Recommended Links
Open-access resources and research tools:
Italian OPACs (electronic catalogs)
OPAC SBN (National Library Service)
Collective catalog of nearly 4000 Italian state, local government, university, public and private institution libraries.
Catalogs and collective catalogs of regional libraries.
URBS (Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche)
Collective catalog specializing in classical archaeology, history, art history and architecture, philology, church history, law and social sciences.
Italian Catalogue of Periodicals (ACNP)
The catalog contains bibliographic descriptions of about 160,000 periodicals owned by Italian libraries.
International OPACs (electronic catalogs)
The portal provides access to more than 50 million digitized entries of books, music, artwork and other material from thousands of archives, libraries and museums throughout Europe.
Library of Congress
The electronic catalog of the world’s largest library: millions of books, periodicals, manuscripts, multimedia materials, etc.
Library and Archives Canada
Collective catalog of Canadian libraries and archives.
Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog
A single search mask queries the world’s major libraries (interface also in Italian).
WorldCat
WorldCat connects you to the collections and services of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide.
National online bibliographies
Bibliografía Española en línea
The Bibliografía Española en línea records documents published in Spain and which are collected in the Biblioteca Nacional in accordance with Legal Deposit provisions.
BNB (British National Bibliography)
Bibliography of books and periodicals published in the United Kingdom and Ireland since 1950. It can be accessed as a subsection of the British Library’s Integrated Catalogue.
Bibliographie nationale française
Bibliography of books, periodicals, and electronic documents published in France and deposited with the Bibliothèque nationale de France by way of legal deposit
Deutsche National Bibliographie online
Bibliography of German or German-speaking books, academic dissertations, conference proceedings, periodicals, audiovisual materials and maps collected and registered by the German National Library as a central archival library and national bibliographic center.
Slovenska Bibliografija
Bibliography of books, electronic publications, music and cartographic material whose author is Slovenian or published in the Slovenian language or published by Slovenian publishers.
Specialized search engines
Google Books
Google Book Search searches the full text of hundreds of thousands of books scanned as part of a project involving not only publishers but also some of the world’s largest libraries.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar searches the Internet for academic and scientific literature (articles, essays, abstracts, books, theses, etc.), also allows searching by author, publication and date.
OAIster
OAIster provides access to more than 51,000,000 digital resources of scholarly academic interest archived in more than 2,000 ‘Open Archives’ repositories.
BASE – Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
BASE provides access to more than 200,000,000 scientifically relevant multidisciplinary web resources archived in over 8,100 ‘Open Archives’ repositories.
PLEIADI
Portal for Italian Electronic Scientific Literature on Open Archives and Institutional Repositories. More than 3,000,000 records in archives.
DART-Europe E-theses Portal
The portal provides free access to the full text of electronic doctoral dissertations published in Europe.
Repositories of research resources
Internet Archive
Nonprofit digital library that provides access to a very large collection of digital documents: books, films, documentaries, music, websites, audio and video files, etc.
GreySource: A Selection of Web-based Resources in Grey Literature
Directory of “Grey Literature” resources, i.e., “Publications of an unconventional nature, not available through the usual channels of commercial distribution because they are intended for restricted circulation” (see: ‘Library Glossary. DIEET Library, University of Palermo’).
DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals
Directory that selects freely accessible, quality-controlled full-text scholarly periodicals. A portion of the periodicals are searchable at the individual article level.
DOAB -Directory of Open Access Books
Directory that selects freely accessible, quality-controlled full-text academic e-books.
DFP – Public Source Documentation on the Web
DFP is a structured directory of Internet resources that make available information produced, collected and preserved by Italian public institutions. DFP has an interdisciplinary character.
Other Resources
International bibliography of book translations from more than one hundred UNESCO member nations.