Databases
SOAS Library provides access to many databases which support research into the China and Inner Asia. The list below includes resources which are restricted access to SOAS students and staff only and also publicly available web-sites. Most databases can be accessed by all Library users on-campus.
SOAS students and staff can cross-search a range of databases relevant to the study of the China and Inner Asia via EBSCO Discovery .
Below is a list of our major databases available for the China and Inner Asia. For a full list of our databases please see A-Z databases and Chinese Language Databases.
Reference works
- Oxford Reference Online - On-campus / off-campus
- Oxford Language Dictionaries Online: Chinese-English; English-Chinese - On-campus / off-campus
Newspapers
- Chinese Sinaporean Newspaper Archives 新加坡华文旧报章
- North China Herald - On-campus / off-campus
- Old HK Newspapers
- Udn.com 聯合新聞網 - On-campus / off-campus
- Renmin ribao 人民日报 (People's Daily) - On-campus / off-campus
- Shen Bao 申報 - On-campus / off-campus
- World News Connection Archive - On-campus / off-campus
Full-text databases
- EBSCOHost - On-campus / off-campus
- JSTOR - On-campus / off-campus
- Project Muse - On-campus / off-campus
- Sage Journals Online - On-campus / off-campus
- Science Direct - On-campus / off-campus
- China Academic Journals (CAJ) 中国期刊全文数据库 - On-campus / off-campus
- Dacheng Old Journal full-text database 大成老旧刊全文数据库 - On-campus / off-campus
- Diaolong Full-text Database of Chinese & Japanese Ancient Books 雕龍: 中日古籍全文資料庫 - On-campus / off-campus
- Hong Kong Journals Online
- National Social Science Database 国家哲学社会科学学术期刊数据库
- PKUlaw 北大法宝 - On-campus / off-campus
- Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services (TEPS) 台灣電子期刊服務網 - On-campus / off-campus
- Westlaw China - On-campus / off-campus
Bibliographies & Indexes
- Bibliography of Asian Studies
- Humanities & Social Science databases Catalog (HUSSCat) 人文社會資料庫名錄
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
- ISI Web of Science/Knowledge
- Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts (LLBA)
- Taiwan Citation Index - Humanities and Social Sciences (TCI-HSS)
Ebook
- Airiti - iRead 華藝 - On-campus / off-campus
- CNKI e-books - On-campus / off-campus
- Cambridge Books Online
- Ebook Central
- Gu jin tu shu ji cheng 古今圖書集成 - On-campus / off-campus
- Siku Quanshu (e-SKQS) 四庫全書 (On-campus only)
- China Maxx (中文集献) - On-campus / off-campus
- Duxiu 读秀 - On-campus / off-campus
- Taiwan Ebook 臺灣華文電子書庫
- Western Books on China (Brill) - On-campus / off-campus
Dissertations/Theses
- China Doctoral/Masters Dissertations (CDMD) 中国博士/ 硕士学位论文全文数据库
- Chinese Theses and Dissertations Services (Taiwan) 中文電子學位論文服務
- National Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertation in Taiwan 臺灣博碩士論文知識加值系統 (Registration required)
- The HKU Scholars Hub 香港大學學術庫
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection