The School of Oriental and African Studies - University of London

Apabi Digital Library 阿帕比数字资源库

URL 

On-campus: http://dlib.apabi.com/soas/
Off-campus: https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://dlib.apabi.com/soas/

Access

Available to all Library users on-campus. Off-campus access available to SOAS staff and students, using their SOAS id and password. 

Authentication

Available to all Library users on-campus. Off-campus access available to SOAS staff and students, using their SOAS id and password.

Full-text or bibliographic

Full-text. 

Description

Currently, the database includes:

1. Reading China:   564 eBooks collected from the best modern literature works.   
2. Yearbook: 53 titles, 553 volumes in the yearbook database. Latest issues will be uploaded into the database when published. The subjects are chiefly statistical yearbooks. Please click guide to yearbooks ( 年鉴导航) for more information.
3. Newspaper: 10 titles. In addition to inquiry and searching service using professional classifying system and indexing methods that are suitable to newspaper resource.  The database provides such service as browsing original -newspapers online and other value-added services. Latest issues will be uploaded into the database when published.   
   

Dates covered:

Reading China: Since 1950s to the turn of the century;
Yearbook: varies according to title - earliest 1970s and latest one year ago;
Newspaper: updated everyday 

Download/e-mail/print /reference software

Users need Apabi Reader to download/borrow eBooks to read offline.

No Apabi Reader required to read newspapers or yearbooks 

Special requirements

Simplified Chinese, GB code.  

User guide:

URL: http://dlib.apabi.com/eastview/help.aspx?t=2&cult=US,

Beida Lawinfochina 北大法律信息网：北大英文网

URL 

On-campus: http://www.lawinfochina.com/
Off-campus: https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.lawinfochina.com/

Access

Any Library user from computers on-campus. SOAS students and staff only from computers off-campus. One concurrent user only.

Authentication

Available to all Library users on-campus. Off-campus access available to SOAS staff and students, using their SOAS id and password.

Username and password

Non-required

Full-text or bibliographic

Full-text

Description

The database provides access to full-texts of English translations of Chinese laws and regulations, judicial cases, legal news and gazettes. It also allows users to search and browse the table of contents of leading law journals.

There are also notes and hyperlinks to all the related laws, regulations, cases and law review articles. The notes and links are in Chinese language.

Dates covered

From 1949 to the present.

Search tips

The database can be searched in either English, Chinese (simplified only)

Download/e-mail/print/reference software

Download, e-mail and print are available.

China Academic Journals (CAJ) 中国期刊全文数据库

URL

On-campus: http://china.eastview.com/
Off-campus: https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://china.eastview.com/

Access

Access is limited to 3 users at a time. Any Library user from computers on-campus. SOAS students and staff only from computers off-campus.

Authentication

Available to all Library users on-campus. Off-campus access available to SOAS staff and students, using their SOAS id and password.

Full-text or bibliographic

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.

Description

The database, with English language interface, provides full-text access to Chinese journals, many of which include English abstracts.

Over 15 million articles from approximately 1,200 journals within the four subscribed series which are: Literature/History/Philosophy (F), Politics/Military affairs/Law (G), Education/Social Sciences (H) and Economics (J).

Dates covered:

Date rang varies according to title (most are retrospectively covered).

Download/e-mail/print /reference software

Download, e-mail and print are available. Citations can be exported to End Note or Ref Works software.

Search tip

The best result is gained by searching with terms in simplified Chinese.

Special requirements

All articles are available in PDF format so you will need Acrobat Reader version 5.X or higher with simplified Chinese font, or alternatively download CAJ Viewer to view or download the articles.

Please use Microsoft IE to input Chinese characters and choose a GB or Unicode encoded font.

More information

Additional information is readily available by clicking on the link to the CAJ Bibliographic Database, 'Librarians Corner,' or other parts of this page.

Beida Lawinfochina 北大法律信息网：北大英文网

URL 

On-campus: http://www.lawinfochina.com/
Off-campus: https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.lawinfochina.com/

Access

Any Library user from computers on-campus. SOAS students and staff only from computers off-campus. One concurrent user only.

Authentication

Available to all Library users on-campus. Off-campus access available to SOAS staff and students, using their SOAS id and password.

Username and password

Non-required

Full-text or bibliographic

Full-text

Description

The database provides access to full-texts of English translations of Chinese laws and regulations, judicial cases, legal news and gazettes. It also allows users to search and browse the table of contents of leading law journals.

There are also notes and hyperlinks to all the related laws, regulations, cases and law review articles. The notes and links are in Chinese language.

Dates covered

From 1949 to the present.

Search tips

The database can be searched in either English, Chinese (simplified only)

Download/e-mail/print/reference software

Download, e-mail and print are available.

Chinese Studies Online (COS) 万方数据

URL

On-campus: http://www.wanfangdata.com/chinese_studies/advanced_search.asp
Off-campus: https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.wanfangdata.com/chinese_studies/advanced_search.asp

Access

Available to all Library users on-campus. Off-campus access available to SOAS staff and students. Access is limited to one user at a time.

Username and password

Available to all Library users on-campus. Off-campus access available to SOAS staff and students, using their SOAS id and password

Username and password

Not required.

Full-text or bibliographic

Full-text.

Description

The Chinese Studies Online (CSO) is a package as well as a platform that enables searching multiple resources in one click. It focuses on a broad collection of Chinese studies materials. Among this package:

1. China Online Journals (COJ)(Arts/Humanities/Social Sciences)

Provides cover-to-cover display journals, allowing readers to browse each journal in the same manner as with print copies; covers from 1997 & update weekly.

Focuses on core journals that are highly recommended by librarians. Among them:

• Arts/Humanities: (491 titles)
• Law/politics: (440 titles)
• Social Sciences: (660 titles)
• Business/economics:(612 titles)

2. Dissertations of China (DOC)(Arts/Humanities/Social Sciences)

Holds over 850,000 records of full-text, or abstracts and other descriptive information of Masters, Doctoral, and Post-doctoral dissertations from KEY Chinese research institutions from 1986 onward.

3. Policies and Laws of China (PLOC)

Provides valuable information on Chinese jurisdiction, legislature, and business laws.

Holds 168,194 records covering a comprehensive range of full-text Chinese policies, laws and regulations of both national and regional levels from 1949 onward.

Download/e-mail/print /reference software

Download, e-mail and print are available.

Search tip

The best result is gained by searching with terms in simplified Chinese.

Special requirements

• It uses OCR-based PDF as its sole format.
• Please use Microsoft IE to input Chinese characters and choose a GB or Unicode encoded.

iSinoLaw 中华法律网

URL

On-campus: http://www.isinolaw.com/
Off-campus: https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.isinolaw.com/

Access

Any Library user from computers on-campus. SOAS students and staff only from computers off-campus. Two concurrent users only.

Authentication

Available to all Library users on-campus. Off-campus access available to SOAS staff and students, using their SOAS id and password.

Username and password

Non-required

Full-text or bibliographic

Full-text

Description

A guide to laws and regulations of the People's Republic of China.

Content includes:

• National and local laws and regulations, includes judicial interpretations, court judgements, arbitration, etc.
• WTO documents.
• Standard contract forms.
• Chinese legal questions and answers.
• Daily updated legal news.
• Alert service on newly issued laws and regulations.
• Taiwan and Macau laws in Chinese only.
• Lawyer's directory, glossary and Chinese law publication catalogues.
• Chinese legal questions and answers.
  

Dates covered

From 1949 onwards.

Search tips

The database can be searched in either English, Chinese (simplified or full form) or Japanese.

Download/e-mail/print/reference software

Download, e-mail and print are available.

NPM Online 故宮線上

URL

On-campus: http://www.airiti.com/

Access

Any Library user from computers on-campus. SOAS students and staff only from computers off-campus.

Authentication

Available to all Library users on-campus. Off-campus access available to SOAS staff and students, using their SOAS id and password.

Full-text or bibliographic

Graphics.

Description

NPM Online contains more than 12,000 images of Chinese painting, calligraphy, ceramics, jade, bronze, Buddhist antiquities and other artifacts from the National Palace Museum in Taipei. It provides high-resolution 1024x768 pixel images and includes artifact descriptions in multiple languages, including Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and English. Japanese versions will be coming soon.

Download/e-mail/print /reference software

Download or print images.

Search tip

The database can be searched by category such as calligraphy, etc. and search results can be searched by dynasty, creator or title. All search features are supported in traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, English (and Japanese shortly).

Siku Quanshu (e-SKQS) 四庫全書

Access

Any Library user from computers on-campus. SOAS students and staff only from computers off-campus. Access by clicking on the [Deng ru] button.

Also, note that access is restricted to 5 concurrent users among 11 members of the joint Leiden/Leuven University SKQS consortium so please make sure that you exit the database by clicking on the [Deng chu] button when you have finished.

Authentication

Available to all Library users on-campus. 

Full-text or bibliographic

Full-text.

Description

The Siku Quanshu: Wenyuange edition was compiled during the years 1773-1782 under an edict from Emperor Qianlong. It includes 3,460 classical works, such as the Quan Tang shi, Zi zhi tong jian, Xu Zi zhi tong jian chang bian, Wen xuan, Pei wen yun fu, Tai ping yu lan, the 25 Histories, with a total of more than 36,000 volumes, approximately 800 million Chinese characters.

It covers a wide range of subjects including the classics, history, literature, philosophy, geography, politics, governmental rules and regulations, economics, society, astronomy, science, technology, medicine, etc. It is the most comprehensive encyclopaedia of Chinese scholarship from antiquity to the 18th century.

The database provides special features including searches by title, author, caption title, special indices, subject divisions, name and dynasty of the author, It is useful not only for searching, but also for studying: linked dictionaries, notebooks.

Dates covered

From ancient China to Qing dynasty (ca.1782).

Download/email/print /reference software

Copy and print are available.

Search tip

Search with, full-form Chinese, Big 5 code.

Further information

Guide to the Electronic Siku Quanshu (e-SKQS)

http://eastasianlib.princeton.edu/skqs.htm by Dr Martin Heijdra, Princeton University, USA.