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

Taylor & Francis Online

URL 
On-campus: http://www.tandfonline.com/
Off-campus: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/ssostart

Access
Access to full-text where SOAS subscribes to a Journal, available on-site to all Library users and off-campus access available to SOAS staff and students, using their SOAS id and password

Description

Access to e-journals from a range of publishers, including Routledge and Taylor & Francis; with bibliographic information and abstracts. Also provides full-text access, free-of-charge, where SOAS subscribes to the journal.

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The Times of India (1838-2003)

URL

http://search.proquest.com/hnptimesofindia?accountid=16710

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.

Description

Part of ProQuest, The Times of India is a full text English language database that covers a range of subjects including Politics, History and Society. Document type searches cover reviews, military war news, editorial cartoons, obituaries and marriage notices. Articles  span historical key moments during India's rich and fascinating history, such as the partition of India, colonialism, post-colonialism, terrorism, gender issues and international relations. News stories that can be downloaded  in PDF format capture wars, assassinations, industrial disasters and the creation of Bangladesh. There is also coverage of sports and cinema. Topics can be cross searched  including images.

Full-text or bibliographic

Full-text

Dates covered

Varies for each title. The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce (1839-1859), The Bombay Times and Standard (1860- 1861) and Times of India (1839- 2003)

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Download, e-mail, print facilities are available.

Further assistance

Tips on searching are available from the following help page:
http://search.proquest.com/help/webframe.html?Basic_Search.html

TradeLawGuide

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

Full-text

Description

A database for researching World Trade Organization (WTO) material - it searches across various WTO documents such as official awards and decisions. It enables ‘noting up’ which allows the user to:

• Find all jurisprudence that applies or interprets a legal instrument or provision
• Determine whether that jurisprudence is still good law
• Determine what adjudicators have been saying about that jurisprudence

The database is updated daily

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Download, e-mail and print are available.

More information

Getting Started
How to Methodically Research WTO Law
Learning Centre

Translation Studies Bibliography

URL

On-campus
Off-campus

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 and where available it provides cross referencing links to the source materials.

Description

A comprehensive, interdisciplinary database which provides descriptive, non-evaluative abstracts for almost all publications (reviews are excluded) in the field of Translation and Interpreting Studies. The latest release gives access to more than 20,000 annotated records.

Subject areas

Translation & Interpreting is considered as a broad field of transfer and mediation, containing aspects of intra- and interlingual translation, adaptation, interpreting, reformulation/rewording, localisation/multimedia translation, language mediation and terminology/documentation.
Dates covered

The TSB intends to have broad coverage of current literature. It was decided to start with the last decade and work backwards in time gradually, in addition to covering new publications.

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The bibliographic records and descriptions are available by e-mail.

More information

http://www.benjamins.com/online/tsb/

TRILT: the Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching

URL

On or off-campus

Access

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

Full-text or bibliographic

Bibliographic.

Description

Online 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.

Dates covered

Data is available at least five days in advance of transmission, so TRILT can be used to plan viewing and recording. As the Television Index is added to the database, records of selected academic programmes will be available back to 1995.

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Records can be marked and sent by email.

Further Information

TRILT FAQs

Web of Science/Knowledge

Westlaw UK

Access

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

Full-text or bibliographic

Full-text in most cases, but does index a range of journals for which it provides only a bibliographic record.

Description

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

• UK case law from 1865 onwards (includes The Law Reports and Weekly Law Reports)
• UK legislation from 1267 onwards
• EU legislation from 1952 onwards (published in the Official Journal L Series)
• EU case law from 1954 onwards. (Published in the Official Journal C Series)
• Legal Journals Index – containing abstracts of articles published in the UK and EU
• Current Awareness – abstracts and indexes of legal and regulatory events in the UK and EU
  

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Download, e-mail and print are available.

Terms of use

Please note that when you log on to Westlaw UK you are agreeing to abide by their terms of use. This database is for academic use only and may not be used for commercial research.

More information

http://www.westlaw.co.uk/
Westlaw provide 24 hour customer support:

Tel: 0800 028 2200
International: +44 207 449 1110
E-mail customer.service@westlaw.co.uk

Wiley Online Library

WorldCat

URL

http://soas.worldcat.org/

Access

Available to all users on or off-campus. 

Links to full-text available to all users on-campus, and to SOAS students and staff only off-campus.

Full-text or bibliographic

Bibliographic, with links to full-text via SFX.

Description

Part of OCLC Firstsearch, a gateway to several online databases. WorldCat Database is the OCLC Union Catalogue, which provides single point access to the catalogues of thousands of OCLC member libraries around the world, including records in over 400 languages.

Dates covered:

Before 1000 BC to present.

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All available, can export records to reference software (EndNote).

Yomidasu Rekishikan  ヨミダス歴史館

URL: 

On-campus - https://database.yomiuri.co.jp/rekishikan/ 
Off-campus - https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=https://database.yomiuri.co.jp/rekishikan/

Access

Any Library user from computers on-campus. One simultaneous access only.

Authentication

Available to all Library users on-campus.

Full-text or bibliographic

Full-text in Japanese and English.

Description

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.

Dates covered

読売新聞 (Japanese): From the first issue in November 1874 to the present, with local editions starting in Dec. 1986.

The Daily Yomiuri (English): September 1989 to the present.

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Download/e-mail not available

Print available

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Zassaku Plus = 雑誌記事索引集成データベース

URL On-campus: http://zassaku-plus.com/

URL Off-campus: https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://zassaku-plus.com/

Access:

One user only at a time

Authentication:

Available to all Library users on-campus and SOAS staff & students off-campus.

Username and password:

SOAS id and password required for off-campus use - SOAS staff & students only.

Full-text or bibliographic:

Bibliographic

Description:

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

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Print  (by using right click of a mouse)
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Zetoc

Access

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

Full text or bibliographic

Bibliographic. Full text articles can be ordered from the British Library. SOAS students and staff may apply for articles via Inter-Library loan.

Description

Online version of the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC) which contains details of approximately 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. SOAS students and staff may sign up for ZETOC Alert, an e-mail service to alert you to new articles in your field of study as soon as they are added to the database.

Subjects covered

Science, technology, medicine, engineering, business, law, finance and the humanities.

Download/e-mail/print/reference software

Print & download. Records can be downloaded as text and imported in to Endnote/RefWorks/ProCite/Reference Manager software.

More information

ZETOC FAQs
List of journal titles covered by ZETOC