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McGraw-Hill Education's platform, which brings together resources of interest in the various fields of engineering: books, calculators, tables, tables and interactive graphs, videos and tutorials, news, study and teaching tools (Curriculum Maps, which collects materials for courses, and DataVis, useful for learning about material properties). The available e-books - more than 750 titles published by McGraw-Hill, among which some texts of primary importance - are displayed in HTML for online reading, browsing from the table of contents; the user, after registering a personal account on the site, can print and download portions of the texts and take advantage of other functions.
McGraw-Hill Education's platform that provides access to various resources in the medical field, useful for both study and clinical practice: books, diagnoses, Diagnosaurus (a tool for differential diagnoses), guidelines, guides, reviews, videos, animations, questions with answers, quizzes, clinical cases, calculators, a drug database, and patient information leaflets. More than 220 e-books from McGraw-Hill are available, including a number of core manuals; texts can be accessed online in HTML from navigable summaries and individual chapters can be printed or sent by e-mail. In order to access certain resources and functionalities on the platform, users have to make a personal registration.
Resource developed by Dr. Robert Acland and his team at the University of Louisville Medical School. It offers access to over 300 videos about 3D rotational macro-anatomy, distributed over five modules (The Upper Extremity, The Lower Extremity, The Trunk, The Head and Neck, The Internal Organs). The platform also features an interactive quiz section and can be accessed both via computer and mobile devices.
Bibliographic database specialised in the field of computing. It also provides access to the full text of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) publications: periodicals (about 130 titles), conference proceedings (about 5,150 titles), newsletters, etc.
Collection of about 50 full-text periodicals published by the American Chemical Society (ACS), regarding chemistry, pharmaceutical sciences and related fields.
Database produced by Bureau van Dijk (now in Moody's), which collects economic and financial information on local public entities in Italy (Municipalities, Provincial Administrations, Mountain Communities): final accounts certificates in historical series since 2000 classified both on an accrual and cash basis, economic accounts and asset accounts in historical series since 2007, local authorities' shareholdings in local public service companies or other corporations, more than one hundred indicators (autonomy, efficiency, profitability, incidence, financial independence, leverage and structure), ISTAT coding, resident population numbers, household composition. The integrated software allows analysis, comparison and export of the data.
Bureau van Dijk database with information about one million Italian companies: detailed financial statements according to the 4th EEC Directive, indexed data with a history of up to 10 years, pre-calculated economic/financial indicators, possibility to enter calculation formulas for customisable indicators, complete master data (identification codes, address, telephone number, foundation date), activity codes and description (ATECO, SIC, NACE), number of employees, share value for listed companies, shareholdings and shareholder interests, details of debts/credits, information on bankrupt companies, numerical detail for simplified financial statements. The integrated software enables analysis, comparison and export of data.
EBSCO's database in the field of art and architecture, with international coverage. The indexed bibliographical references are accompanied by abstracts. In addition, full text is available for about 780 journals and 220 monographs. The database contains a rich collection of more than 63,000 images.
ASTM Compass contains the standards and other publications, including e-books and journals, of ASTM International (American Society for Testing and Materials).
Areas of interest are aerospace engineering, environmental engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, energy engineering, materials engineering, mechanical engineering, geotechnics.
To access the journals and the Book of Standards (and other material), please follow the steps below: enter the platform > Select ‘My Subscription’ under General Search > Make an empty search > Select ‘ASTM’ in the filters on the left, under the 'Publisher' field.
Database edited by the ASTRID Foundation (Foundation for Analysis, Studies and Research on the Reform of Democratic Institutions and Innovation in Public Administrations), which presents studies, research and documents related to public policies, institutional and administrative reforms, economic regulation and European Union issues. Full texts of articles, reports, papers, books, normative sources, dossiers, surveys etc. are accessible.
Full digitalisation of all issues of the Gazzetta Ufficiale Storica from 1860 to 1946, which can be consulted online, free of charge. The project, implemented by the Agency for Digital Italy, was created with the aim of safeguarding the heritage, recovering the spaces used to preserve the paper version and facilitating consultation.
Edition of the Basilici (text and scholia) published by H.J. Scheltema, D. Holwerda and N. van der Wal between 1945 and 1988, republished by Brill in a digital version, with a new introduction, indexes and bibliography. The text is browsable from the table of contents and is fully searchable in both Latin and Greek.
Legal database of the German publisher Beck. Current subscription allows access to the following modules:
Collection that includes electronic versions of volumes published by the publisher Giappichelli. To access the digital lending, users must request an OTP code that will be sent by e-mail, valid for individual titles. The e-books, which have a navigable table of contents, can be read online but can't be downloaded; printing and copying are not allowed, even for limited portions of text. Lending last for 7 days, and only one user is allowed per available copy at a time.
Please note: If the “I miei libri” page appears empty, try refreshing.
Journals published by Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, searchable in full-text version, for a total of 47 titles in different areas of law.
Over 3,600 books published by Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, including numerous manuals. The books are available online in full text. Download is not allowed, copy-pasting and printing of individual portions of specifc books is allowed.
Access to the full text of all journals published by BioMed Central (BMC), owned by Springer Nature. About 300 peer-reviewed open access titles in the biomedical field.
Extensive collection of HSTalks videos containing lectures given by the world's leading experts in the biomedical field.
Access to a selection of about 200 full-text journals in digital format published by BioOne, an aggregator of more than 150 scientific societies and independent publishers. The collection offers comprehensive coverage, with daily updates, for the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.
Access to a selection of full-text journals edited by the BMJ Publishing Group: British Medical Journal (BMJ), British Journal of Ophthalmology, Journal of Clinical Pathology, Journal of Medical Genetics, BMJ Case Reports, Gut, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry and many other open access titles.
EBSCO's database in the business field (accounting, finance, economics, marketing and management)that hold millions of bibliographic references. Through this database are accessible many full text of journals (about 2,200 titles), books (44 titles), country reports, company profiles and other documents.
Extensive multidisciplinary collection including almost all periodicals published by Cambridge University Press (about 400 full-text titles).
Database of jurisprudence, which also contains doctrine and legislation. It provides professionals with a constantly updated information service on the Supreme Court of Cassation and the main courts. The current subscription gives access to the maxims and judgments of the Civil and Criminal Cassation, the Regional Administrative Court, the Council of State, the merits (Courts, Appeal Courts, etc.) and the annotated Codes with jurisprudence in real time.
Access to the full text of 12 journals from Cell Press (part of Elsevier), a publisher specialised in the publication of periodicals in the biomedical field: Cell, Current Biology, Structure, Immunity, Molecular Cell, Neuron, Developmental Cell, Cancer Cell, The American Journal of Human Genetics, Cell Metabolism, Cell Stem Cell and Molecular Plant. The titles are also available on ScienceDirect.
EBSCO's nursing database. It contains millions of bibliographical references and provides access to the full text of more than 770 periodicals, plus 275 books, book chapters, theses, conference proceedings, standards and other resources.
Almost complete collection of the Clinics published by Elsevier: the current subscription gives access to 56 journals in various branches of medicine, all in full text. Titles are also available on ScienceDirect.
International repository for the long-term preservation of scientific publications in digital format (especially periodicals), managed by a non-profit association in which major academic publishers and research libraries collaborate. It makes available to libraries all digital content that is no longer accessible from publishers for various reasons (e.g. closure of a publisher, discontinuation of publication of a title, inability to access old issues of a journal, etc.).
A collection of different databases in the field of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM), containing useful information to support decision-making in health care. It is compiled by Cochrane, an international non-profit organisation, and published by Wiley. Within it, the main resource is the constantly updated Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), which includes systematic reviews, protocols and editorials.
Clarivate's database in the field of intellectual property (trade marks, patents, copyrights, projects and models, domain names). It collects more than 9 million cases from courts all around the world.
Access to approximately 1,000 monographs published by il Mulino since 2000 (the current subscription does not include volumes published by Carocci), divided into disciplinary collections: History, Philosophy, Linguistics, Literary criticism, Political science, Sociology, Psychology, Economics, Law. The volumes, navigable from the table of contents, have to be consulted online. The text is in DocBook format, with a different layout from the printed edition, but the corresponding page numbers are always indicated on the side. The copy and paste function can be used. After registering, the user can print individual chapters or download them in ePub format (DRM-free) either on a PC or on a tablet or smartphone; for the reading on a PC, the installation of Adobe Digital Editions or similar software is recommended.
Access to a selection of full-text journals in digital format, published by De Gruyter Brill, for a total of about 50 titles mainly in the legal-economic field.
Collection of 3,800 projects - continuously growing - in the field of architecture and design, published in DETAIL magazines over more than 30 years. You can search the database, view projects, images and related documentation, and download materials. The resource is useful as a research tool and as a source of inspiration for architects and engineers.
Free access database for consultation and querying of Justinian's Digest, with full text in Latin and Italian translation (digitisation by the ed. Milan, Giuffrè, 2005-). The first 32 books of the work are currently available. The project was realised by the Department of Legal Sciences of the University “La Sapienza” in Rome and by the Institute of Computational Linguistics “Antonio Zampolli” of the CNR in Pisa.
Bibliographic database based on the scrutiny of French and international law journals. It also allows you to query and consult French and EU sources for legislation and jurisprudence.
Bibliographic database realised by the ITTIG (Institute of Theory and Techniques of Legal Information) of the CNR (National Research Council), which collects information from the scrutiny of 450 Italian legal journals, for a total of about 470,000 documents. For each surveyed article, bibliographical data, abstracts and/or summaries, classification entries, references of cited normative and jurisprudential sources and other services are offered. The proposed access is via the infoLEGES.it project interface, but a free version is also available (with some limitations) on the IGSG-CNR website.
Online atlas of human anatomy, including over 13,000 images, with CT, MRI and PET image series, X-rays, angiography images, dissection sections, anatomical diagrams and illustrations.
ProQuest's platform, born from the fusion of EBL (Ebook Library) and Ebrary: it collects over one million titles from major international publishers, with multidisciplinary coverage. The subscription allows the entire catalogue to be queried. In order to access, the user always has to authenticate himself via EZproxy. Purchased titles can be read online and downloaded on digital loan. Other titles can be read online for 5 minutes and can be downloaded only if the digital loan request has been approved by the staff in charge. For offline desktop reading, Adobe Digital Editions or another compatible app has to be installed. All e-books, in PDF or ePub format, are protected by DRM. Print and copy and paste functions are subject to system limitations.
Subscription access to EBSCO's multi-disciplinary collection, which includes approximately 200,000 titles of academic interest, published by leading international publishers. The e-books can be accessed online or downloaded in PDF or ePub format - DRM protected - in digital lending mode, by authenticating on EBSCOhost (the registration of a personal account is required); for offline reading, the installation of Adobe Digital Editions or a dedicated app is required. Printing, saving, e-mailing and copy-paste are allowed within the limits set by the system.
Database maintained by the American Economic Association (AEA) and provided by EBSCO, is an evolution of the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL). It contains more than 1.5 million bibliographical citations in different fields of economics (including econometrics). Full text access is available for about 670 journals.
Wolters Kluwer's portal that collects all the Italian journals published by the publisher and its brands (IPSOA, CEDAM, UTET Giuridica, il fisco), totaling about 70 titles in the legal and economic-fiscal fields. It is possible to consult, in full text version, both the current issues and part of previous years. The resource is also accessible within One.
Access to all journals published by Emerald (over 300 titles). The field of interest mainly consists of social sciences - particularly economics, finance, business, management, marketing etc. - to which other sectors have been added, e.g. engineering, health, environment.
Online version of the work published by Giuffrè, now Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre. The entries are reproduced in full (summary, text divided into paragraphs, notes, sources, literature) and completed by references.
An open-access bibliographic database created from the review of over 1,000 Italian journals in economics, law, social sciences and history (from which the ESSPER acronym is derived). Several libraries participate in the project, coordinated by the “Mario Rostoni” Library of LIUC (“Carlo Cattaneo” University of Castellanza). So far, bibliographic references for over 870,000 articles have been collected.
Professional platform which aggregates economic and financial data from around the world, integrating tools for analysis, comparison and export. The subscribed licence allows access to the FactSet Academic Package, designed for universities. To start using FactSet, the user must request the creation of a personal account. The resource is available in two modes: FactSet Web, which can be accessed online using personal university credentials (by authenticating on a specific page for our university) or the personal credentials issued by FactSet (by authenticating on the general resource page), and FactSet Workstation (with FactSet Office Add-in), accessible on enabled PCs at the Economics and Law Library and at the Engineering Library, by asking the staff (installation of the software on personal PCs is reserved for certain categories of users).
Legal database, composed of several integrated archives: Giurisprudenza, which includes all the case laws and rulings published in the journal Il Foro Italiano; Dottrina, containing the full text of the articles and notes published in Il Foro Italiano and in the journals of the publisher La Tribuna; Bibliografia, which includes over 493,000 bibliographic citations from the reviews of italian legal journals and published in Il Foro Italiano; Normativa, which contains the full text of all codes, consolidated texts, the Constitution, national and EU legislation; Prassi fiscale, which collects together provisions, circulars, resolutions, principles, responses and inquiries of the Agenzia delle Entrate; Commentario, containing comments on the Civil Code, Civil Procedure Code, Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code, edited by Luigi Tramontano; Formulari, which provides professionals with downloadable and editable templates. It is possible to access the complete archive of the journal Il Foro Italiano, with all its contents, starting from 1987. In the Biblioteca section, the full-text issues (available since 2010) of the six journals published by La Tribuna are available.
Collection of journals published by FrancoAngeli (about 80 titles in the fields of social sciences, psychology and history), accessible in full-text version via Torrossa platform of Casalini Libri.
Free access to the full text of the Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana since 1861: Gazzetta Storica - Regno d'Italia
1861-1946, Gazzetta Storica - Repubblica 1946-1985, Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana (GU) 1986-.
Electronic resources of the legal publisher Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre. The current subscription allows access to some sections of the collection: DeJure database, containing doctrine, legislation, jurisprudence, forms, bibliography; Enciclopedia del Diritto, in its full version; Biblioteca Riviste, with 47 full-text titles; Biblioteca Volumi, with over 3,500 full-text titles; thematic portals: Il Fallimentarista (now merged into Crisi d'impresa), Il Societario, Famiglie e Processo civile now merged into IUS; journal-portal GiustiziaCivile.com.
Online journal of administrative law, published by Editoriale Scientifica. Each day it features news, contributions, etc. on its front page. It also offers access to various databases: jurisprudence, doctrine and legislation.
The Grant's Dissection Video Collection is organised by body region and includes 77 high-resolution videos, totalling over 13 hours. Each video features dissection sequences, highlighting key structures.
Resource of the publisher William S. Hein & Co., which includes several legal databases containing legislation, jurisprudence and doctrine related to the USA, UK and Canada and international law. The subscribed version provides access to the full texts of over 2,800 periodicals and 15,200 books (especially legal classics); in addition, it includes statutes, case law, official documents, reports, US treaties, constitutions of all countries worldwide and much more.
Database of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), containing millions of bibliographic references in the fields of computer science, electrical engineering and electronics. The subscribed version includes access to the IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL) collections, Bell Labs Technical Journal and VDE Verlag Conferences, totaling approximately 30,000 full-text titles (journals, conference proceedings, technical standards, etc.).
A legal database developed from a research project involving Italian universities and public entities. It includes several sections: national, regional and EU legislation, Italian and EU jurisprudence, doctrine (access to ITTIG's DoGi bibliographic database). Access is free of charge, but there is a maximum of 5 documents per day; this limit does not apply to institutions participating in the project, such as our university.
IOPscience Extra Collection, which allows access to all journals published by the Institute of Physics (IOP) across various branches of physics, including the titles of the Electrochemical Society (ECS), for a total of about 100 full-text titles, plus some open access titles.
Access to 23 full-text journals in the field of computer science, published by IOS Press.
Access to the following journals published by the American Medical Association, all available in full-text: JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), JAMA Dermatology, JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Neurology, JAMA Ophthalmology, JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, JAMA Pediatrics, JAMA Psychiatry and JAMA Surgery.
Annual online publication by Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters and ISI - Institute for Scientific Information), integrated with Web of Science. It provides data and metrics for evaluating academic journals based on citations, including the Impact Factor.
JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) publishes online videos which demonstrate laboratory experiment methods and scientific concepts, useful for research and teaching across various STEM disciplines (chemistry, biology, engineering, environment, medicine, etc.). The current subscription provides access to all the contents of the platform, totaling more than 14,000 videos: all sections of JoVE Journal (a peer-reviewed scientific video journal, indexed in PubMed and Web of Science, with Impact Factor), JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments, JoVE Science Education, JoVE Core, JoVE Lab Manual and more.
JSTOR (Journal Storage) is a large digital library and a part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization. The current subscription allows access to the "JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection", which provides, in a single collection, the contents of over 2,800 journals and primary sources. The journals are accessible according to the Embargo policy adopted by the publisher (ranging from 2 to 5 years).
Access to all journals published by Kluwer Law International (Wolters Kluwer): 30 full-text titles in the field of law, particularly in arbitration and commercial law.
An online journal of public law which provides full-text articles. On the website you can also access three databases: jurisprudence, doctrine (with over 72,300 bibliographic references from Italian law journals), and legislation. Key features are the timely updates and the hyperlinks between documents.
LLMC (Law Library Microform Consortium) is a non-profit organisation composed of libraries with the aim of microfiche conversion and preservation. It also provides a large bibliographic collection of legal texts and government documents related to the United States, Canada and other countries. The collection is accessible online for member institutions through the LLMC Digital service. It currently includes over 130,500 volumes, and mainly consists of public domain materials.
Access via the Ovid platform to the “LWW Total Access” collection, which includes over 350 full-text medical journals published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (a part of Wolters Kluwer).
The Gale publisher's database (Cengage), created from the digitisation of some large collections in the field of economic history, in particular the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature (University of London) and the Kress Library of Business and Economics (Harvard University). It contains more than 62,400 full-text titles including books, periodicals, pamphlets, essays, etc., mainly published in the UK and the USA between the 15th and 20th centuries; significant works of economic thought, sources and rare texts are included.