/mel_manual_e.pdf
The number of pages that can be printed or downloaded per person/per title is displayed on the screen for each title.

Bibliographic database, which provides access to a wide range of material relating to the study of the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa.

From the Ottoman Empire to the Arab Spring, the countries of the Middle East and North Africa have stood at the crossroads of history. The Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers collection includes publications from across this dynamic region, providing unique insights into the history of individual countries, as well as broad viewpoints on key historic events from the late nineteenth century through the present.

Mideastwire.com offers a daily newsletter of concise, translated briefs into English from the Arabic and Persian media, including the top newspapers, some satellite TV and radio.

Set against a backdrop of colonial expansion, industrial progress and global conflict; Migration to New Worlds tells the stories of individuals and families who risked everything to build new lives in North America and Australasia between 1800 and 1980. This includes unique primary source diaries, correspondence, photographs, oral histories and journals narrate the vivid realities of ocean travel and life in adopted homelands. Organisational correspondence, government proceedings, shipping company papers and records of advocacy groups provide key context to migrants’ everyday struggles.

The Mint is the magazine for Promoting Economic Pluralism (PEP), a registered charity set up in 2016 to open up economics education, research and application to a broader range of perspectives. The Mint provides a space for a range of perspectives on understanding economies presented in an engaging and accessible format which is generally absent from journal articles due to the requirements of that format. Please follow the on/off campus link and register your account using the SOAS email address.

Mobilizing East Asia offers a selected range of essential English-language newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and books published in East and South-East Asia from the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s. Content includes developments in 1930's Manchuria, the Second World War years in Japan and China, the communist revolution in China and its aftermath, and the nascent Cold War. Please, use either Firefox or Google Chrome web browser to access this resource.

Full-text online version of the 10 volume work on world music; with more than 9,000 pages of material and 300 audio recordings, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world.

Full text access to working papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

The database is an exclusive collection of the census data from all the provinces and counties and centrally administered municipalities. Content coverage includes: name, gender, age, nationality, permanent residence registration, education level, industry, occupation, social security, marriage, birth, death, housing, migration, etc.
Trial available until 26 May 2024
Please send any feedback to Anthony Ho (ah145@soas.ac.uk)

Newspaper database. A digital archive for Tonga ilbo[東亞日報], Kyŏnghyang sinmun [京鄕新聞] and Maeil kyŏngje sinmun [每日經濟新聞].

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Japanese news and business information, containing Nihon Keizai Shinbun (日本経済新聞) since 1876, company profiles and financial information, and personnel information. Nikkei English News and Nikkei Asian Review from [スペシャルコンテンツ].
Access for one user only at a time. 6 pm JST to 5 am JST (23 hours a day)

News website about North Korea.

News and data analysis tools including the North Korea Leadership Tracker, the Ship Tracker, Leading Indicators and KCNA Watch (Rodong Sinmun, Pyongyang Times, Naenara News. Uriminzokkiri periodicals, and charts and data).

Full-text version of the North China Herald from 1850-1940. Please, use either Firefox or Google Chrome web browser to access this resource.

Access to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): Education Statistics, Globalisation, Main Economic Indicators, Main Science and Technology Indicators, Quarterly Labour Force Statistics, Social Expenditure Database, International Development, International Direct Investment Statistics, International Migration Statistics, International Trade by Commodities Statistics, Services Statistics, National Accounts, STructural Analysis Database.

Overton is the world’s largest collection of policy documents, parliamentary transcripts, government guidance and think tank research. We collect data globally from 180+ countries and in many different languages. There are over 5.5M documents indexed in Overton, and hundreds of new documents are added each day. Please click the link to create your account.

Combining a research-level encyclopedia and the traditional bibliography. The bibliography includes selective lists of citations to useful print and online resources as well as narrative guides.

You can access this database via the Senate House Library if you are SOAS staff or student, just make sure to have a library membership https://senatehouselibrary.libguides.com/remote-registration

The collection aims to cover all major fields and sub-fields of contemporary research into Classical and ancient Mediterranean culture, including new and developing areas of study such as material culture, the sciences, engineering and technology, reception studies, and gender studies, as well as epigraphy, papyrology and art and architecture, Of particular interest to SOAS students and staff will be volumes on Cuneiform cultures, the Byzantine empire, classical Chinese literature, Jewish studies, the Hellenic Age and Roman-era Palestine

The Oxford Handbooks Online (History Collection) aims to cover the whole scope of global history from medieval times to the Cold War encompassing diverse themes and methodologies. This is an ongoing series, with further volumes planned and updates and additions being made to existing Handbooks and selected essays appearing in advance of volume publication. This is a very active and evolving research collection

The Oxford Handbooks Law Collection 2015, 2016 and 2017 series brings together the world’s leading scholars to write articles that survey the current state of scholarship in their field. The articles review the key issues, reveal original arguments and concepts, and set the agenda for new research.

Access to a range of journals, with bibliographic information and abstracts. Also provides full-text access, free of charge, where SOAS subscribes to the journal.

Currently featuring over 130,000 words and phrases and 200,000 translations from the Oxford Arabic Dictionary, plus extra tools and resources such as tables of Arabic verb conjugations, full forms of Arabic numbers, dates, and years. Vowels in all Arabic text help non-Arabic speakers in pronunciation and comprehension.This up-to-date resource has been designed for both Arabic and English native speakers and includes the latest vocabulary from computing, business, the media, and the arts, across both languages.

Currently featuring over 220,000 words, phrases, and translations from the Pocket Oxford Chinese Dictionary (Third edition), plus tools and resources

Oxford Law Pro is a collection of peer-reviewed books and journals from Oxford University Press. It includes an AI Research Assistant and Expert Essentials articles, which provide context about critical topics impacting legal practice.

Collection of music reference works; including The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online and The Oxford Companion to Music.

Oxford Reports on International law brings together a wider range of cases with expert analysis and commentary. It contains coverage of International courts and tribunals, Domestic courts and International ad hoc tribunals.

Peer-reviewed online research encyclopedia covering all areas of African history. Regularly updated it provides a comprehensive overview of each subject, as well as a brief historiography and cites both primary and secondary resources.

Pakistanlawsite.com is the Pakistan Law Site, an online database of the law of Pakistan from PLD Publishers in Lahore. It presents statutes, rules and cases relating to Pakistan, both federal and provincial. For user id and password e-mail electronic@soas.ac.uk (SOAS staff and students only).

The Philosophy in the Islamic World Online is a comprehensive reference work devoted to the history of philosophy in the realms of Islam. The first volume of the series tackles the history of philosophy in the Islamicate world in its formative period: from its beginnings in the 8th century up to the 10th century AD.

PhilPapers is a comprehensive index of philosophy books and articles. PhilPapers offers unique features such as real-time indexing of pre-prints, fine-grained classification by topic, email alerts, reading lists, advanced search functionality, and discussion forums.

English translations of Chinese laws and regulations, judicial cases, legal news and gazettes.

The world's most comprehensive policy database, with over 17 million reports from 41,000 think tanks, agencies, governments, and cities. The database includes:
Global Think Tanks
North American City Reports
Public Health and Social Care
World Cities
World Governments
The trial is available until 30 April 2025
Any feedback please send to Dawn Wright via dw3@soas.ac.uk

Practical Action database is a specialist peer-reviewed and evidence-based book and journal database for all those involved in International Development. Comprised of over 700 policy, practice, and research publications that stimulate discussion, strengthen people’s capabilities, and promote sustainable change it is one of the most comprehensive online databases currently available.

A collection of 654 digitised books based on the bibliography by John Lust of all early western books on China to be found in SOAS Library.

Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. Since 1995 the MUSE journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide.

Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. Since 1995 the MUSE journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide.

Via ProQuest platform you can search 15 databases all at once, these are Asian Newsstream, British Periodicals Full Text Included‎(1681 - 1939), Coronavirus Research Database, Digital National Security Archive, Ebook Central, The Far Eastern Economic Review Archive ‎(1946 - 2009), International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) ‎(1951 - current), John Johnson Collection, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) ‎(1973 - current), Periodicals Archive Online Full Text Included‎, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Jerusalem Post Full Text Included‎(1932 - 2008), ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Korea Times ‎(1956 - 2016), ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Times of India ‎(1838 - 2012), Publicly Available Content Database and The Vogue Archive.

You can access this database via the Senate House Library if you are SOAS staff or student, just make sure to have a library membership https://senatehouselibrary.libguides.com/remote-registration

The online version of Renmin ribao 人民日报 (People's Daily) 1946 - 2012
This resource is available within SOAS campus only due to subscription restrictions.

Online version of Renmin ribao 人民日报 (People's Daily) 1946 - 2012

Offers a single search of KERIS Union Catalogue, Korean journal articles, and theses and dissertations. Covers full range of disciplines. Contains non-Korean articles. Can be used as a platform for DBpia, KISS, Korea Scholar, and Kyobo Scholar.

Access to over 400 journals, with bibliographic information and abstracts. Also provides full-text access, free of charge, where SOAS subscribes to the journal.

Huge full text database of case law and legislation from India plus case law only from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand, Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, US, Canada & a wide range of international courts.

Full-text database of academic journals published in South Korea.

Access to a small number of e-journals, mostly relating to development and economics.

You can access this database via the Senate House Library if you are SOAS staff or student, just make sure to have a library membership https://senatehouselibrary.libguides.com/remote-registration

If you come across a resource not held at the SOAS library, please try at Senate House Library.

The Seoul Press (published 1907-1937) was Japan’s Korean news flagship. Its mission was to validate the natural justice of Japanese imperialism in Korea, and Japan as the redeeming, organising, and modernising force in East Asia. This English newspaper represented the Japanese administration of Korea to the world. The collection includes the years 1907-09 and 1928-37.

Shen Bao (申報), is the most influential and longest-lasting commercial newspaper of pre-1949 China.

An online encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. Including over 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds.

Korean Language Ebook portal. SOAS current students and academic staff can sign up to use Kyobo ebook site via this link https://soas.dkyobobook.co.kr/elibrary-front/member/memberJoin.ink. For more detailed information, please check the guidance via this link https://soas.dkyobobook.co.kr/elibrary-front/content/contentList.ink?cttsDvsnCode=001

Index to the core scholarly journals for social sciences; covering more than 1,725 journals. Accessed via the Web of Science/Knowledge.

The South Asian Newspapers collection chronicles these conflicts as well as contemporary perspectives on independence movements, early statehood, and the extensive economic and social growth taking place in the region during this time. The collection covers several countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan), India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, and features multiple languages such as Bengali, Dari, English, Nepali, and more

The Southeast Asian Newspapers collection chronicles the changes that took place throughout the region during this period, and the challenges of early statehood. Covering several countries from the region, including Myanmar (formerly Burma), Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, and featuring multiple languages such as Dutch, English, French, Javanese, Spanish, and Vietnamese, the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection incorporates a wealth of coverage and perspectives on major regional and global events of the late 19th and 20th centuries.

TEPS 台灣電子期刊服務網 is an on-line database offering full-text Taiwanese periodicals. Currently TEPS contains more than 700 Taiwan Periodicals of different subjects.

Taiyo is considered indispensable for the study of Japan's modern period. It was a comprehensive magazine published by Hakubunkan from January 1895 to February 1928 (a total of 34 volumes, 531 issues). It was Japan's first general interest popular magazine which offered political, military, economic and social commentary, especially known for its literary criticism, Japanese literature, and translation of Western authors.

Taylor and Francis publishes more than 2,700 high-quality, peer-reviewed journals across a broad range of research areas.

The Southeast Asia Materials Project (SEAM) has a large pool of microform and digital collections on historical, political, linguistic, economic, and geographical data and primary source materials not available elsewhere.

Provides access to first hand accounts of historical local, regional and national news for publications including The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce and the Bombay Times and Standard. Easily searchable, spanning centuries of historical and political events.

This is a comprehensive database that searches across PDF files of official awards, decisions and other WTO documents.

Access to bibliographic database providing descriptive, non-evaluative abstracts for almost all relevant publications in the field of Translation and Interpreting Studies.

Database of over UK television and radio programmes from around 300 UK stations including terrestrial, cable, and satellite television (with regional variations), all national and many local radio stations.

A collection of declassified US intelligence documents from 1945-1991 on the activities of the American intelligence networks in Asia during the Cold War era, with particular focus on China, North Korea and Vietnam, although other regions of Asia are covered. Please, use either Firefox or Google Chrome web browser to access this resource.

Access to United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Industrial Statistics and Industrial Demand Supply databases.

Access to over 2,000 e-books. To download e-books from VLe-Books platform you need to install Adobe Digital Editions to your computer.

A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month.

Access to the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Science Citation Index.
Training portal https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/support/wos/

An upgraded/enhanced version of Diaolong, covering all content. As compared to Diaolong, we have refined collections and added new materials: China Local Gazetteers III; Japanese Huaidetang Book Collection; Ancient Novel Collection; Ancient Opera Series.In addition, more than 1000 types of Siku Weishoushu in Wenxinge. Now in total, there are 1315 types of Weishoushu in the Wenxinge database.We have also improved platform functions. The new platform is easy to navigate and users can set up a personalized library. Users can register their library where they can collect their favorite books and create records for them.

A legal database which provides access to selected full text case law, legislation and journal articles for the US and other selected jurisdictions worldwide. Access is via Westlaw UK.

A legal database which provides access to selected full text case law, legislation and journal articles from the UK and EU.

Access to over 500 social science and humanities journals.

LSEG Workspace (previously called Eikon) gives you access to key financial data for both developed and emerging markets; statistics on equities and equity indices, company fundamentals, bonds, international macro data, interest and exchange rates, commodities and derivatives; a comprehensive time-series of up to 50 years for 175 countries and 60 markets; in total more than 255 mil time series data. For more information, visit the Finance & Management Libguide page https://soas.libguides.com/c.php?g=705003&p=5231329

Access to Africa Development Indicators, World Development Indicators and Global Finance Statistics.

World News Connection archive (1995-2013) is an English-language archive of over one million foreign newspaper articles and broadcast transcripts — methodically translated into English by the US Government — from almost 500 news sources in 130. News from the MENA region and Central Asia & the Caucasus, as well as titles published in United Kingdom such as al-Hayat, Al-Quds al-'Arabi and Al-Ayyam.

Full text database of Yomiuri Shinbun (読売新聞) from the first issue in 1874 to the present. Includes the English edition, The Daily Yomiuri, and biographical information on some 2,000 people.
One simultaneous access only.

The Young Lives survey is a long-term project investigating the changing nature of childhood poverty in four developing countries. The study is being conducted in Ethiopia, India (in the Andhra Pradesh state), Peru and Vietnam.

Index database for Japanese magazine and periodicals from the Meiji Era to the Present.

Online newspapers, including: United Daily News, Economic Daily News, Ming Shen Daily News, United Evening News, World Journal and Europe Journal, contents of partner magazines.