Electronic resources A-Z List

Digital library of the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development).

The Library provides access to the complete collection, which includes:

• periodical publications: complete full text of journals (Journals, Statistical Periodicals, Reference Works) and Working Papers, in addition to the 2 At a glance publications "OECD factbook" and "STI Scoreboard";
• monographs: all books and reports published by the OECD;
• statistics: statistical data can be downloaded as interactive datasets in csv or xls. The data concern the main economic and social indicators for OECD member countries but many indicators are also retrievable for important countries that are not part of the Organization. An alternative access to this data is the OECD.Stat.

The open access includes several archives concerning the most important public information, gathered in the following main archives:

• Serie Generale from 1986 and with certified PDF from 2009;
• Serie Concorsi ed Esami (from 1999);
• Serie Contratti Pubblici (from 2007);
• Serie Regioni (from 1988);
• Foglio delle inserzioni (from 2007). 

The historical archive also gives access to the Official Gazette, Part I published starting from 1946.

The database was created from the integration of various digital platforms by Wolters Kluwer Italia including CEDAM, UTET Giuridica and IPSOA with a particular focus on the tax law field.

The portal is made up of various archives which lets you consult: legal doctrines, jurisprudence and regional and national legislation, community legislation, practices, forms and accounting and auditing principles. In the menu item "Topics" the main tax issues are described and correlated with the other contents of the database.

The legal doctrines include:

• 70 journals published by Wolters Kluwer with the full text in PDF
• Legal codes with commentaries: VAT, TUIR, Indirect taxes and local taxes, Assessment and Collection
• The platform also provides access to the My Library and Professional Newsstand portals and to IPSOA Quotidiano.

In-depth guides and webinars are available at the page https://helpcenter.onefiscale.wolterskluwer.it/.

To login see the guide How to access Wolters Kluwer Italia databases.

The database was created through the integration of various digital platforms by Wolters Kluwer Italia including CEDAM, UTET Giuridica and IPSOA.

The portal is made up of various archives which lets you consult: legal doctrines, jurisprudence and regional and national legislation, community legislation, practices, forms and accounting and auditing principles.

The legal doctrines include:

• 70 journals published by Wolters Kluwer with the full text in PDF format
• the Digest published by UTET
• Italian legal codes with commentaries

The platform also provides access to the My Library and Professional Newsstand portals and to IPSOA Quotidiano.

In-depth guides and webinars are available on the page https://helpcenter.onelegale.wolterskluwer.it/.

To login see the guide How to access Wolters Kluwer Italia databases.

Free access archive edited by the Liberty Fund containing the full text of thousands of books. The subject areas covered, with a focus on individual freedom, are those of Social Sciences and Humanities: economics, law, history, literature, philosophy, political theory, religion. The chronological coverage ranges from ancient times to the present.

The database links global patent data to the companies and groups that hold them:

• Patent filing entities (currently 140 million) are linked to a global database of over 420 million companies. This allows an in-depth view of the entire patent portfolios of a company or an entire corporate group.
• The historical data allow to trace the owners of all valid patents and to analyze all the transactions and changes of ownership concerning each specific patent and to evaluate any anomalies.
• M&A information for monitoring patents that have been sold as intangible assets in an M&A deal, or seeing when a patent or patent portfolio is sold independently.
• A proprietary analysis algorithm provides an economic market evaluation of active patents, both quantitative and qualitative, also tracing their temporal variations.
• Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) to identify technology standards and innovation across portfolios and corporate groups.

The database consists of three different integrated modules:

• PATENTS Archive: database of over 140 million patents linked to a corporate database.
• Intellectual Patents Value (IPV): scoring index to assess the "propensity for innovation", calculated through the proprietary Bureau van Dijk algorithm on the basis of patent activity. The index combines over 25 indicators (including number of citations, geographical coverage of the corporate patent portfolio and legal status) for the evaluation of technical innovation, legal protection of the patent portfolio, geographical coverage, competitiveness with respect to competing companies, expenditure on research and development, the distribution of value among the various patents, the value of the portfolio over time and its relevance for the company's activities.
• Single patent evaluation: access to the estimate of the economic value of the single patent with historical data from 2014. Indication of the range for maximum and minimum value, evaluation based on technical evaluation, geographical coverage by filing authority, market attractiveness and legal protection.

To login see the guide How to access Bureau van Dijk databases.

The database contains information on M&A, IPO, Private Equity and Venture Capital operations and related rumors from around the world, with historical series and without limits for the deal size.

Orbis M&A is constantly updated and provides direct links to the financial statements of the companies involved in the deals.

The resource allows you to:

• view the overview of the companies involved in the deal (personal information, type of activity, identification codes, main financial data);
• access the financial statements of the individual companies involved thanks to the connection with the other Bureau van Dijk databases (Aida, Bankscope, Orbis) subscribed by the Luiss Library;
• fulfill searches by company name, identification codes, type of deal (acquisition, merger, demerger, IPO, joint venture, etc.), geographical area, business sector, rumors, multiples, etc .;
• fulfill research on companies that have divested;
• obtain all information on company or bank deals in historical series;
• obtain information on the deal, indicating the target company, acquiror and vendor;
• sort the deals by date (ascending/descending), by value (ascending/descending) or by status (rumors/completed);
• obtain financial information of the target company before the deal: turnover, EBITDA, EBIT, profit before/after taxes, total assets, shareholders' equity, shareholder funds and market capitalization;
• obtain data on multiples: Deal Value/EBITDA, Deal Value/Total Asset, Deal Value/Turnover, etc .;
• obtain data on deal value, deal equity value, deal enterprise value, modeled enterprise value and total target value;
• obtain information on Stock Price by target, acquiror and vendor before and after the closing of the deal.

To login see the guide How to access Bureau van Dijk databases.

At the end of 2022 Orbis M&A has replaced Zephyr.

Orbis is the data resource on private companies for financial analysis relating to approximately 180 million entities, individuals, banks and insurance companies from all over the world (the Library subscribes to the All Companies version which is the largest).

For each company Orbis contains:

• financial information in historical series up to 10 years;
• information on groups and relationships between companies (shareholding and shareholdings up to the tenth level);
• historical shareholder data;
• complete company details (name, address, telephone number, e-mail, business description, year of incorporation, number of employees);
• information on corporate ownership (position currently held, positions held in the past, relationship analysis up to the third level).

Main features of the platform:

• searching for companies by name, tax code, business sector, geographical area, number of employees, balance sheet items, economic-financial indicators, status and legal form;
• creating lists and samples of companies and carry out customized benchmark analyzes;
• consulting, for each entity, complete reports with company details, headquarters, economic-financial data, information on ownership;
• exporting all available information in various formats (Excel, Word, etc.) elaborate comparisons and calculate sector averages. 

It also includes:

• financial statements in the original pdf version for Italian companies (integration of Aida optical financial statements module);
• share value of listed companies;
• ESG reputational risk ratings and metrics;
• field studies;
• economic news;
• M&A deals and rumors (link to Zephyr)

The database also absorbed the contents of the Osiris database which was deactivated.

To login see the guide How to access Bureau van Dijk databases.

Access to over 140 electronic journals published by Oxford related to: Arts and Humanities, Law e Social Sciences.

Handbooks published by Oxford University Press within the following collections:

• Business and Management: Foundation (before 2012)
• Economics and Finance: 2013 e 2016-2020
• Law: Foundation (before 2012), 2015 e 2016-2024
• Philosophy: Foundation (before 2012)
• Political Science: Foundation (before 2012), 2012-2024

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Textbooks platform published by Oxford University Press in the field of Law. The Library subscribes the EU Law 2023 collection with the following full text titles:

• European Union Law, 4th edition (2023), Barnard & Peers (eds)
• Steiner & Woods EU Law, 15th edition (2023), Costa & Peers
• EU Law: Directions, 8th edition (2023), Foster
• Harris, O'Boyle & Warbrick: Law of the European Convention on Human Rights, 5th edition (2023), Harris et al
• EU Competition Law: Text, Cases, & Materials, 8th edition (2023), Jones, Sufrin & Dunne
• Essential Cases: EU Law, 7th edition (2023), O'Meara
• An Introduction to European Law, 4th edition (2023), Schütze
• The Substantive Law of the EU, 7th edition (2022), Barnard
• Complete EU Law, 5th edition (2022), Berry, Homewood & Bogusz
• Foster on EU Law, 8th edition (2021), Foster
• European Union Law, 11th edition (2021), Horspool, Humphreys & Wells-Greco
• European Constitutional Law, 3rd edition (2021), Schütze
• European Union Law, 3rd edition (2021), Schütze
• Competition Law, 10th edition (2021), Whish & Bailey
• EU Law: Text, Cases, & Materials, 7th edition (2020), Craig & De Búrca
• EU Law in the UK, 1st edition (2020), de Mars
• Jacobs, White & Ovey: European Convention on Human Rights, 8th edition (2020), Rainey, Wicks & Ovey
• Competition Law of the EU & UK, 8th edition (2019), Marco Colino
• Concentrate EU Law, 8th edition (2022), Homewood
• Concentrate Q&A EU Law, 3rd edition (2020), Foster
• Legal Ethics, 3rd edition (2023), Herring (Available from October 2023)

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Textbooks platform published by Oxford University Press in the field of Politics. The library subscribes the Full collection 2023 that includes the sub-collections International Relations, European Union, Introduction to politics, Political Theory and Political Philosophy providing access to more than 50 full text titles, including:

• Comparative Politics, 6th edition (2023), Caramani
• Introduction to Politics, 5th edition (2023), Garner, Ferdinand, & Lawson
• Security Studies: Critical Perspective, 1st edition (2023), Grayson
• International Relations and the European Union, 4th edition (2023), Hill, Smith, & Vanhoonacker
• Global Politics, 1st edition (2023), Hirst, Merich, Hoover, & Roccu
• Global Political Economy, 1st edition (2023), Phillips
• Rethinking Political Thinkers, 1st edition (2023), Ramgotra & Choat
• The Globalization of World Politics, 9th edition (2022), Baylis, Smith, & Owens
• Strategy in the Contemporary World, 7th edition (2022), Baylis, Wirtz, & Johnson
• I-PEEL: The International Political Economy of Everyday Life, 1st edition (2022), Brassett, Elias, Rethel, & Richardson
• European Union Politics, 7th edition (2022), Cini & Perez-Solorzano Borragan
• Contemporary Security Studies, 6th edition (2022), Collins
• Human Rights: Politics and Practice, 4th edition (2022), Goodhart
• Contemporary Terrorism Studies, 1st edition (2022), Muro & Wilson
• The Institutions of the European Union, 5th edition (2021), Hodson & Peterson
• Introduction to International Relations, 8th edition (2021), Jackson, Sorensen, & Møller
• Global Politics, 1st edition (2021), Lawson
• Research Methods in the Social Sciences, 1st edition (2021), Morin, Olsson, & Atikcan
• The Politics of International Law, 1st edition (2021), Scicluna
• Global Environmental Politics, 1st edition (2020), Morin, Orsini, & Jinnah
• Global Political Economy, 6th edition (2020), Ravenhill
• Policy-Making in the European Union, 8th edition (2020), Wallace et al
• International Relations Since 1945, 3rd edition (2020, Young & Kent
• How to do your Social Research Project or Dissertation, 1st edition (2019), Clark, Foster, & Bryman
• International Relations of the Middle East, 5th edition (2019), Fawcett
• Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes, 1st edition (2019), Kendall-Taylor, Lindstaedt, & Frantz
• Democratization, 2nd edition (2018), Haerpfer et al
• Origins and Evolution of the European Union, 2nd edition (2014), Dinan
• Contemporary Political Philosophy, 2nd edition (2001), Kymlicka

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Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law (OSAIL) provides full text access to over 180 editions of reference works published by Oxford University Press such as Oppenheim, and Oxford Commentaries on International Law.

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Electronic collection which provides access to over 5,000 books published by Oxford University Press in Law, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, and History. 

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The platform is published by Oxford University Press providing access to the series named Very Short Introductions with brief introduction to several topics such as Islamic studies, Sociology, Politics, Classics, History. 

The Library subscribes the Social sciences collection with around 100 full text titles.

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