Ludi Price (2022). Chinese DVD's at SOAS Library. (CC BY 2.0)
The majority of music CDs and DVDs are open access on Level E, stack 48 and 49.
You can also browse by classmark in the SOAS Library catalogue.
DVDs and CDs related to China and Inner Asia are assigned classmarks MDVD24 and MY24.
Music CDs and DVDs are classified according to regions as below.
DVDs
| Classmark | Regions |
| MDVD 3 | Sub-Saharan Africa |
| MDVD 4 | North Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia) |
| MDVD 5 | Near and Middle East, (incl. Israel) |
| MDVD 15 | South Asia |
| MDVD 20 | South East Asia (incl. Oceania) |
| MDVD 24 | East Asia incl. China (incl. Tibet, Mongolia) |
| MDVD 25 | Japan, Korea |
| MDVD 34 | Asia and Africa in general (i.e. cross region) |
| MDVD 40 | Other regions of the world |
Music CDs
| Classmark | Regions |
| MY3 | Sub-Saharan Africa |
| MY4 | North Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia) |
| MY5 | Near and Middle East, (incl. Balkans) |
| MY6 | Jewish Music |
| MY15 | South Asia |
| MY20 | South East Asia (incl. Oceania) |
| MY24 | East Asia incl. China (incl. Tibet, Mongolia) |
| MY25 | Japan, Korea |
| MY34 | Asia and Africa in general (i.e. compilation, cross region) |
| MY40 | Other regions of the world (i.e. World music, Cuban music, Latin Music) or Non-regional |
| Classmark | |
| EMY | Reference Only music CDs |
| MDVD | Reference Only DVDs |
'Reference Only' CDs and DVDs are Closed Access. Due to building refurbishment works, they are temporarily offsite.
To consult ‘Reference Only’ CDs and DVDs, please fill in the 'Order offsite material' form.
Some of our films are coded to specific regions, due to the countries they were published in. Your device or player may be coded to only play discs from certain regions. In the library we have DVD players, and a BluRay player, that are coded to play back discs from all regions. These all-region players are available in Room E26 (the Language Learning Zone) within the library. No booking is required.