Electronic resources A-Z List

Collection of electronic textbooks published by Cambridge University Press on various disciplines. The Cambridge Aspite platform includes more then 1.250 titles.

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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.

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.

Compustat Financials provides standardized North American and global financial statements and market data for over 80,000 active and inactive publicly traded companies.

Compustat North America:

• Fundamental and market data for active and inactive companies covering approximately 30.000 U.S. companies that trade on a U.S. or Canadian Exchange. Annual, quarterly and monthly data is available from 1979 forward. 7 years of segment history data is included and daily market data from 1984
• Historical fundamental data for North American companies with annual data from 1950 and quarterly restated data from 1962
• Historical Annual and Quarterly Fundamental data for Banks and S&L companies. Coverage includes over 2000 active and inactive banks and thrifts with history beginning in 1962.

Compustat Global: financial and market data, covering publicly traded companies in more than 80 countries (non-U.S. and non-Canadian marketplace). Company data are normalized to provide comparability across a wide variety of global accounting standards and practices.

Access requires prior registration on the page https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/register/luissu/ and is subject to approval by library staff (according to support hours).

Available functionalities vary depending on the type of account requested.

CRSP - Center for Research in Security Prices data available through the WRDS platform. Access is provided to the following datasets:

• CRSP 1925 US Stock Database (Monthly)
  • monthly market data and corporate actions for over 32,000 active and inactive U.S. securities
  • data covering NYSE, NYSE American, NYSE Arca, NASDAQ, S&P 500 Composite, and Cboe BZX securities
  • key data items include: price and quote data ( open, close, bid/low, ask/high, trade-only), holding period returns with and without dividends, excess returns and , other derived data items, market capitalization, shares outstanding, trading volume, security delisting information, corporate actions, identifiers, descriptors, and supplemental data items
• CRSP 1925 US Indexes Database (Monthly)
  • comprehensive collection of research-grade indexes that benchmark U.S. equity and U.S. Treasury performance, including nominal and inflation-adjusted returns
  • it includes cap-weighted and equal-weighted indexes, decile portfolios, S&P/NASDAQ composites, Treasury-maturity series, and CPI-linked indexes
  • key data items include: equal- and value-weighted index returns, with and without distributions, levels, and counts, S&P Composite Index level and price-only returns, NASDAQ Composite Index level and returns, risk-based indexes and decile portfolio equal-weighted returns, levels, and counts
• CRSP/COMPUSTAT Merged Database (Monthly)
  • the database provides the historical matching of CRSP market and corporate action data with Compustat fundamental data
• CRSP Survivor-Bias-Free US Mutual Funds Database (Quarterly)
  • mutual fund dataset that tracks both active and delisted funds
  • complete historical information on over 64,000 open-end funds, more than 31,000 of which were delisted. Included are: Equity funds, Taxable and municipal bond funds, International funds, Money market funds, Variable annuity underlying funds, ETFs and ETNs
  • data begin at varying times between 1962 and 2008 depending on availability

Access requires prior registration on the page https://wrds-www.wharton.upenn.edu/register/luissu/ and is subject to approval by library staff (according to support hours).

Available functionalities vary depending on the type of account requested.