A-Z databases C-D

Cambridge Histories Online

URL

On-campus: http://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/histories/
Off-campus: http://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/histories/

Access

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

Full-text or bibliographic

Full-text e-books

Description

Cambridge Histories Online (CHO) provides access to the complete Cambridge Histories series, and some titles in the New Cambridge Histories series, comprising 270 volumes in all, published since 1960 and covering over 15 different disciplines. 

Users can search and browse content. Users can also personalise the interface, save searches and track their most recent searches. They can create “workspaces” and bookmarks for their own material, and export citations.

Dates covered

Publication dates range from the 1960s to the New Cambridge History of Islam (2010).

Download/e-mail/print/reference software

Users may access, search and view individual chapters for personal use only. Print, copy and download permissions may vary from volume to volume depending on the sensitivity and rights available for the content. Unless otherwise stated in the Terms of Use, users may make copies, printed or otherwise, of one chapter or up to 5% of the pages from each CHO title, whichever is the greater.
Citations can be exported

Software requirements

Acrobat Reader software needed to view the e-books. Acrobat software installed on most computers in SOAS. If you are off-site, visit the Adobe website for a free download.

Further assistance

http://histories.cambridge.org/uid=1203/pages/faq

Cambridge Core

URL

On-campus: https://www.cambridge.org/core

Off-campus: http://shibboleth.cambridge.org/CJOShibb2/index

Access

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

User name and password

Not required 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.

Description

Cambridge Core provides access to over 200 journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities; full text access is only available for titles subscribed to by SOAS (around 25 titles). Cambridge Core also provides access to 500+ e-books from Cambridge University Press.

Dates covered

Varies according to journal, earliest 1997 and latest current year.

Download/e-mail/print/reference software

E-mail, print and download available.

Software requirements

Acrobat Reader software needed to view full text PDF articles. Acrobat software installed on most computers in SOAS. If you are off-site, visit the Adobe website for a free download.

Census data - United Kingdom

Access

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

Description

Census.ac.uk is the web portal for the ESRC Census Programme. The Programme makes available census data from the UK censuses conducted in 1971, 1981, 1991, 2001 and 2011. 

Further Information

Census guides

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

URL

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

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=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

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

Chosun Ilbo Archive 조선일보 아카이브

URL

On-campus: http://srchdb1.chosun.com/pdf/i_archive/
Off-campus: https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://srchdb1.chosun.com/pdf/i_archive/

Also accessible through KISS on/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
Full-text.

Description
Newspaper database for Chosun Ilbo.

Dates covered
1920 to the present date.

Download/e-mail/print/reference software
Download/print available.

CiNii [サイニィ] = NII論文情報ナビゲータ

URL On-campus: 

http://ci.nii.ac.jp/

URL Off-campus:

https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://http://ci.nii.ac.jp/ 

Access:  

unlimited.

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: 

Over 15 million bibliographic records including approx. 4 million full-texts

Description: 

Provides bibliographical citations of Japanese scholarly journals published in Japan. Covers full range of disciplines. Contains non-Japanese articles.

User guide: 

http://ci.nii.ac.jp/info/ja/articles/quickguide.html

Download/email/print /reference software:      

Download (PDF)/print

Communication and Mass Media Complete

Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969

Critical Collective

Access
Any Library user from computers on-campus.

Authentication
Available to all Library users on-campus only.

Description
It is a digital archive as well as an art magazine dedicated to build knowledge in the visual arts in India and South Asia.
This seminal project brings together more than 150 artists, over a hundred writers and curators from India and abroad, it also initiates special projects to investigate the depths of South Asian art history.

Full-text or bibliographic
A repository of writings, interviews and essays on Art History, Media and Cinema in India.

Dates covered
Its purview is from ancient Indian art to the present as it covers early, medieval, modern and contemporary practices in India.
  
Download/e-mail/print
Download and print are not available. You can only read online.

More information
Over 30,000 words of archival and current writing to be updated Each month. Further information is available from the http://www.criticalcollective. in/Contact.aspx

Dacheng Old Journal full-text database 大成老旧刊全文数据库

URL

http://laokan.dachengdata.com/ [on-campus]
https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://laokan.dachengdata.com/ [off-campus]

Description

It includes a collection of 7,000 periodicals, 130,000 issues and 1.3 million articles, which were published from 1840 to 1949 in mainland China. Many of the periodicals are rare and unique during late Qing Dynas. Most journals may not have the complete run of issues. Subjects covered include philosophy, economic, politics, military, industry, agriculture, transportation, literature ,history, geography , astronomy and astrology.

Dawsonera

Access

Available to SOAS staff and students only.

Username and password

Requires SOAS id and password for access on and off-campus.

Description 

Access to electronic books on a range of subjects.

Download/e-mail/print /reference software

Download of individual titles available (for up to 3 days). Printing limited by copyright restrictions per book.

Special requirements

Acrobat Reader software needed to view/download books. Adobe Acrobat software is installed on most computers in SOAS. The software is available for free download Adobe Acrobat.

DBpia

URL

On-campus: http://www.dbpia.co.kr/index_b2b.asp  
Off-campus: https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.dbpia.co.kr/index_b2b.asp  

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.

Description

Journal collection. Contains 1,200,000 articles in from 1,200 scholarly journals. Covers all subject area. Especially strong in humanities, social sciences, and engineering.

Dates covered

First issue to the most recent issue.

Download/e-mail/print/reference software

Download/ Print available

Note

Subscription is partially supported by the Korea Foundation.

Digital Dictionary of Buddhism

URL
On-campus
Off-campus

Access

The Library’s subscription allows unlimited searches of both resources (DDB and CJKV-English) on-campus. SOAS staff and students are also able to make unlimited searches off-campus.

Users who are not SOAS staff/students should access off-campus via:http://www.buddhism-dict.net/ddb/ [limited a total of 10 searches in each of the DDB and CJKV-E dictionaries in a 24-hour period].

Authentication

No authentication required on-campus.

SOAS staff and students may login from off-campus using their SOAS id and password (via the A-Z Databases 'Off-campus use' URL).

Users who are not SOAS staff/students should access off-campus via: http://www.buddhism-dict.net/ddb/ [limited a total of 10 searches in each of the DDB and CJKV-E dictionaries in a 24-hour period].

Description
This resource comprises both the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (DDB) and the CJKV-English dictionary (CJKV-E) for Sinitic characters and compounds related to East Asian cultural, political and intellectual history.

DDB is a compilation of Buddhist terms, texts, temples, schools and persons etc found in Buddhist canonical resources which began in print form in 1986 and migrated online in 1995. The initial focus was on East Asia, but it grew to include other Buddhist disciplines and texts. The website includes external links to other lexical, textual and bibliographic resources on Buddhism.

It is primarily aimed at professional researchers and scholars of Buddhism, but will be of use to anyone with an interest in the faith and its context. The resource was created by Professor Charles Muller, currently at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo.

Full-text or bibliographic
Mainly bibliographic. Some of the external links lead through to full-text documents and other resources

Download / e-mail / print
Users can copy, email or download material for educational purposes and private research, following proper academic citation practices

More information
For related resources, see also Charles Muller’s website Resources for East Asian Language and Thought - http://www.acmuller.net/index.html

Digital National Security Archive (Asia & Middle East)

URL

On or off-campus: https://search.proquest.com/dnsa?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.

Full-text or bibliographic

Full-text.

Description

Created in collaboration with the National Security Archive, this database is the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Topics include:

• The Vietnam War
• The Korean War and aftermath
• Foreign relations with China, Japan and the Philippines
• Reactions to the Iranian Revolution
• The Iran-Contra scandal
• The Soviet War in Afghanistan
• The build-up to the first Gulf War
• Terrorism and U.S. Policy, 1968-2002
• Weapons of Mass Destruction from WW2 to Iraq

This database is sub-divided into collections. To find out more about which collections we currently hold a subscription to click the glossary.

Dates covered

Publication dates range from 1945 to present.

Download/e-mail/print/reference software

Download/ e-mail/ print/ save to reference software and personal workspace available

Software requirements

Acrobat Reader software needed to view documents. Acrobat software installed on most computers in SOAS. If you are off-site, visit the Adobe website for a free download.

Further assistance

https://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/help/homepage.jsp

Note

The National Security Archive is a non-profit research institute and library, located at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., which provides unprecedented public access to declassified government documents obtained through extensive use of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Duxiu 读秀

URL

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