Electronic resources A-Z List

Multi-publisher platform which contains e-journals and e-books mostly in Italian.

The Library subscribes the access to a collection of full text e-books published by Giappichelli and a selection of e-journals from the following publishers:

• Alinea Editrice
• Editoriale Scientifica
• Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane
• Egea
• Franco Angeli
• Leo S. Olschki
• Pacini Editore Srl
• Pisa University Press
• Rubbettino
• Sapienza Università Editrice
• Stem Mucchi Editore
• Viella
• Vita e Pensiero

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The database contains the publications of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): Journals, Transactions, Magazines, Newsletters, Proceedings.

In the Digital Library are also available bibliographic records, abstracts, reviews and full texts by other publishers in the disciplines of Information Technology, Applied Information Technology and Information Technology.

The resource includes the full-text archive of the previous years, starting with the first published issue. It includes access to the publications from the Special Interest Group (SIGs) and to the Guide to Computing Literature, the largest bibliographic database dedicated to these subjects.

Database of statistical and financial analyses, detailed financial statements in accordance with the IV EEC Directive, information on stakeholding and management for Italian companies.

The additional module of the Optical Financial Statements is also available, containing the original digitalized financial statements of the companies - including the descriptive notes, minutes of the shareholders' meeting, management report, report on corporate governance and ownership structures, report on remuneration, report of the auditing company - in a 10-year historical series, both for the consolidated financial statements and for the non-consolidated financial statements.

The add-on module on companies with "bankrupt" legal status is available.

To login see the guide How to access Moody's Analytics databases (formerly Bureau van Dijk).

Full text access to the 9 journals published by American Economic Association (AEA):

• AEA Papers and Proceedings
• American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
• American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
• American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
• American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
• American Economic Review
• American Economic Review: Insights
• Journal of Economic Literature
• Journal of Economic Perspectives

Forthcoming Articles are available for AEA members only and are not in included in the subscription.

Online citation database which provides access to a compilation of Italian periodicals. It contains over 100,000 bibliographic records of articles published since 1982 in over 150 Italian periodicals on general knowledge, such as: Aut Aut, Belfagor, Contemporanea, Critica Marxista, Economia della cultura, Filosofia politica, Limes, Micromega, and Rivista italiana di scienza politica.

The database contains the documentation assets in tax, corporate and business, and competition matters provided by Assonime. Within the restricted area of ​​the portal it is possible to access the following sections:

• Circulars (since 1986): studies on a reasoned selection of legislative measures and administrative and jurisprudential guidelines;
• Notes and Studies and Insights (since 1997): the papers produced by Assonime in collaboration also with other Institutions, and the notes, which draw general guidelines starting from the solution to specific problems of tax, corporate and business law and competition;
• The Case and e-news that investigate cases and Company law issues of particular interest that have emerged from practice or legislative changes;
• Tax Law (since 2005): containing the rulings on tax matters of the Court of Justice, the Constitutional Court and the Court of Cassation.

The Portal of the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development is online since 2016 with open access contents.

The ASviS was created to raise awareness in Italy of the importance of the 2030 Agenda for the sustainable development of the Country. It contains various materials, including:

• ASviS Report: in addition to providing updates on the international community's commitment to the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, signed by the Governments of 193 countries on 25 September 2015, the Report focuses on the national context and in particular on the state of progress of Italy with respect to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Published annually at the beginning of autumn, the Report is produced with the contribution of the ASviS working groups, made up of experts from the members.
• ASviS data: statistical resources updated periodically with the values ​​and trends of over 230 basic indicators, mainly from ISTAT sources, divided by Goal. The platform provides each indicator in three ways: graphs, maps and tables. It is also possible to download time series, export data, perform comparisons between regions and macro-regions on multiple indicators, including those of different Goals.
• Publications, articles, dossiers on the topic of sustainability in Italy.

The database contains information on public and private banks from around the world. The data is available in various formats including:

• Global Standard Format with 57 internationally standardized balance sheet items
• Global Detailed Format with over 650 internationally standardized variables
• National "as filed" Format, also in original language, with over 3,000 items
• 38 pre-calculated balance sheet ratios

Among the various modules that can be consulted there are:

• Ownership Manager and exponents (Contacts)
• Original Documents in pdf, which can also be reached by clicking on the individual financial indicators within the source
• News reports
• Factiva Dow Jones

To login see the guide How to access Moody's Analytics databases (formerly Bureau van Dijk).

The platform allows for the analysis and real-time monitoring of financial markets, as well as the ability to execute orders transmitted on electronic networks.

Financial and economic information for research and chronological analysis, even at high frequency (intraday data), on ordinary shares, market indices, bonds, credit ratings, company balance sheets, interest and exchange rates, macroeconomic data, futures and options, warrants, commodities, Bond Indices and CDS, ESG. The platform also allows you to analyze and monitor financial markets in real time.

A guide to basic functions by prof. Borri is available for students. Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC) certification can be obtained online (sign up on Bloomberg for Education entering your Luiss e-mail address) or on the Bloomberg terminals in Luiss seats by attending an course of 10 hours approximately (more information on BMC). Headphones are required to follow the course. 

At last, on the Bloomberg terminals it is possible to register and participate in the thematic webinars available on the platform:

• Getting started on the Bloomberg Terminal
• Bloomberg for students

Bloomberg Professional is accessible on-campus only.

See the guide How to access Bloomberg Professional.

BoardEx provides information and data relating to board members of most publicly traded companies in North America, the UK and Europe, and includes data on directors, senior executives and employees whose remuneration is disclosed in financial statements (disclosed earners).

It provides profiles of corporate executives (including certain demographics, education and career, compensation, board and committee members, etc.), as well as links between them and between companies.

Use BoardEx data for example to analyze connections between boards, their composition, data on remuneration and networks. The following datasets are available for each region with coverage from 1999 to 2024 (last update: November 2024):

• 01_Board Summary (summary of the composition of the Board by year, including salaries, committees, ratios, totals)
• 02_Committee Details (for each year and committee, members, their roles and status)
• 03_Company Announcements
• 04_Company Details (information on headquarters and contacts, capitalization, turnover, auditors and banks)
• 05_Company Network_mapped (for each company as it is related, through individuals, to other companies)
• 06_Compensation
• 07_Director Network_mapped (for each director as it is in relation, through other companies, to other individuals)
• 08_Director Profile - Various (characteristics, personal data, education, positions on and off the boards, other activities)
• 09_Org Analysis Averages (summary per year with statistical data relating to the board, average salaries, characteristics of the company)
• 10_SMDEs Company Announcements
• 11_SMDEs Compensation
• 12_SMDEs Network_mapped (for Senior Man agers and, where available, disclosed earners, how they relate, through other companies, to other individuals)
• 13_SMDEs Org Summary
• 14_SMDEs Profile - Various (for Senior Managers and, where available, disclosed earners, characteristics, personal data, education, positions within and off the boards, other activities).

The regions covered by the subscription are North America, Europe and the United Kingdom. The datasets are available in Excel, stored on a secure server of the University.

BPR (Bibliography of the Italian Parliament and electoral studies) is a citation database with references of books and journal articles concerning:

• the Italian Parliament since the granting of the Albertine Statute in 1848, thus including the parliamentary experience of the Savoy state, up to today;
• the National Council and the Constituent Assembly;
• electoral studies (laws, procedures, behavior), with reference to political elections in the same historical period both at national and local level.

The BPR includes legal studies but also studies conducted from a political point of view, organizational science, political sociology, as well as historiographical literature on the subject. Articles in newspapers and weekly magazines, parliamentary acts, sentences, laws and regulations are excluded.

Using documents in the public domain or on the basis of agreements with private and public publishers, it presents a selection of full-text documents (indexes of monographic works, sentences, periodical articles, contributions in miscellaneous works), attached to the bibliographic reference.

Since 2002, the BPR has also reported documents that can be found on the main legal websites.

The database is one of the richest academic sources with the full text of nearly 300,000 book chapters and journal articles covering, among others, the humanities and international law.

The Library subscribes access to the full electronic text of 12 periodicals published by Brill: 

• European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
• European Journal of Migration and Law
• International Community Law Review
• International Criminal Law Review
• International Journal of Parliamentary Studies
• International Organizations Law Review
• Nordic Journal of International Law
• The Hague Journal of Diplomacy
• The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law
• The Italian Yearbook of International Law Online
• The Journal of World Investment & Trade
• The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals

The database contains full text and bibliographic citations of articles taken from over 3,500 scientific, economic and social science periodicals (of which 2,000 ARE peer-reviewed) and from numerous other bibliographic sources.

It also gives access to 40,000 other materials, including e-books, Company Profiles, SWOT Analysis, Industry Reports (including those published by Datamonitor), Case Studies and Market Research Reports. You can navigate by subject through a Thesaurus created by EBSCO specialists. It also provides detailed information on over 1 million public and private companies.

From the Homepage it is also possible to select Econlit with Full Text and Historical Abstracts with Full Text databases to consult the databases at the same time. Online various in-depth materials on the use of Ebsco portals are available.

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The collection contains nearly 22,000 eBooks by Cambridge University Press related to the Social Sciences collection which includes the following disciplines: Anthropology, Archeology, Economics, History, Law, Management, Politics & International Relations, Psychology, Sociology.

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The collection contains over 400 peer-reviewed e-journals by Cambridge University Press related to the HSS - Humanities and Social Sciences and STM - Science, Technology and Medicine which include, among others, the following subject areas: Art, Business, Computer Science , Earth and Environmental Sciences, Economics, History, Law, Mathematics, Philosophy, Politics and International Relations, Social Studies, Statistics and Probability.

Collection of electronic textbooks published by Cambridge University Press on various disciplines. The Higher Education section includes more then 1.200 titles.

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Center for Art Law is an American nonprofit that offers educational resources and programming for the advancement of arts and law community. Created in 2009, today the Center is the only independent art law entity in the United States dedicated to writing, gathering, and sharing law and visual arts information.

The Premium Course Subscription provides:

• Individual account (discover how to register in the access guide using your Luiss credentials)
• access to the Center's archived materials including, where available, recordings of past webinars and workshops’ handouts
• access to the Case Law Corner (summaries of recent and ongoing art law litigation)
• access to over 1,100 relevant and editorially independent articles
• discounted tickets for upcoming events

On the platform the Center publishes articles, provides insights, and aggregate art law resources, including law firms, educational courses, books, films, artists’ assistance, and bar associations.

Their monthly newsletter, the “Art Law Blast”, is an engaging rundown of upcoming events, legal cases, recent news, publications, exhibitions, and more.

The Center organizes virtual and in-person conferences, lectures, workshops, screenings, and studio tours. They work closely with law schools, student societies, law firms, arts organizations, and bar associations to plan events and to offer networking opportunities.

To register an individual account see the guide How to access Center for Art Law.

The database collects the full text of more than 3,000 Discussion Papers published by the Center for Economic Research since 1998.

Cite Them Right is an online platform designed to advise students on how to reference correctly across eight referencing styles including Chicago, Harvard, APA, IEEE, MLA.
This platform contains articles and videos which help to guide students into common queries around referencing, including how to avoid plagiarism and understanding the differences between secondary and primary sources. For guidance, please refer to the help page.

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Online access to the complete collection of the courses held at the Hague Academy of International Law since 1923. These contributions by prestigious authors deal with the theoretical and practical aspects of the Law, including legislation and case law, with a particular focus on public and private international law.

The following Academy publications are also available:

• Special editions: a collection of handbooks on selected topics of international law;
• Publications of the Centre for Studies and Research: a selection of books that focus on some of the most topical and complex issues in international relations. Identified problems are studied from a broad global perspective by researchers from all over the world, combining, where appropriate, expertise in public and private international law.

Texts are available in Englis and French.

The database gives access to the full text of a large amount of books published by Il Mulino within its scientific research series dating back to 2000.

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The Library subscribes the following 10 titles published by De Gruyter: 

• The BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 
• The BE Journal of Macroeconomics 
• The BE Journal of Theoretical Economics 
• The Economists’ Voice
• Peace Economics
• Peace Science and Public Policy 
• Review of Law & Economics
• Historische Zeitschrift
• Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte
• Zeitschrift für Unternehmens- und Gesellschaftsrecht
• Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte

Dealroom is one of the most comprehensive global provider of data and intelligence on startups and tech ecosystems. Dealroom team works with many of the world's most prominent investors, entrepreneurs, and government organizations to provide transparency, analysis, and insights on venture capital activity.

Global data coverage includes:

• 3M+ companies globally
• 2.1M+ startups and 640K+ rounds
• 150K+ investors and 605K+ people
• 100+ data points on each company

Dealroom collects data combining machine learning and data engineering with robust verification processes and a strong network of ecosystems. Real-time data and predictive technology are used with powerful algorithms. More info about how Dealroom collects data are available here.

A new section dedicated to sectors, especially emerging ones, is available with an extremely detailed taxonomy.

Multiples: Comparisons can be made between key financial metrics from similar companies, such as EV/Revenue, EV/EBITDA, and a more comprehensive set of valuation multiples, which can be analyzed by geography or verticals.

Definitions, Features, and other relevant information on Dealroom are available on their Knowledge Base.

The database contains various archives:

Italian Cases

• Cases: pronounced by the Constitutional Court, the Civil and Criminal Cassation and other 64 authorities of both legitimacy and merit;
• Cases of the Civil Cassation: full text of a large selection starting from 1986 and full collection from 2006 onwards;
• Cases of the Criminal Court: full text of a large selection starting from 1995 and full collection from 2006 onwards (with the exception of those in section VII;
• Administrative Cases: full text of a wide selection of TAR and CdS sentences starting from 1998, of the Court of Auditors since 2001 and by the Councilor Giust. Amm of Sicily since 2005;
• Trials: full text of a vast selection of the most important trials issued in all Italian courts since 2001.

Legislative sources

• Legislative collection of provisions in text in force since 1945 and a wide selection of previous regulations. The texts are also reported in their historical text as originally published in the Official Gazette;
• Collection of Circulars, Notes, Resolutions starting from 1998;
• Regional and European legislation;
• Codes in current text with Preliminaries, implementing provisions and regulations. Enriched by editorial interventions and notes.

Legal doctrine

• Articles on jurisprudential rulings, taken from Giuffré magazines starting from 1995;
• Forms: procedural and extra-judicial formulas
• Bibliography: bibliographic research on doctrine since 1980
• Very latest: a review of the main news regarding jurisprudence, doctrine and legislation.

The work, which contains over 5,000 entries relating to the various legal fields, can be consulted within One Legale database in the "Ricerca per estremi" menu and shows the 4 sections that compose it (Private Law, civil and commercial section, Criminal Law and Public Law).

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

Legal doctrine repository with abstracts of articles published in over 450 Italian journals (including judgment notes, reviews, comments on legislation, conference papers, critical reviews).

Each record consists of: bibliographic citation of the single contribution; abstract, by ITTIG, indicative of the topics covered by the author and indicative of the theses supported; one or more classification codes that identify the legal area; details of the regulatory and jurisprudential sources cited by the author of the contribution, selected by the ITTIG.

Open access database to help researchers discovering historical and contemporary theses.

Created with the support of H.W. Wilson Foundation and the Congregational Library & Archives of Boston, it contains American Doctoral Dissertations previously published by EBSCO and features additional dissertation metadata provided by select colleges and universities around the world. 

Citation records with abstracts relating to international economic science literature (journal articles, monographs, conference proceedings, dissertations).

The database provides the full text of the reviews published by the Journal of Economic Literature since 1994 and the Index of Economic Articles.

The expanded version "with Full text" enriches the citation database of about 700 full-text e-journals including periodicals published by the American Economics Association without embargo.

Online various in-depth materials on the use of Ebsco portals.

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Digital library with a selection of books in Italian and English published by Egea in the field of Social Sciences and belonging to the Library's Course Reserves collection.

Through the Bookshelf reader it is possible to highlight or insert personal notes within the volume which will also be available in subsequent accesses to the title. 

Read aloud function available. Cannot export or print.

Faculty can access Egea services following a different procedure reserved to teachers: those who would like to evaluate the acquisition of one or more titles, even if not subscribed by the Library, can register an individual account here with a professor profile indicating a maximum of 3 areas of interest, then on the following page in the My Egea books section they will be able to access all the ebooks related to the areas of interest previously indicated. Requests will be evaluated by the publisher.

See the guide How to access Egea Digitabook.

Digital library with a selection of books published by Edward Elgar Publishing in the field of Social Sciences and the complete 2018 Law Collection.

It also contains some reference works: 

• Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management
• Encyclopedia of Law and Economics
• Encyclopedia of Private International Law
• Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law

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Handbooks published by Elsevier and available in full text.

1. Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science
2. Handbook of Statistics
3. Handbook of Numerical Analysis
4. Handbook of Sports and Lottery Markets
5. Handbooks in Economic Series with several titles

Access is provided by the Science Direct platform also for searching within the Elsevier journals subscribed by the Library.

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Electronic Reference works published by Elsevier.

The Library subscribes:

• Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics (2. ed., 2012)
• Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resource, and Environmental Economics (2013)
• Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine (2005)
• Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications (2003)
• Encyclopedia of Social Measurement 82005)
• Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, & Conflict (2. ed., 2008)

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The Freedom Collection by Elsevier ScienceDirect contains the complete text of about 2,500 journals published by the Elsevier since 1995.

The social sciences journals present in the database are over 600. The Library also subscribes to 4 disciplinary collections - Business, Management and Accounting , Decision Sciences, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Social Science - with the full text starting from the 1st issue and up to 1994.

Collection of over 300 publications published by Emerald Group Publishing.

Access is guaranteed, where available, since 1986.

On-line citation database with the records of Italian journals in the fields of economics, social sciences, law and history.

It contains citations of articles published since 1982 in over 850 periodicals.

The platform provides support for academic research in the field of EU law and policy.

The repository contains about 12,000 content related to Community law, including the Weekend Editions, an ever-increasing number of analyzes, podcasts and news. The thematic areas covered are many, including: Institutional Law, Data Tech & IP, Covid-19, Human Rights, Emplyment & Immigration.

For each section the accessible documents are: analysis, editorial comments, insights, news and op-eds. The contributions show a mirror hyperlink to the official source of the legislation or jurisprudence cited.

Online information service in the economic and financial fields created by Factiva, a company of the Dow Jones & Reuters group.

The platform provides through a single interface more than 25,000 information sources from 159 countries and in 22 languages. Major newspapers available include: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, Financial Times, Les Echos, South China Morning Post, Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald, Straits Times , Yomiuri Shimbun, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The Irish Times.

Among the sources in Italian there are ANSA, Corriere della Sera, La Stampa, La Repubblica, Italia Oggi and Il Sole 24 Ore (from 2001 to 2007).

Note: the massive extraction of the contents (text mining) is not allowed by the subscribed license.

The FT.com online platform includes:

• updated contents of ft.com in real time
• 15 years of Financial Times archive (https://www.ft.com/todaysnewspaper/archive)
• the ePaper Access service, with the possibility of downloading the electronic facsimile PDF version of the 5 editions of the FT Newspaper (UK, Europe, US, Middle East, Asia: https://www.ft.com/todaysnewspaper).
• access to news relating to the 4 regional editions of FT (UK, US, Asia, Europe)
• comments from columnists readily available
• Markets data: database of commodities, bonds & rates, indices, and listed companies
• Special reports: archive of reports both in PDF and navigable
• News In-Depth: constantly updated archive on hot topics and events
• FT App: for Android and Apple at the page https://subs.ft.com/ft-app (same access methods of the website)

See the guide How to access Financial Times (Ft.com).

The Foreign Law Guide (FLG) is an essential database offering relevant information on sources of foreign and comparative law, including complete bibliographic citations to legislation, the existence of English translations and selected references to secondary sources.

The print publication began in the 1990s and moved to the web in 2000.

Approximately 190 jurisdictions are systemically covered and updated by a global team of experts.

Each jurisdiction has a “main page” where you will find information on the government and legal system, primary sources of law, other print and online sources that are useful, and laws of the jurisdiction arranged by subject. 

More information on the contents and how to use:

• Video User Guide
• Tips for Effective Browsing

The database includes several sections:

• Riviste de Il Foro Italiano: browsable issues since 2013.
• Riviste La Tribuna: available in PDF format from 2010 onward, or from the first issue for more recent publications..
• Biblioteca Volumi: full text of Codici, Codici commentati, Codici Pocket, Formulari and preparation materials for Concorsi published by La Tribuna.
• Gli Speciali de Il Foro Italiano: full text of special monographic issues published from 2020 on.

From simple and advanced search you can access to various archives: Giurisprudenza (cases), Normativa (4 codes and complementary laws), Dottrina (articles and case notes published on La Tribuna and Il Foro Italiano journals), Bibliografia (includes bibliographic references published in Repertorio de Il Foro Italiano), Formulari, Prassi, Commentario.

The Library provides access to a selection of books published by Giuffrè (later Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre) which had been purchased since 2007.

Online historical archive of 45 journals published by Giuffrè (later Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre).

Over 5,000 issues since 1975 that faithfully reproduce the structure and graphics of the printed version. The main titles contained are:

• AIDA: Annali italiani del diritto d'autore, della cultura e dello spettacolo (dal 2001)
• Banca Borsa e Titoli di Credito (dal 1975)
• Cassazione Penale (dal 1975)
• Concorrenza e Mercato (dal 2001)
• Diritto del Commercio Internazionale (dal 1987)
• Diritto dell'Informazione e dell'Informatica (dal 1985)
• Diritto di Famiglia e delle Persone (dal 1975)
• Giurisprudenza Commerciale (dal 1975)
• Responsabilità Civile e Previdenza (dal 1975)
• Rivista dei Dottori Commercialisti (dal 1975)
• Rivista del Notariato (dal 1975)
• Rivista dell'arbitrato (dal 1991)
• Rivista delle Società (dal 1975)
• Rivista di Diritto Industriale (dal 1975)
• Rivista di Diritto Internazionale (dal 1975)
• Rivista Italiana di Diritto del Lavoro (dal 1975)
• Rivista Italiana di Diritto e Procedura Penale (dal 1975)
• Rivista Italiana di Medicina Legale (dal 1979)
• Rivista trimestrale di diritto pubblico (dal 1975)

Online version of the Encyclopedia of Law published by Giuffré which provides over 4,200 entries relating to different legal fields. The materials are the same of the printed work plus the contents of the Annals starting from 2008.

The Library provides access to the journals published by Giappichelli in the field of Law and Economics. Each journals has its own website:

• Assicurazioni: rivista di diritto, economia e finanza delle assicurazioni private
• Diritto ed economia dell'impresa
• Giurisprudenza arbitrale
• Il diritto dell'Unione europea
• Il diritto fallimentare e delle società commerciali: rivista di dottrina e giurisprudenza
• The Italian review of international and comparative law
• Il lavoro nelle pubbliche amministrazioni
• Il nuovo diritto delle società: NDS
• Massimario di giurisprudenza del lavoro
• Processo penale e giustizia
• Rivista AIAF
• Rivista di corporate governance
• Rivista di diritto societario: RDS
• Rivista di diritto sportivo
• Rivista trimestrale di diritto tributario
• Tax news: supplemento online alla Rivista trimestrale di diritto tributario
• Variazioni su temi di diritto del lavoro

Giappichelli also publishes open access journals on different topics: AI Law: International review of artificial intelligence law, Filosofia e questioni pubbliche/Philosophy and public issues, Jus civile, Law Art, Rivista della regolamentazioni dei mercati, Rivista orizzonti del diritto commerciale. Access is free upon registration.

The Library provides access to a selection of books published by Giappichelli from 2007 to 2021, plus the entire collection published from 2022 in the field of Social Sciences with particular focus on Law and Economics. The full texts can be accessed online through a renewable 15-day digital loan.

The journal, published by the Italian Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato since 1999 and by Editoriale Scientifica S.r.l. starting from 2019, is a research tool in the field of administrative law.

The database allows to search for all the documents of greatest interest on the subject, issued from the 1990s to today.

In particular, 3 archives are available:

• Giurisprudenza: trials by the T.A.R., by the Italian Council of State, and by other ordinary and special judicial courts;
• Dottrina: articles, essays, reports, conference proceedings and studies by authoritative legals and scholars of public law;
• Legislazione: acts and administrative practice, with official text, commentary notes, doctrinal and jurisprudential references, as well as pending legislation and suspensive orders.

Large collection of documents for legal research divided into several libraries among which the Library subscribes:

• Law Journal Library: full text of over 3,000 e-journals;
• Foreign & International Law Resources Database (FILRD): collection dedicated to International Law, includes the full text of about 4,000 publications including those of the American Society of International Law ;
• Legal Classics: full text of over 20,000 e-books selected from the great classics of legal literature;
• World Constitutions Illustrated: archive containing the complete texts in the original language and English translation of the Constitutions of all the countries of the world, accompanied by comments and resources relating to the constitutional and political history of the Country;

HeinOnline also gives access to the complete archive of the U.S. Treaties and Agreements and other legal material such as the Federal Register, the U.S. Reports, the English Reports online edition, as well as archives dedicated to US presidents and elections Presidential Library and U.S. Presidential Impeachment Library.

Heinonline Academic Core International also includes special collections on specific topics, including:

• Civil Rights and Social Justice: collection that collects e-books, academic articles, legislative documentation and jurisprudence, mostly American, dedicated to civil rights;
• COVID-19 in America: Response, Issues, and Law;
• LGBTQ+ Rights: collection of materials and interactive timeline relating to the gay rights movement in America, from 1950;
• Women and the Law (Peggy): collection that brings together books, biographies, and periodicals dedicated to the role and to the rights of women in society.

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Electronic news service tracking cross-border arbitrations between foreign investors and their host governments. Covers lawsuits and policy developments related to nationalizations, privatizations, and other regulatory disputes. Includes a database of cases summaries.

The platform provides the most important publications by the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation.

The Library can access the following archives:

• E-Journals: Asia-Pacific Tax Bulletin, Bulletin for International Taxation, European Taxation, Finance and Capital Markets (former Derivatives and Financial Instruments), International Tax Studies, International Transfer Pricing Journal, International VAT Monitor , Talking Points, World Tax Journal;
• E-Books: 245 e-books published by the IBFD from 2000 to present Case Law, News, Tables.
• Treaties & Models: international tax agreements and models, both in the official language versions and English translations. Includes protocols and amendments, FATCA, supplementary agreements and exchanges of notes.
• Case Law: access to important decisions of national courts around the globe, with summaries. All the collections include convenient cross-references to relevant case law. Covers domestic direct tax and VAT law, tax treaty case law and European Court of Justice decisions on direct and indirect taxes.

By registering with your Luiss institutional account, you activate the following features:

1. save a document to your favorites
2. create annotations
3. customize the Tax News email service

Also available on the platform are:

1. the Tables that allow you to compare the tax elements of the various countries;
2. a Glossary with over 5,000 entries on taxation and related Organizations, Treaties and Courts;
3. a series of Webinars visible live or on demand, held by IBFD experts.

The e-Library of the International Monetary Fund provides access to the publications (periodicals, books, working papers and studies) produced by the IMF, as well as to the statistics and economics data platform (http://data.imf.org).

The topics covered by the IMF are in particular: macroeconomic data, globalization, development, trade, demographic analysis, emerging markets, poverty reduction.

The publications are available for download in several digital formats: PDF, ePUB, XML and Mobi.

The main e-Journals available are: World Economic Outlook, Global Financial Stability Report, Fiscal Monitor, Regional Economic Outlook reports, Research Bulletin, IMF Survey, IMF Staff Papers, Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions.

The main statistical databases available are:

• International Financial Statistics (IFS): 32,000 time series relating to over 200 countries regarding Exchange Rates and Exchange Rate Arrangements, Fund Accounts, Government Finance, Interest Rates, International Liquidity, International Transactions, Monetary Statistics, National Accounts and Population, Prices, Production, and Labor. The data are also available in the IFS Yearbook.
• Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS): provides data relating to export and import, especially: Composition of country, world, and area pages, Consistency between partner country data, Currency, Estimation procedures. The data is also available in the DOTS Yearbook.
• Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPS): reports the aggregate and detailed time series for the balance of payments and international investments of countries. The data is also available in the BOPS Yearbook.
• Government Finance Statistics (GFS): contains statistical data on the financial operations of the governments of 156 countries. The data is also available within the GFS Yearbook.

Essential Science Indicators provides tools to analyze and compare Research performance, identify significant trends, rank the best performers, and evaluate potential employees and collaborators.

The numerical indicators of ESI are based on 11,727 journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index) for a period of 10 years.

Citation counts for these articles are from journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index). ESI indicators are calculated on 11 years of data. The database is updated six times a year.

The platform provides access to the e-journals published by INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences).

The Library subscribes all the titles starting from the first available issue, some of the most relevant titles are:

• Operations Research
• Management Science
• Mathematics of Operations Research
• Marketing Science
• Organization Science

Online version of the encyclopedia published in 2011 by SAGE and edited by Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser and Leonardo Morlino.

The work treats the main topics in political science, including comparative politics, epistemology, economic politics, political sociology and international relations.

The database by Il Centro di Documentazione della Corte di Cassazione provides access to several archives:

• the jurisprudence of the civil and criminal Supreme Court, the Council of State, the Court of Auditors, of the TAR;
• the jurisprudence of the ECHR;
• state (with the original PDF of the G.U 1860 to 1946), regional, community legislation;
• the full text of the sentences of the Constitutional Court;
• the doctrine (since 1970).

Italian platform by Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre specialized in legal information for in-depth study and updating of the legal professional. Collects latest articles published by GFL authors commenting main jurisprudence and new legislation, explores with focus and news the following subjects subscribed by the Library:

• Criminal Law
• Civil procedure
• Family Law
• Labor Law
• Bankruptcy and other insolvency proceedings
• Corporate Law
• Tax Law
• Administrative law

This new GFL platform replaces: Il Fallimentarista, Il Familiarista, Il Giuslavorista, Il Penalista, Il Processo Civile, Il Societario, Il Tributario, L’Amministrativista.

At the end of the consultation, please close the session by clicking on "Exit".

Iusimpresa is an online citational database consisting of the counting of Italian and foreign periodicals, monographs and case notes.

When available, it provides the direct link to the full text online or to the index. The research is integrated with a glossary and a directory of jurisprudence.

JCR provides information and tools to determine the scientific impact of periodicals in the fields of science and social science.

The data is derived from over 11,000 journals chosen as the most important and cited worldwide in the two categories.

The following statistical tools are available:

• the Impact Factor, which allows to determine the importance of a journal compared with others in the same scientific sector;
• the Immediacy Index, which measures how quickly a journal article is cited on average and how often journal articles are cited in the same year;
• the Cited Half Life, which measures the validity of the cited articles over time.

Access to all the academic journals and to the Primary sources collections in JSTOR. Both Multi-discipline archive collections and Discipline-specific archive collections are included.

Coverage is for all the journals from the first published issue, but there is a 3-6 years embargo (Moving Wall).

An interactive research tool has been activated in JSTOR. This tool employs AI and other technologies to to deepen and expand  research with JSTOR’s trusted corpus. To use the tool an individual free registration is needed.

The platform provides access to the full text of 21 journals pblished by Kluwer Law International, in particular: Business Law Review, Common Market Law Review, EC Tax Review, European Review of Private Law e Legal Issue of Economic Integration.

The digital platform is published by Kluwer Law International.

It contains e-books in law also discoverable by fields or browsing from the homepage.

Main topics: Antitrust, Competition Law, Arbitration, Litigation & Mediation, Banking, Commercial Law, Comparative Law, Corporate Law, Energy & Environmental Law, European Union Law, Intellectual Property, International Law, Labor & Employment Law, Tax Law, Trade Law and Transportation Law.

The platform collects e-books published by Wolters Kluwer Italia: Cedam, Ipsoa e UTET Giuridica.

The Library provides access to a selection of titles published starting from 2005.

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

Italian journal of public law directed by Giovanni Virga, also reporting documents published in the Giust.it.

It contains three main archives with doctrine, jurisprudence, and legislation database.

Historical series (financial and macro data) and financial data on common stocks, market indices, bonds, interest and exchange rates, macroeconomic data, Futures and Options, Warrants, Commodities, Bond Indices and CDS.

It also contains IBES estimates, Worldscope balance sheet data and ASSET4 Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance (ESG) data. Access to the data is through the Excel add-in.

At the terminals of the Library's Economics Room (library01@luiss.it user) users can also access the following J.P. Morgan Indices: EMBI (Emerging Market Bond Index), GBI (Government Bond Index), GBI-EM (Government Bond Index-Emerging Markets).

The Library also provides an Academic Staff add-on license, which allows users to download data without limitations via Excel, for verified study or research purposes.

Datastream Charting is the graphical analysis tool which is integrated in Excel to download a wide range of graphs on the above contents (also for current affairs and News) and / or to create customizable graphs and transfer them to Power Point, Word, Excel. The Datastream series are also integrated on the Refinitiv Workspace platform.

Webinars and specific trainings are available on Refinitiv Academy. More information on the contents and how to use: LSEG Refinitiv web page and video tutorial.

For the free LSEG Certification program visit the page LSEG certification program.

See the guide How to access LSEG Workspace and Datastream.

LSEG (former Refinitiv) Workspace for students provides access to financial data (real time and intraday) on ordinary shares, market indices, bonds (corporate and government), bond indices and CDS credit default swaps, interest rates and foreign exchange, macroeconomic data, Derivatives: Futures and Options, Warrants, Commodities, Bond Indices and CDS. The data download (historical series and real time) can also be done through the Excel add-in.

It also contains data on unlisted companies, forecast and consensus data (estimates from Ibes) as well as details of the estimates of individual brokers (target price and recommendations), balance sheet data (standardized, from Worldscope source) and as reported by Companies, ASSET4Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance (ESG) data. It gives access to:

• Portfolio analysis tools
• data on M&A (M&A Merger and Acquisition, ECM Equity Capital Market, DCM Debt Capital Market, Loans Syndication)
• data on business administration composition corporate structures (Holding and subsidiaries)
• data on shareholder composition (Ownership and Shareholders)
• Reuters news and other news sources

Webinars, video tutorial, training and specific guides for the use of the database are available on LSEG Learning Centre. 

For the free LSEG Certification program visit the page LSEG certification program.

It also integrates some of the data available in Datastream and ThomsonOne.

At the terminals of the Library's Economics Room (biblioteca01@luiss.it user) users can also access the following J.P. Morgan Indexes: EMBI (Emerging Market Bond Index), GBI (Government Bond Index), GBI-EM (Government Bond Index-Emerging Markets).

The Library also provides an Academic Staff add-on license, which allows users to download data without limitations via Excel, for verified study or research purposes.

See the guide How to access LSEG Workspace and Datastream.

MarketLine provides a large amount of information in economics and finance:

• 8.600 Industry profiles (data and market analysis);
• 100.000 Company profiles;
• Cities profiles;
• Country profiles;
• Case Studies;
• Company News and informative records on M&A (Financial Deals).

Through the platform it also available the access to specific databases and analysis tools:

• Country Statistics (macroeconomic and demographic indicators for over 200 countries, historical and forecast);
• City Statistics (historical and forecast data for social and macroeconomic indicators relating to over 1,950 cities in the world);
• Company Prospector (analysis of companies and construction of lists of potential partners, customers or investment targets in the sectors and countries of interest);
• Market Data Analytics (market analysis relating to approximately 50 countries and over 30 market sectors; allows you to view and download historical and forecast data since 2000 on: Market Value, Market Volumes, Company Shares, Brand Shares, Distribution);
• Value & Supply Chain Analysis (comprehensive analysis to evaluate market size, forecasts, trends, leading companies, the distribution chain and its interaction with other markets or sectors);
• Industry Statistics Database (built-in interactive charts to quickly understand market growth trends, compare metrics across geographies, and evaluate along with macro data series such as GDP and population). The database is integrated in the Industry Data Work Folders module which allows a comparison between the various international markets and export raw data to Excel to be able to process them using statistical software;
• Influencers Database (profiling of leaders and key success factors of a number of emerging technologies in the fields of macroeconomics, geopolitics, sustainability, demographics, artificial intelligence, BlockChain and well-being).

News and information about Case Studies and Reports: http://www.marketline.com/blog/.

Free training webinar: https://www.globaldata.com/industries-we-cover/professional-services/customer-success-training-calendar/.

Resource Centre (Cross-Industry Webinars, Podcasts, and Training): https://hs.globaldata.com/globaldata-webinars-podcast-and-training

Download the how-to guide using the Luiss credentials.

The database, which includes Mathematical Reviews (MR) and Current Mathematical Publications (CMP), covers the international literature relating to mathematics since 1864: there are over 2 million records. Over 700,000 report the direct link to the full text of the document.

The records, including reviews, concern articles taken from approximately 1,800 international mathematical journals, as well as 7,500 monographs, proceedings, doctoral theses and annual technical reports. Papers are indexed through the international classification scheme for Mathematical Subject Classification, which contains over 5,000 entries.

Electronic and continuously updated version of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law published in print in subsequent editions between 1991 and 2001 and, starting from 2004, also online.

Since September 2019, the platform also allows access to the Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law, a bibliographic source specialized in international procedural law.

Digital library with a selection of books in Italian and English published by McGraw-Hill in the field of Social Sciences and belonging to the Library's Course Reserves collection.

Through the Bookshelf reader it is possible to highlight or insert personal notes within the volume which will also be available in subsequent accesses to the title. Notes are also exportable to OneNote.

Read aloud function available. Find out more about the accessibility policy.

Cannot export or print.

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The platform provides access to over 7,000 national and international newspapers and magazines.

Titles can be consulted in the same version of the original:

• Main newspapers: Corriere della Sera (national edition and local editions), Il Fatto newspaper, Il Tempo, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Le Figaro, Libération, Le Temps, El Pais, El Mundo, Der Tagesspiegel.
• Main specialist journals: L'Economia (Corriere della Sera), Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, Financial Planning, China Economist, Newsweek, The New York Review of Books, Jeune Afrique, Le Point, Alternatives Economiques, El Financiero, El Economista.
• Main general publications with a wide circulation: Wired, Vanity Fair, Focus, La Cucina italiana, DOVE, AD, Cosmopolitan, Storica National Geographic, Conde Nast Traveler, Rolling Stone, Yoga Journal.

Access also via the Pressreader app for iPhone and iPad or the Android app: access the MLOL website and then the Pressreader app, you are automatically recognized and access is kept in memory for 1 week.

See the guide How to access MLOL Digital Library.

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Datasets provided by MSCI relating to ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) indicators with coverage from 2007 to 2024 (last update: May 2024). They cover approximately 8,500 companies worldwide (14,000 total issuers, including subsidiaries). For each there are key metrics covering the board of directors, compensation, ownership and control, accounting.

The datasets are available in Excel format, stored on a server of the University.

More information: https://www.msci.com/our-solutions/esg-investing/esg-ratings.

The platform offers an information, training and in-depth analysis service, updated in real time, on current Italian legislation and regulatory changes.

Access to the Daily Newspaper and the archive of Il Sole 24 ore (complete historical archive in pdf of the issues published since 1920), professional journals (including the Law Guide, Accounting and Budget Guide and Work Guide ) and Biblioteca24 (archive of the 24 ORE Group guides) through the “My products” box (scrolling through the homepage on the right).

The contents of the platform are grouped into macro-areas distinct by subject, in which documentary archives, comments, expert analysis, and jurisprudence.

See the guide How to access My Desk 24 (Il Sole 24 Ore).

Complete collection of the Working Papers published by the National Bureau of Economic Research starting from the 1st issue of 1973. Most of the Working Papers are accompanied by abstracts. The full text of the NBER Digest starting from April 2001 and the table of contents of the monographs published by the NBER in collaboration with other publishing houses starting from 1997 and most of the contents of the forthcoming works are also available.

Second edition (2008) of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics is considered a fundamental reference work by economists as it reflects the current state of the economy. The online edition contains 1,977 entries, of which over 1,000 were written for the 2nd edition. Access is also provided to over 1,900 entries from the original 1987 edition.

Legal and economic information platform designed for academic research. It provides access to over 35,000 sources, including news, legal information, business, international legislation, newspapers and the FT Financial Times full-text cover-to-cover, as well as company and country profiles, demographic and market research , reports and industrial analyzes.

Regarding legal information, it documents American and European legislation and jurisprudence, most of the full-text English-language legal journals including the major journals of American law schools, ABA publications, as well as all the Case American Law, Administrative Codes, Federal and State, etc.

On Nexis Uni are also available the Restatements of the Law, a set of treatises on specific legal subjects published by the American Law Institute (ALI), that harmonize and consolidate American Common Law.

As regards business and financial information, Nexis Dossier includes information on over 280 million companies and allows to examine the profiles of companies and of the executives who manage them, along with: annual reports; SEC filings; bankruptcy reports; corporate affiliations; mergers and acquisitions operations.

The TotalPatent One section gives access to a database of patent literature aggregated by LexisNexis, consisting of the full-text documentation of the 32 main international Patent Authorities, as well as the bibliographic data and abstracts of a further 68 patent offices. The collection includes: full-text patents, images, citations, legal status, and patent families.

The CSRhub ESG Ratings dedicated to environmental, social and governance performance are also integrated into the Nexis Uni interface. They cover almost 30,000 companies for which scorecards are available with the rating value and breakdown by category. Ratings are determined by analyzing aggregated data from SRI analysis firms, over 600 government agencies, non-governmental agencies, news feeds (source: CSRHub LLC.).

NRG Metrics Family business dataset provides information on the family's involvement in companies based in a large number of countries. It provides information on whether the company's CEO/Chairman is a family member and who specifically the person is (i.e., founder or descendant). Additionally, it provides information on the number of family members sitting on the board,  It also provides information on the equity stake retained by the founding family as well as whether the family is the largest shareholder in the company. Finally, it classifies companies as family or non-family firms using 19 different definitions of family businesses used in the literature.

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

Starting from 01/07/2024 OECD is Open Access.

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.

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

• Patent filing entities are linked to a global database of financial 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 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 Moody's Analytics databases (formerly Bureau van Dijk).

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

Orbis is the data resource on private companies for financial analysis relating to 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 data according to the available archived data;
• 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 Moody's Analytics databases (formerly Bureau van Dijk).

Access to over 140 electronic journals published by Oxford related to: Arts and Humanities, Law, Medicine and Health, Science and Mathematics and 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), 2015-2025
• Philosophy: Foundation (before 2012)
• Political Science: Foundation (before 2012), 2012-2025

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Textbooks platform published by Oxford University Press in the field of Law. The Library subscribes the EU Law 2024 collection with the following full text titles:

• EU Law: Text, Cases, & Materials, 8th edition (2024), Craig & De Búrca
• Competition Law, 11th edition (2024), Whish & Bailey
• 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, 8th 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
• 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

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Textbooks platform published by Oxford University Press in the field of Politics. The library subscribes the Full collection 2024 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:

• Introduction to International Relations, 9th edition (2025), Sørensen & Møller
• Critiquing the Canon: Political Theory, 1st edition (2024), Bird
• Foreign Policy Analysis, 1st edition (2024), Brummer & Oppermann
• Comparative European Politics, 2nd edition (2024), Costello & Robinson
• International Relations Theories, 6th edition (2024), Dunne et al
• Global Political Economy, 7th edition (2024), Hannah & Ravenhill
• International Relations Theories, 1st edition (2024), Lawler
• Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases, 4th edition (2024), Smith et al
• Comparative Politics, 6th edition (2023), Caramani
• Introduction to Politics, 5th edition (2023), Garner, Ferdinand, and Lawson
• Security Studies: Critical Perspectives, 1st edition (2023), Guillaume & Grayson
• International Relations and the European Union, 4th edition (2023), Hill, Smith, and Vanhoonacker
• Global Politics, 1st edition (2023), Hirst et al
• European Political Economy, 1st edition (2023), Moschella, Quaglia, and Spendzharova
• Global Political Economy, 1st edition (2023), Philips
• Rethinking Political Thinkers, 1st edition (2023), Ramgotra & Choat
• Critiquing the Canon: International Relations Theory, 1st edition (2023), Sabaratnam
• The Globalization of World Politics, 9th edition (2022), Baylis, Smith, and Owens
• Strategy in the Contemporary World, 7th edition (2022), Baylis, Wirtz, and Johnson
• I-PEEL: The International Political Economy of Everyday Life, 1st edition (2022), Brassett et al
• European Union Politics, 7th edition (2022), Cini & Perez-Solorzano Borragan
• Human Rights: Theory and Practice, 4th edition (2022), Goodhart
• Contemporary Terrorism Studies, 1st edition (2022), Muro & Wilson
• An Introduction to Political Philosophy, 4th edition (2022), Wolff
• UK Politics, 1st edition (2021), Blick
• Foundations of European Politics, 1st edition (2021), de Vries et al
• The Politics of the Earth, 4th edition (2021), Dryzek
• Research Methods in the Social Sciences, 1st edition (2021), Morin, Olsson, and Atikcan
• Politics of International Law, 1st edition (2021), Sørensen, Møller, and Jackson
• Political Research: Methods and Practical Skills, 3rd edition (2020), Halperin & Heath
• 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, and Bryman

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The digital encyclopedia, published by Oxford University Press, is peer-reviewed and continuously updated by leading scholars and researchers worldwide. It currently includes over 1,500 entries.

The work examines all major areas of political science, including international political economy, political philosophy, groups and identities, political change and governance, and qualitative and quantitative methodology.

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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, specialized in business, career development, data science, security e software development, offers thousands of e-books from O'Reilly and other international academic publishers, audiobooks, over 30,000 hours of video, and resources such as case studies, courses and expert playlists.

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Pandoracampus is a platform for the digital lending of a selection of handbooks published by Il Mulino, De Agostini Scuola (ISEDI e UTET Università), and Carocci. The collection contains almost 140 titles in Politics both in Italian and in English. If available, access is also provided to any supplementary materials, such as exercises, flashcards and insights. 

It is possible to work on books by underlining, copying portions of text and inserting annotations or questions. Special attention is paid to accessibility: you can choose between three different text sizes, select from five available typefaces, including OpenDyslexic, a font made to be particularly suitable for reading dyslexic people, change the color combination of the content. Furthermore, a speech synthesis function is integrated inside the reader for reading aloud.

Students can borrow 2 books at the same time up to 90 days (60 days for standard loans). If the activation of the lending is made accidentally, you can ask for the cancellation within 6 days by writing an e-mail to biblioteca@luiss.it.

Students: access through IDEM authentication or through a personal registration with Luiss account (@studenti.luiss.it). See the guide How to access Pandoracampus.

Faculty can access Pandoracampus services following a different procedure reserved to teachers: for those professors who would like to evaluate the acquisition of one or more titles, it is required to fulfill a registration and ask for the free access. Requests will be evaluated by the publisher.

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Digital Library with a selection of books published by Pearson in the field of Social Sciences which belong to the Library's Course Reserves. 

Using the Bookshelf Reader it is possible to underline the text or write notes which can be exported in OneNote. It is available the option of the loud reading. Books can not be exported or printed.

To access the Bookshelf Reader it is required to fulfill a free registration with the Luiss account. The offline reading is allowed once the app Bookshelf has been downloaded on personal devices. The title will be available in Bookshelf up to 24h also renewable.

Accessibility Policy

Online Library with unlimited access to over 900,000 textbooks and academic resources by several national and international publishers such as Pearson, Routledge, Simon&Schuster, Kaplan, Bloomsbury, Princeton University Press, Yale University Press, Cengage Learning, Wiley, LUISS University Press, Laterza, Mondadori.

The platform provides tools to highlight, save notes, and create reading lists to be shared with the academic community. Titles are interdisciplinary with numerous topics from Arts to Economics, from Law to STEM.

See the guides for further information:

• Tutorial for students;
• Tutorial for professors.

See the guide How to access Perlego.

Accessibility Policy