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

History Culture Series   

URL
On-campus: http://www.hisculture.co.kr/
Off-campus: http://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.hisculture.co.kr/

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 and visual material 

Description
Contains photographs. Subjects cover archaeology, art history, and history.

This resource is part of E-Korean Studies.  

Dates covered
Various 

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Note
Subscription is partially supported by the Korea Foundation. 

HeinOnline

URL 

On-campus
Off-campus

Access

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

All articles are full-text.

Description

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.

Dates covered

Date range varies according to journal title, earliest 1875 and latest one year ago.

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Printing and downloading are available. There is no e-mail function.

Software requirements

As all HeinOnline articles are images of journal pages there are special software requirements for printing. To print you will either need an Adobe Acrobat Reader (note all on-site computers have this software), for a free download go to: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html  or the HPrint programme which is available from the HeinOnline website

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HeinOnline FAQ
The HeinOnline Blog

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

Access

Access is only available to SOAS staff and students and requires a SOAS id and password to login on or off-campus.

Description

Access to over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688. Including the following collections:

• 18th century (1688-1834)
• 19th century (1801-1900)
• 20th century (1901-2003/04 session)

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Download and export to reference software (EndNote. ProCite, Reference Manager) are available.

Index Islamicus

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals

URL

On-campus - http://heinonline.org/HOL/Index?collection=iflp
Off-campus - http://heinonline.org/HOL/WAYFless?entityID=https%3A%2F%2Fidp.soas.ac.uk%2Fentity&target=http%3A%2F%2Fheinonline.org%2FHOL%2FIndex%3Fcollection%3Diflp

Access

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

Bibliographic.

Description

A multilingual index to articles and book reviews appearing in approximately 540 legal journals published worldwide. It provides in-depth coverage of public and private international law, comparative and foreign law, and the law of all jurisdictions other than the United States, the UK, Canada, and Australia.

Dates covered

Coverage from 1985 onwards.

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E-mail, print and download available.

Index to Theses

URL

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

Bibliographic, with abstracts where available.

Description

Index to Theses contains bibliographic details for theses accepted for MPhil and PhD degrees by the universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards from 1716 to date.

Dates covered

Bibliographic listings from 1716, with abstracts for all entries from 1986 onwards.

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Print.

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Index to Theses FAQs

Indiastat.com

URL

http://www.indiastat.com/

Access

Access restricted to SOAS staff and students only. One concurrent user only.

Restrictions: viewing of 7500 data tables or downloading of 5000 data tables. Access will cease after one of these limits has been reached.

Authentication

Available to SOAS staff and students using password available from the enquiry desk or by emailing electronic@soas.ac.uk.

Full-text or bibliographic

N/A - content is statistical datasets & related news

Description

Indiastat contains India specific socio-economic secondary level statistical data. Sources include reports, statistical publications, policies, other releases of various ministries/departmets of Govt. of India and its states, semi-government departments, autonomous and trade bodies, parliament question-answers and other authentic material. Contents of Indiastat.com are classified in over 30 major sections. These sections are: Administrative Setup, Agriculture, Banks and Financial Institutions, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Companies, Cooperatives, Crime and Law, Demographics, Economy, Education, Electoral Data, Environment and Pollution, Foreign Trade, Forest and Wildlife, Geographics, Health, Houses and Households, Industries, Insurance, Labour and Workforce, Market Forecast, Media, Meteorological Information, Mines and Minerals, Per Capita Availability, Petroleum, Power, Social and Welfare Schemes, Sports, Telecommunication, Tourism, Transport, Urban Areas and Villages.

Dates covered

Dates covered vary according to dataset, starting from 1990 onwards.

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N/A

More information

http://www.indiastat.com/faqs/faqs.aspx#Contents
http://www.indiastat.com/mustsee/navigatesite.aspx

IngentaConnect

URL

On-campus
Off-campus

User name and password

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, only for journals subscribed to by SOAS (there are over 150 titles available).

Description

IngentaConnect provides 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.

Subject areas

Anthropology, archaeology, architecture, business, economics, education, finance, gender studies, history, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, political science, international relations, religion, sociology, law, urban studies.

Dates covered

Dates vary by title.

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E-mail, print and download and export records to reference software (EndNote) available.

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Help pages
Ingenta Blog

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)

URL

[On-campus] http://search.proquest.com/ibss?accountid=16710
[Off-campus] http://search.proquest.com/ibssshell/shibboleth/?accountid=16710

Access

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

Bibliographic, with links to full-text via SFX.

Description

Part of CSA, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) is a database of which gives bibliographic details articles and reviews from journals, and chapters from some books dating back to 1951.

Subject areas

Economics, Sociology, Politics, Anthropology.

Dates covered

1951 to current year.

ISI Web of Science/Knowledge

Access

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

Bibliographic, with links to full-text via SFX.

Description

Provides access to three multidisciplinary databases. These databases fully index core scholarly journals, and also includes the references cited in the articles:

• Science Citation Index Expanded covers core scholarly journals for science. It indexes more than 5,900 major journals.
• Social Sciences Citation Index covers core scholarly journals for social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals.
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index covers core scholarly journals for arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 journals.
  

Subject areas

Anthropology, Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Asian Studies, Computer Science, History, Language, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Medicine, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Sociology, Women's Studies.

Dates covered

Science Citation Index 1981 to current; Social Sciences Citation Index 1956 to current; Arts & Humanities Citation Index 1975 to current.

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All available. Can export records to reference software: EndNote, Reference Manager, ProCite BibTeX.

iSinoLaw 中华法律网

JapanKnowledge +NK ジャパンナレッジ

URL

On-campus: http://www.jkn21.com/ 
Off-campus: https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.jkn21.com/ 

Access

Available to all Library users on-campus. Off-campus access available to SOAS staff and students, using their SOAS id and password. Limited access for 6 users at a time among 8 consortium member libraries.

Full-text or bibliographic

Full-text

Description

A selection of major dictionaries and encyclopaedias, as well as databases for weekly journals and books etc.

SOAS has access to the JapanKnowledge +NK, which includes:

[Encyclopedias]

• Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan
• 日本大百科全書 [ニッポニカ] (Complete Japanese Encyclopedia [Encyclopedia Nipponica 2001])
• 日本人名大辞典 (The Biographical Dictionary of Japan)
• 現代用語の基礎知識 (Encyclopedia of Contemporary Words)
• 情報・知識 Imidas (Innovative Multi-Information Dictionary)

[Dictionaries]

• 日本国語大辞典 (Shogakukan Unabridged Dictionary of the Japanese Language)
• 字通 (Jitsu / Great Dictionary of Chinese Characters)
• デジタル大辞泉 (Digital Dai-ji-sen Japanese Dictionary)

[Books]

• 東洋文庫 (Toyo Bunko / The Oriental Library Series)
• 新編日本古典文学全集[小学館版](Shogakukan Japanese Classical Literature)
• 江戸名所図会 (Famous Place in Edo)
• 誰でも読める日本史年表：古代/中世 (A User-Friendly Timeline of Japanese History with Furigana)

[Articles, etc.]

• 週刊エコノミスト (Weekly Economist)
• 会社四季報 (Japanese company Handbook)
• JK Who’s Who
• NNA：アジア＆EU国際情報 (NNA Global Business News from Asia and Europe)

*SOAS does not have access to 日本歴史地名大系 (Nihon Rekishi Chimei Taikei).

Dates covered

Latest editions only of serial publications: 現代用語の基礎知識, Imidcas, 週刊エコノミスト and 会社四季報.

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Download/print available

JSTOR

URL

On-campus: http://www.jstor.org/
Off-campus: http://www.jstor.org/start-session?entityID=https://idp.soas.ac.uk/entity

Access

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

Usernames and passwords

For off-campus access (SOAS staff and students only).

Full-text or bibliographic

A large amount of full-text for archive issues, with some full-text for current issues. 

Description

An electronic archive of core scholarly journals. Provides access to over 1000 titles. All titles are searchable, and are available from their first issues up to between 2 and 5 years from the most recently published issue. Some titles also offer current content, and there are links to current content from other providers via SFX. 

Subject areas

Include African Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Architecture & Architectural History, Art & Art History, Asian Studies, Business, Development Studies, Economics, Education, Feminist & Women's Studies, Film Studies, Finance, Folklore, History, Jewish Studies, Language & Literature, Law, Linguistics, Middle East Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion.

Dates covered

Date range varies according to journal title, earliest 1800's.

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Printing and downloading are available.

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As all JSTOR articles are images of journal pages which can be downloaded as PDF files. To print you will need an Adobe Acrobat Reader, for a free download go to: http://get.adobe.com/reader/. JSTOR PDF help.

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JSTOR help

JSTOR Alumni Access Pilot