Electronic resources A-Z List

The database contains information on over 43,000 public and private banks from around the world. The data (with a time series up to 7 years) 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

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Open access  dictionary edited by the scientific committee of the National Association for the Encyclopedia of the Bank and the Stock Exchange (Assonebb). Available in Italian and English, it is a collaborative digital encyclopedia that is not open, in which new entries are checked by the editorial staff and by the scientific committee of Assonebb to guarantee the scientific quality. It contains contributions relating to the banking and financial system of an economic, legal, social and institutional nature.

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 14 periodicals published by Brill: 

• African Yearbook of International Law;
• International Community Law Review;
• International Journal of Marine & Coastal Law;
• International Organizations Law Review;
• Italian Yearbook of International Law;
• Journal of the History of International Law = Revue d'histoire du droit international;
• Journal of World Investment & Trade;
• Law & Practice of International Courts & Tribunals;
• Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations;
• Nordic Journal of International Law;
• Ocean Yearbook;
• Oriente Moderno;
• Perspectives on Global Development & Technology;
• Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis = Revue d'Histoire du Droit = The Legal History Review.

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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