Kanopy

Kanopy
URL
On-campus 
Off-campus

Access
SOAS students and staff only from computers on-campus / 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
A streaming video database for educational institutions.

The collection includes a number of leading producers, such as Criterion collection, New Day Films, Documentary Educational Resources, BBC and many more.

This is one of few Databases that SOAS Library is running to directly involve users in the acquisition of content. The Library has deposited funds with Kanopy allowing for licences to the popular titles to be purchased whilst all other films can be watched.

Content
Streaming Video
System requirements
Audio and video resources are accessible with Adobe Flash Player 9 or higher.

Dates covered
From 1910’s – recent films. New films are regularly updated.
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Video content is only available for streaming.

More information
Further information and guidance is available from their help pages.

Kikuzō II Visual 聞蔵IIビジュアル [朝日新聞オンライン記事データベース]

URL

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

Access

Any Library user from computers on-campus. SOAS students and staff only from computers off-campus. Limited access for 3 users at a time among 5 consortium member libraries. 

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 in Japanese

Description

A newspaper database for Asahi Shinbun, containing three weekly magazines, Aera, Asahi Gurafu, and Shūkan Asahi, and an annual new-word dictionary Chiezō, Who’s Who Database, and Historical Photo Archive are also available.

Dates covered

朝日新聞 (Asahi Shinbun): August 1984 to the present date
朝日新聞縮刷版 (Asahi Shinbun Shukusatsuban) = Asahi Shimbun Compressed Edition:  1879~1984
アエラ(Aera): August 1984 to the present date
アサヒグラフ  (Asahi Gurafu): 1923 to 1956
週刊朝日(Shukan Asahi): August 1984 to the present date
知恵蔵: The latest edition
歴史写真: 1930s to 1945

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KISS [Korean-studies Information Service System]

URL:

On-campus: http://kiss.kstudy.com/

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

Description

Contains scholarly articles mainly in Korean, published in some 3,500 journals from 1,200 research institutions in Korea. Covers all subjects in social sciences, humanities and natural sciences.

Dates covered

1945 to the present date; 1st issue to the latest issue.

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Download/print available.

Kluwer Arbitration

URL

https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.kluwerarbitration.com/

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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:

Full text database covering a huge range of materials on international commercial arbitration including:
major works, such as the Handbook on Commercial Arbitration & the Yearbook of Commercial Arbitration; over 100 books; 10 journals; international conventions; domestic legislation from around the world; Bilateral Investment Treaties; international & domestic case law; rules of international and domestic arbitration organisations.

Korean History & Culture Research Database

The Korea Times

URL
On-campus: https://search.proquest.com/?accountid=16710
Off-campus: https://search.proquest.com/hnpkoreatimes/shibboleth?accountid=16710

Access
Any Library user from computers on-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 in English

Description
The Korea Times is the oldest English daily newspaper published in South Korea which started in November 1950. This archival database provides all published contents including advertisements from 1956 to 2016.

Dates covered
1956-2016

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KRpia

URL

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

Description

E-book database including reference resources (encyclopaedias, dictionaries, guidebooks, and bibliographies). Contents can be searched by author, title and keyword, as well as browsing by subject: Philosophy, history, religion & mythology, social sciences, arts, literature, history, Korean culture, natural flora and fauna, science, and oriental medicine.

Dates covered

Various

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Note

Subscription is partially supported by the Korea Foundation.

KSI e-book

URL
On-campus: http://ebook.kstudy.com
Off-campus: https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://ebook.kstudy.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. 

Description
Provides 5,400 full-text e-books in humanities, social sciences, natural and medical science, arts and physical education, etc. This resource is part of E-Korean Studies.  

Dates covered
Various 

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Download/Print available. 

Note
Subscription is partially supported by the Korea Foundation. 

Lexis Library

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.

Description

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

• UK case law (1865 onwards) and legislation (1267 onwards)
• EU case law (1954 onwards) and legislation (1952 onwards)
• Comprehensive coverage of United States and Canadian legal materials
• Includes legal materials for Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brunei and Singapore
• Provides access to international materials (includes treaties and agreements)
• Contains over 1,000 Journals and Law Reviews published worldwide
• Current Awareness – abstracts and indexes of legal and regulatory events in the UK and EU
• Also includes Halsbury’s Laws of England providing a comprehensive narrative statement of the law of England and Wales.
• Provides access to local and national UK newspapers.

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Download, e-mail, print are available.

More information

Quick start guide

LexisNexis provides customer support:
Phone: 0845 370 1234
e-mail: contentsupport@lexisnexis.co.uk

Lexis: Middle East Law

Access

Available only to SOAS staff and students. To obtain a username and password e-mail electronic@soas.ac.uk or visit the Library Enquiry Desk.

Description

Lexis Middle East Law is a legal database which contains a mixture of full text & summary coverage of legislation, case law, commentary & legal news from (in order of comprehensiveness):

UAE
Saudi Arabia
Qatar
Oman
Kuwait
Dubai
Turkey
Bahrain
DIFC
Abu Dhabi
Egypt
Sharjah
QFC
Lebanon
Jordan
Iran
Iraq
Libya
Morocco

More Information

About Lexis: Middle East Law http://www.lexismiddleeastlaw.ae/

Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts (LLBA)

URL

[On-campus] https://search.proquest.com/llba?accountid=16710
[Off-campus] https://search.proquest.com/llbashell/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

Description

LLBA is an index to technical reports, bibliographic citations and graphs (journal articles, books, book chapters, reports and dissertations), covering the latest developments in the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.

Full-text or bibliographic

Bibliographic

Subject areas

Linguistics and Language studies.

Dates covered

1973 - Current

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Download, e-mail, print facilities are available. It is also possible to create search alerts.

LLMC Digital

URL

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

Access

Available to all users on-campus and to SOAS staff & students off-campus with SOAS ID and password. 

Description

LLMC Digital is a database of full-text legal and law-related publications. It includes books, journals, law reports, legislation, government publications and other documents. The coverage varies with each title, although most of the content dates from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Note that unless a title is marked "Available Online", only bibliographic information will be available, not the full text

It contains the following collections:

United States Federal Government, States and Territories & Anglo-American Collections

Both Federal and State materials are covered, including:

• US Supreme Court Reports
• Official Edition (1790-1996)
• the US Code (1925-1990s)
• First series of West's regional Reporters (1880s-1925).

Foreign Jurisdictions

Provides material for selected countries including:

• United Kingdom
• The English Reports (1378-1865) and individual series of nominate reports
• UK official publications about other countries (will be listed under the names of the respective countries)
• India
• Iraq
• Japan
• Pakistan
• Palestine
• South Africa

Multi-Jurisdictional Subject Collections

Includes titles covering British Empire studies, canon law, military law, comparative law, Roman law and legal philosophy

International Law and Organisations Collections

Includes monographs and titles covering legislation, Treaties and case law

More Information

LLMC Digital http://www.llmc.com/

Maisaku 毎索

URL

On-campus: http://mainichi.jp/contents/edu/maisaku/login.html

Off-campus: https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=https://dbs.g-search.or.jp/WMAI/WMAI_ipcu_login.html

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
毎日新聞 (Mainichi Shinbun - The oldest Japanese newspaper covering 1872 to present)
週刊エコノミスト (Shukan Ekonomisuto - Full text available from 1989 to present)
The Mainichi (English newspaper archives covering June 2008 to present)
毎日ヨロンサーチ (Japanese public opinion database covering October 1945-June 2016)
20世紀2001大事件 (Chronological tables of Japanese history in the 20th century arranged by topics and decade)

Dates covered
毎日新聞 (Japanese): March 1872 to the present.
The Mainichi (English): June1989 to the present.

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Download/e-mail not available
Print available
Adobe Flash Player version 9 or later version

Manupatra

URL 

http://www.manupatrafast.in/LoginSwitch/IPRedirect.aspx [on-campus]

https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.manupatrafast.in/LoginSwitch/IPRedirect.aspx [off-campus]

Access

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

Description

Manupatra includes information, news, annual reports and legal materials for a variety of subjects (including Arbitration, Company law, Human Rights, Environmental law and Intellectual Property). It also includes case laws of the Supreme Court and High Courts of India across all subjects, orders of tribunals and commissions, Central Bare Acts (including various States Acts) and rules, regulations, schemes and orders.

Full-text or bibliographic

Full text

Dates covered

Various

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E-mail and print facilities are available.

Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law

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.

Description

This is a fully updated online edition of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law published in print between 1991 and 2001. It is a comprehensive work, with articles covering the central and essential topics in international law. It includes search functionality and click-through cross references to other Encyclopedia entries as well as related content in the online service Oxford Reports in International Law.

More Information

About Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (http://www.mpepil.com/about)

Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies (MECAS)

URL

On-campus
Off-campus

Access

Available to all library users on-campus. Off-campus access available to SOAS staff and students only, with SOAS id and password. 

Full-text or bibliographic

Mostly bibliographic, with links to full-text via SFX.

Description

MECAS is a bibliographic database, which provides access to a wide range of material relating to the study of the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa.

Coverage includes the following fields:

• political affairs & law
• international relations
• economic affairs: business & industry
• cultural heritage, arts & humanities
• society & social welfare
• ethnic diversity & anthropology
• significant religious events & movements
• recent history (1900 - present) & archaeology

Areas covered

Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa.

Dates covered

1900 and earlier, to present.

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Naver News Library [Naver 뉴스 라이브러리]

URL

On-campus: http://newslibrary.naver.com/
Off-campus: http://news.naver.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.

Description

Newspaper database. A digital archive for Tonga ilbo[東亞日報], Kyŏnghyang sinmun  [京鄕新聞] and Maeil kyŏngje sinmun [每日經濟新聞]. Keyword search is available. Advanced search allows by choosing categories among eight subjects (e.g., politics, economy) and 25 document types (e.g., news articles, advertisements)

Dates covered

東亞日報  [Tonga ilbo] : 1920-1999
京鄕新聞  [Kyŏnghyang sinmun] : 1946-1999
每日經濟新聞  [Maeil kyŏngje sinmun = Maeil Business Newspaper] : 1966-1999

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Nikkei Telecom 21

URL

On-campus: http://www.nikkeieu.com/telecom/en/soas.html
Off-campus:https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://t21ipau.nikkei.co.jp/ipauth/auth/auth?sid=1

Access:

Any Library user from computers on-campus. SOAS students and staff only from computers off-campus. Access for one user only at a time. 6 pm JST to 5 am JST (23 hours a day)

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:

Not required.

Full-text or bibliographic:

Full-text.

Description:

Nikkei Telecom21 (Academic Package) is a group of comprehensive business database services offered by Nihon Keizai Shimbun.

The service consists of:

• News: Real-Time Nikkei newswire service (Japanese and English)
• Full Text Article Search: Nikkei’s 4 main newspapers and news (Japanese and English)
• Market & Economic Indicators: Stock Indices, exchange rates, bond pricing and other economic indicators (Japanese)
• Company Search: Company profiles and financial information (Japanese)
• Who’s Who Search: Personnel information in business (Japanese)

Dates covered:

Nikkei Japanese news from 1876 to1961 and from 1975 to date. Nikkei English news from 1983 to date.

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Print is available.

Orbis Bank Focus (formerly Bankscope)

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

Bankscope is a global database of 30,000 banks' financial statements, ratings and intelligence. Information includes:

• Detailed financials - statements are in multiple formats including a new universal format to compare banks globally   
• Interim data
• Ratings, and rating reports, from FitchRatings, Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Capital Intelligence
• Country risk and country finance reports
• Stock data for listed banks
• Directors and contacts
• Original filings/images
• Detailed bank structures
• Economic country profiles and outlooks
• Business and related news
• M&A deals and rumours

Dates covered

Orbis Bank Focus has up to 8 years of detailed accounts for each bank.

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Orbis Bank Focus allows exporting to other software programmes, including spreadsheets, databases, word processors and ACSII formats.

More information

Orbis Bank Focus help or email info@bvdinfo.com

Oxford Bibliographies Online - Buddhism, Chinese Studies, Hinduism, Law & Islamic Studies

Oxford Bibliographies Online: Buddhism, Chinese Studies, Hinduism, Law and Islamic Studies

URL
On-campus: http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/
Off-campus: click here

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

Description
Gives access to the Oxford Bibliographies Online for Buddhism, Chinese Studies, Hinduism and Islamic Studies which combine the content of a research level encyclopaedia with a subject bibliography.

Users can search an individual bibliography or any combination of the three. The resources can be either browsed or searched with specific terms (basic and advanced search levels). Where bibliographic references are quoted, SFX links allow the user to locate the work in SOAS or another library, or link to WorldCat. Tables of Contents let users “jump” to an appropriate section of an article. The database gives citations for articles (MLA and Chicago styles)

Users can create a “My OBO” which allows users to sign in and create a personalized list of citations with their own notes and annotations.

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Articles can be printed or e-mailed

More information
User guide and site help

Oxford Music Online - Grove Music Online

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

Description

Oxford Music Online is an integrated music resource on the web, including:

• Grove Music Online, the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition; 29 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition; 3 volumes). It is updated annually. It also provides over 3,000 links to related sites, illustrations and sound examples.
• The Oxford Dictionary of Music
• The Oxford Companion to Music

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Download, e-mail and print.

Oxford Reference Online

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

Oxford Reference Online is a collection of over 100 reference titles. It covers a wide range of subject areas: language, general reference, art & architecture, classics, history, literature, military history, mythology & folklore, performing arts, politics & social sciences, religion & philosophy, economics & business, law, science & medicine.

Titles include: The Concise Oxford Dictionary, The Oxford Dictionary of Art, A Dictionary of World History, A Dictionary of African Mythology, A Dictionary of Asian Mythology, The Oxford Companion to Music, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics, A Dictionary of Buddhism, Oxford Dictionary of Islam, A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion, The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions, A Dictionary of Economics, A Dictionary of Business, A Dictionary of Law.

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Print and e-mail available.

Oxford Reports on International Law

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.

Description

Oxford Reports on International law brings together a wider range of cases with expert analysis and commentary. It contains coverage of International courts and tribunals, Domestic courts and International ad hoc tribunals.

In addition, cases are linked together using the Oxford Law Citator, making the process of researching cases easier.

Different modules are included:

-International Courts of General Jurisdiction

• Covers decisions from the most important and general international courts
• Covers all contentious and advisory cases from the International Court of Justice and Permanent Court of International Justice

-International Criminal Law

• Covers decisions from a range of international criminal courts and tribunals:

                        International Criminal Court
                       International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
                       International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
                       Special Court for Sierra Leone

-International Human Rights Law

• Covers international decisions on human rights from a variety of global and regional courts

-International Investment Claims

• Covers publicly available awards and decisions arising out of international investment arbitrations, and related enforcement or review decisions from national courts

International Law in Domestic Courts

• Covers international law as applied in the domestic courts of around 70 jurisdictions.

More Information

About ORIL http://www.oxfordlawreports.com/about#aboutildc

Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law

URL

On-campus: http://opil.ouplaw.com/home/OSAIL

Off-campus: https://shibboleth2sp.sams.oup.com/

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
Cross searchable full text of over 50 OUP books on a wide variety of topics related to Public International Law. Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law includes all of OUP's leading general texts such as Oppenheim's International Law and Rosalyn Higgins' Problems and Process. It also includes all of the titles in the Oxford Commentaries on International Law series. In addition it includes all titles from the Oxford International Law Library series and other selected authoritative works. Updated twice a year with more titles added. 

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Printing, downloading & emailing of records are all available.

More Information
About Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law
Full list of available titles (March 2014)

Philosophy in the Islamic World Online

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
The Philosophy in the Islamic World Online is a comprehensive reference work devoted to the history of philosophy in the realms of Islam. The first volume of the series tackles the history of philosophy in the Islamicate world in its formative period: from its beginnings in the eighth century up to the tenth century AD.            
Both major and minor figures are covered, giving details of biography and doctrine, as well as detailed lists and summaries of each author’s works. It covers the period when philosophy began to blossom thanks to the translation of Greek scientific works into Arabic and the emergence of autochthonous intellectual traditions within Islam.

The online edition is fully searchable, cross-referenced and includes several indices of Arabic words, subjects and names.

Full-text or bibliographic
Full-text.

Dates covered
Started in 2017.

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Print (via browser).

pkulaw 北大法宝

URL 

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

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)

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Download, e-mail and print are available.