Access to 1000s of academic journals, as well as 12,000+ e-books from leading publishers such as Princeton University Press, Yale University Press, MIT Press, and Harvard University Press.
For off-campus access use this link
https://shibbolethsp.jstor.org/start?entityID=https%3A%2F%2Fidp.soas.ac.uk%2Fentity&site=jstor&dest=%2F
New / Trial Databases
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The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
A Student’s Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese Online is the Chinese-English resource of choice for all those reading Chinese texts from the period of approx. 500 BCE to 1000 CE.
For off-campus access use this link
https://soas.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://chinesereferenceshelf.brillonline.com/chinese-english
A project to digitize, disseminate, and discover African cultural materials. Its aim is to enable Africa easily to control, digitize, and disseminate its archival riches—those within Africa and items residing internationally. Africa Commons helps to preserve African content and enable African scholars easily to find and access expressions of their heritage in Western collections. The collections includes:
Africa Commons: History and Culture - An index, search engine and preservation tool for more than 500,000 openly available books, magazines and other primary sources. Black South African Magazines - Digital collection of magazines created for Black audiences in Africa from 1937-1973.
Southern African Films and Documentaries - Hundreds of African documentaries, oral histories and other films for study and learning.
Trial is available until 30 November 2023
For off-campus access use this link
https://soas.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://africacommons.net/
These reports feature exclusive research and analysis by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and authors from similar institutions, and present objective analysis versus official government messaging on strategic issues. Covered topics include a variety of issues of importance to China's government and research community, including international relations, agricultural policy, and industry competitiveness. Includes current year data only.
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https://soas.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dlib.eastview.com/browse/udb/1610
This database covers around 10,000,000 pieces of literature in about 20,000 different kinds of periodicals published between 1911 and 1949. As an important part of the historical archive, this database has significant academic and historical values. It not only helps reproduce the unique historical features of the period from 1911 to 1949 and restore the historical memory, but also enriches the digital resources of periodicals so as to facilitate users to conduct academic research on the history of this period.
This trial is available until 19th January 2024
For off-campus access use this link
https://soas.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.cnbksy.com
SOAS Library is pleased to offer a month trial of Japanese database.
Collection of Magazines on Japanese Mass Entertainment and Sexual Customs (1950s - 70s)Database offers cross-sectional access to potentially around 430 popular entertainment / adult magazines published between the 1950s and 1970s.
Following the WWII, new popular entertainment magazines called the "Kasutori zasshi" (named after a cheap liquor, a magazine printed on cheap, low-quality paper) appeared in Japan to meet the needs of people who developed a certain carefree attitude with a emerging post war culture in Japan shirking traditional conservative Japanese values in favour of liberation and hedonism. Diverse in content, their pages include academic treatises, essays, reader letters and personal ads, encompassing subjects from novels, performing arts and movie information, to same-sex love, cross-dressing, and sado-masochism, as well as a great deal of reporting, maps etc. covering entertainment districts across Japan, "red-line zones"
Magazines can be viewed by title, number, and date of publication, and also searched by article title, writer, publisher etc., allowing ready access to thousands of articles. A magazine archive that fills a gap in the historical record, and a database that will open up new horizons in fields from gender and sexuality, to modern history, modern literature, publishing history, and more.
Trial is available until 17th October 2023
Please check user guide at https://j-dac.jp/shakaibunka/shakaibunka_usage.pdf
For off-campus access use this link
https://soas.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://j-dac.jp/shakaibunka/
EventStudyTools helps you perform event studies and news analytics analyses. Its research apps calculate for you all metrics needed for scientific publications - be it for return, volume, or volatility event studies focussed on single or multiple events.
You can access the research apps online on this website or locally via an R-package and application programming interface (API) .
The EventStudyTools website further provides reviews of corresponding academic literature, access to event study experts, and ideas on meaningful academic and business applications.
Foreign Affairs is a multimedia platform published by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR); a non-profit membership organization dedicated to improving the understanding of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs through the free exchange of ideas. The articles in Foreign Affairs deal with questions of international interest today while covering a broad range of subjects - offering not only political perspectives but also historical and economic.
For off-campus access use this link
https://soas.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com
Foreign Policy is one of the world's leading online magazines for global politics, economics, and ideas. Contains a range of analysis, opinion, and reporting on international news and global trends.
For off-campus access use this link
https://soas.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://foreignpolicy.com/
The Institute of Art and Ideas in London (IAI.TV) is home to thousands of video debates, articles and courses, featuring world-leading thinkers across philosophy, science, politics, and the arts. We invite the world’s leading thinkers to challenge each other over the biggest questions facing their disciplines today. From moral philosophy to experimental physics, global economics to art and aesthetics, our debates aim to probe the cutting edge of cultural thought, and invigorate learners to think critically about their subjects. The IAI Player allows learners to navigate this vast resource, jumping between the most relevant parts of their chosen debate using the “Key Moments” feature, or exploring more content from a favourite speaker by navigating to their Speaker page. Students can join the global conversation as our platform provides access to alternative perspectives and encourages them to develop original thought and question the status-quo.
Trial available until 31st December 2023
For off-campus access please use this link
https://soas.idm.oclc.org/login?url= https://iai.tv/
A set of antiquarian books catalogs sent to customers by Sorimachi Shigeo, who founded the vintage bookstore “Kobunso (弘文荘)” in 1932. The catalogs are filled with detailed bibliographical information and a wealth of illustrations, making them a useful reference for philological and bibliographical studies.
For off-campus access use this link
https://soas.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://japanknowledge.com/lib/shelf/kobunso/
This database covers over 600,000 pieces of historical documents from 600 periodicals published during 1816-1911. The extensive collection has covered almost all the periodicals published during such critical periods later known as the Opium Wars, Westernization Movement, Reform Movement of 1898 and Revolution of 1911. It contains the Women’s Periodicals that advocated women's liberation and mental enlightenment, the Four Major Late Qing Dynasty Novel Journals as emerged during the great flourishing period of novels of the late Qing Dynasty, the Vernacular Chinese Periodicals founded to explore the people's mind and spread new knowledge, and the Science and Technology Periodicals which introduced new technologies and spread scientific knowledge.
This trial is available until 19th January 2024
For off-campus access use this link
https://soas.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.cnbksy.com
Dedicated to Black music and global sounds, Qwest TV EDU is a celebration of unique talents, traditions, and rhythms. With 1300+ documentaries, concerts and interviews on offer, the video streaming service strives to be the world’s home for jazz, soul, funk, global, and classical music.
Co-founded and curated by Quincy Jones, the resource preserves the richness of history, while reflecting the present-day beauty and reality of culturally and racially diverse people.
This is a link to our promo kit if that helps to communicate around the trial: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PhdfiGqcR4h4TWEnuRbF4dMq7oKxwIZL?usp=sharing
Trial available until 16 December 2023
To access it choose SOAS from the Find Your Institution menu.
For off-campus access please use this link
https://education.qwest.tv/auth/edu
1. Visit nytimes.com/passes to activate your New York Times digital pass.
2. On nytimes.com/passes, click on "Register" and create a free account using your school email address. If you already have registered a free NYTimes.com account associated with your school email address, log in with those credentials.
3. Validate your email address. Check your email inbox for a confirmation message from The New York Times. Click on the link in your confirmation message to validate your email address and claim your New York Times Academic Pass. This will bring you back to the academic pass page, where you will select whether you are a student or faculty member and select your graduation year if relevant.
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he Shanghai Evening Post was founded in Shanghai in April 1929, as the earliest evening newspaper publication established by American businessmen in the region. In August 1930, it was merged with The Shanghai Mercury and renamed The Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury. A Chinese version was added in 1933. In June 1949, the newspaper stopped publication.
Trial available until 19th January 2024
For off-campus access use this link
https://soas.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.cnbksy.com
Tricycle is the leading independent journal of Buddhism in the West, where it continues to be the most inclusive and widely read vehicle for the dissemination of Buddhist views and values.
An upgraded/enhanced version of Diaolong, covering all content. As compared to Diaolong, we have refined collections and added new materials: China Local Gazetteers III; Japanese Huaidetang Book Collection; Ancient Novel Collection; Ancient Opera Series.In addition, more than 1000 types of Siku Weishoushu in Wenxinge. Now in total, there are 1315 types of Weishoushu in the Wenxinge database.We have also improved platform functions. The new platform is easy to navigate and users can set up a personalized library. Users can register their library where they can collect their favorite books and create records for them.
For off-campus access use the link below
https://soas.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.diaolong.jp/wenxinge/home/index/index.do
