Electronic resources A-Z List

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.

Trial ends on June 30, 2024.

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.

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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.