Italian

Best Database Choices for Italian

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Italian Databases

Book Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences

This page is maintained by University Library staff to help you find book reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Dissertations & Theses: Full Text    1861-present

Full text (PDF) of most dissertations accepted from 1997 on, some earlier works and some master's theses. Also lists dissertations and theses accepted from 1861 on in the US and at some Canadian, British, and other European universities. Abstracts included after July, 1980.

JSTOR Journal Storage Project

Full-text backfiles of many important scholarly journals. Coverage is usually from the first issue to 3-5 years before the present. Humanities and social science articles are also listed in Periodicals Index Online and Periodicals Archive Online which have more articles from similar journals.

InfoTrac OneFile    1980-present

Large general database of articles from popular magazines and scholarly journals covering a wide range of topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

Literature Resource Center

Includes the full text of articles from the Dictionary of Literary Biography and other biographical and critical compilations about authors, along with journal articles and book chapters about literary works and topics. Also includes the MLA Bibliography. Strongest for English and American literature, but includes much on other literatures.

MLA International Bibliography   1926-present

Lists books plus articles and essays from journals and books on literature, linguistics, and folklore. Before 1956 covered only scholarship published in North America. Also searchable through Literature Resource Center.

Periodicals Archive Online: PAO

Search the full text of nearly 400 international humanities and social sciences journals published from 1770 to the 1990s. These journals with links to JSTOR and through Find@UVa to other collections are also indexed in Periodicals Index Online. PAO was formerly known as Periodicals Contents Index Full Text.

Periodicals Index Online: PIO   1665-present

Search for articles and book reviews in over 4000 international humanities and social sciences journals published from 1770 to the 1990s. Includes links to full text of articles in Periodicals Archive Online and in humanities and social science titles at JSTOR. Formerly known as Periodicals Contents Index (PCI).

WorldCat: OCLC

Online catalog of books and other materials in thousands of libraries worldwide as catalogued by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC).

Dictionaries

Internet Dictionary Project

Includes an Italian-to-English dictionary as well as an English-to-Italian dictionary. These are very small dictionaries, with a very simple interface. These dictionaries contains approximately 1300 terms. Searches are case-insensitive.

A Selection of Other Resources for Italian

The Dartmouth Dante Project

Searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy - the Commedia.

Italian Studies Web

Produced by the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, this resource provides access to scholarly resources in Italian Studies.

Lectura Dantis Online

A forum for Dante research and interpretation, University of Virginia.

Letteratura Italiana

Complete title is "Antologia (frammentaria) della Letteratura Italiana," from the CRS4 (Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia).

The World of Dante

A Hypermedia environment for the Study of the Inferno, University of Virginia.

A Selection of Daily News Sources for Italy

Note: the best time to connect to the Italian dailies in Italy on the Web is late afternoon.
A faster way to get the daily news is to subscribe to the electronic mailing list: LANGIT@CINECA.BITNET.

Il Corriere della Sera

Internazionale / I giornali su Internet

Il Manifesto

La Stampa

L'Unione Sarda