Electronic books
SOAS' e-book subscriptions
Cambridge Books Online
250+ e-books from Cambridge University Press available to all Library users on-campus, and SOAS staff & students off-campus (with SOAS id and password
Cambridge Books Online
Dawsonera
750+ books from a range of publishers. Available to SOAS students and staff only (on or off-campus).
Dawsonera
Ebrary
Pilot project providing access to over 60,000 electronic books covering Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences subjects, including 10,000 Business & Economics books. SOAS students and staff only.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/soas [On or off-campus]
Brill e-books - International Law and Human Rights & Humanitarian Law 2011 collection
70+ titles available for download. Available to all Library users on-campus, and SOAS staff & students off-campus (with SOAS id and password)
Human Rights and Humanitarian Law collection
International Law collection
Oxford Scholarship Online - Law
Access to 700+ e-books on Law from Oxford Scholarship Online. Available to all Library users on-campus, and SOAS staff & students off-campus (with SOAS id and password).
Oxford Scholarship Online
Westlaw UK e-books
A small selection of e-books are available from Westlaw UK platform. Titles include: Chitty on Contracts 30th Ed., Clerk & Lindsell on Torts 20th Ed., McGregor on Damages 18th Ed., Palmers Company Law, Redfern & Hunter: Law and Practice of International Commercial Arbitration 5th Ed.
Available to SOAS staff and students only, on and off-campus.
Westlaw UK e-books
If you would like assistance with e-books please contact electronic@soas.ac.uk
Free e-books
CARRIE: Full Text Electronic Library
Free full text access to donated works still under copyright as well as out of copyright works.
Free books
Links to and information concerning a huge number of e-books available free on the Web. In most cases they can be read online in their HTML version, while many can also be downloaded as files to read offline. Site is based in Australia, but has excellent links to worldwide resources.
Internet Classics Archive
Full text classics from mainly Greco-Roman authors e.g. Aristotle, but other authors include Confucius, Lao-Tzu, Sun Tzu, Sa'di and Omar Khayyum.
Internet Public Library
Collection of over 13000 electronic books. Select "Reading room" for free publicly accessible books.
Online Books Page
Digital library of approx. 16,000 English language works. Available free of charge for personal, non-commercial use. Produced by John Mark Ockerbloom, University of Pennsylvania.
Project Gutenberg
Freely available texts from out of copyright books. Good selection of "classics" chosen by Project volunteers.
UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004
Full-text, electronic versions of selected University of California Press books in a range of subjects and areas, including recent publications relating to African, Middle Eastern and South Asian studies.
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
Full text documents on human rights issues with links to over 1200 human rights sites.
