SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

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://oversea.cnki.net/
Off-campus: https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://oversea.cnki.net/ 

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.

China Doctoral/Masters Dissertations (CDMD) 中国博士/ 硕士学位论文全文数据库

URL

On-campus: http://oversea.cnki.net

Off-campus: https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://oversea.cnki.net

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:
From 2000 onwards.

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 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.

China Maxx (中文集献)

URL

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

Access

Description

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.

Currently the ebooks in this database are limited. They are organised into subject folders. They are searchable .

Technical Requirements

Internet Explorer required.
Simplified Chinese GB code

The China Times (中國時報)

URL:

On-campus
Off-campus

Full-text or bibliographic

Full-text

Description

The China Times (中國時報) was founded in 1950. It is one of t he most important newspapers published in Taiwan. In 1986 the Democratic Progressive Party was formed. China Time supports Taiwan democracy movement. We have purchased issues from 1991 to 2000, full text but image only.

Special requirements

Use with Internet Explorer browser.

Use full-form Chinese Big 5 code

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.

Chinese Theses and Dissertations Services (Taiwan) 中文電子學位論文服務

Chinese Theses and Dissertations Services (Taiwan) 中文電子學位論文服務

URL

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

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
Full-text is available to subscribed content.

Description
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, Tapei 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.

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 traditional Chinese.

Special requirements
All articles are available in PDF format so you will need Acrobat Reader version 5.X

Duxiu 读秀

URL

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

Description

Duxiu is a huge content-based database composed of 600,000,000 full text pages, with very
flexible searches (full-text, books, articles, theses, web pages, newspapers).

Searching using the full text filter, you can read (and print) most articles. Sometimes there is
a limit of what you can access at one time, but you can follow up with searches for the words
at the end of those pages, etc.

Searching using the book title filter, you can read a limited number of pages directly on-line,
but in many cases you can then email to yourself 50 pages or 1/5th of the book (whichever is
less) at a time.

Some of the books can be purchased by the library for perpetual access; if you think we
should purchase a recent book as an e-book, please notify the China librarian. These will be
available from Chinamaxx.

Technical Requirements

Internet Explorer required.
Simplified Chinese GB code

iSinoLaw 中华法律网

NPM Online 故宮線上

URL

On-campus: http://60.199.250.213/
Off-campus: https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://60.199.250.213/

Access

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

Access via an installed client programme at most computers in the library. SOAS students and staff access from library computers on-campus use only. 

External users can access the database on request at the Library Enquiry Desk.

Full-text or bibliographic

Full-text.

Description

Siku Quanshu Wenyuange edition 1782 (The Complete Library of Four Treasures, 四庫全書) has been deemed as an essential resource for Chinese humanity studies. Initiated by Emperor Qianlong in the late 18th century, the project aimed to collect the most comprehensive information representing the major categories of traditional Chinese knowledge.

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 traditional Chinese.

More information

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