Electronic resources A-Z List

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).

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.

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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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.

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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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 contains several archives:

• Il Foro Italiano with materials published in the journal from 1987.
• Biblioteca riviste collects all the articles and case notes published in La Tribuna journals. The publications can be downloaded in pdf starting from 2010 or from the first issue of the publication for the most recent ones.
• Giurisprudenza includes the abstracts of the official cases published in the CED as well as in Il Repertorio del Foro Italiano since 1981.
• Bibliografia includes the bibliographic references published in Il Foro Italiano from 1981.
• Cassazione Civile includes the cases and the relative official abstracts from 1997, in addition to the official abstracts published in Il Massimario del Foro italiano from 1990.
• Cassazione Penale includes the decisions and the relative official abstracts from 2009, in addition to the official abstracts published in Il Massimario del Foro Italiano from the same year. It also contains a selection of decisions relating to previous years.
• Merito e extra contains, since 2006: a collection of measures of merit unpublished in the review "Il Foro Italiano" and the extrapolation of the relevant points relevant to the decision, classified according to the items and sub-items of the Repertory of "Il Foro Italiano".
• Dottrina contains a selection of handbooks published by Giappichelli.
• Legislazione (4 codes and complementary laws) contains the essential legislation for legals.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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).

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.

Accessibility Policy

RECMA is one of the leading independent research firms that evaluates and monitors the media agency industry. The available datasets and reports focus on the Italian market and feature an assessment of media agencies based on 19 key performance indicators (KPIs), including competitiveness in pitches, new business wins/losses/retention, awards, client growth, top management stability, digital service staffing, and top clients. These KPIs help identify each agency’s profile, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. Additionally, the dataset includes an annual ranking based on market share within the industry.

The Library provides access to: Advertiser Online Database Italy (Excel dataset: three years of spend data and media agency partnerships for the top advertisers) and Italy Domestic Report (PDF format: includes Qualitative Evaluation and Overall Activity Volume Report).

Statista.com provides statistics, reports, dossiers and studies, and previsional data on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,000 sources. 

Main characteristics and contents:

• large amount of topics among which Media, Social Networks, Telecommunications, Business, Digital markets, Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
• market research as well as research and analysis services for several industry sectors
• over 150 Country reports
• market sizes, forecasts and other indicators for the digital economy and key consumer markets
• customized Infographics, videos, presentations and publications
• the Consumer Insights module allows for analysis of consumer behavior and consumer interactions with brands. The data can be analyzed directly through the interactive online DIY-analysis tool and can be processed into customized tables and charts
• the Market Insights module analyzes over 1,000 business sectors, providing financial data, KPIs, and forecast data.

Data provider in support of academic excellence. It provides rankings, data, analysis and benchmarking that can help universities to analyze the international reality and their positioning.

THE publishes the World University Rankings, annual lists of universities worldwide with over 1,600 institutions in 99 countries in 2022. The ranking rates research-intensive universities in each of their main missions: teaching (the environment of learning); research (volume, income and reputation), international perspectives (personnel, students and research); citations (influence on research); sector income (knowledge transfer).

It also publishes the Europe Teaching Ranking, a survey of over 30,000 university students that, in addition to commitment, measures student achievement, the diversity of institutional environments and the resources universities have to teach effectively.

Lastly, it allows you to view the rankings results on the basis of a navigation by disciplines.

The Library's subscription provides access to the sections: News, Data (analysis and insights on Rankings), Opinion, Features (comments and editorials), Jobs (specific vacancies in the university environment), Book reviews, Magazine archive.

Since 2021 they have added the Campus section, dedicated to sharing resources, best practices, case studies about the reality of teaching and learning with particular attention to digital and distance learning.

More information at the page of the subscription details.

Edited by UN Statistics Division, UN COMTRADE provides detailed statistics on imports and exports of goods and services reported by the statistical authorities of nearly 200 countries/areas since 1962. It is considered to be the most complete database on commerce with ten billions of data.

Premium subscription includes bulk and delivery download from the platform and unlimited API. To generate the API key, once registered for the first time at https://comtradeplus.un.org/, follow instructions on UN Comtrade API Management.

User guide at the page: https://unstats.un.org/wiki/display/comtrade/UN+Comtrade.

Access through a personal registration with Luiss account (@studenti.luiss.it, @luiss.it, @luissbusinessschool.it). From the home page, click on "Login" top right and the on "Sign up now". To register an individual Premium account see the guide How to access UN Comtrade.

Large US global legal research portal with over 28,000 databases of jurisprudence, legislation, statutory audits, treaties relating to both the United States and the European Union and other countries around the world.

On Westlaw International 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 (to view the Restatements list you have to open first a session on the database by clicking on the link https://tinyurl.com/y6x5lmvw).

It also contains more than 1,000 scientific and newspaper periodicals of both legal and economic content drawn from the businesses of Thomson Reuters, including Sweet & Maxwell, Ellis Publications, Carswell and Westlaw.

Electronic version of the Yearbook published by the European Audiovisual Observatory which offers stats and financial data about Audiovisual industry and market of 36 European countries. In particular, the focus is on TV and its trends, film and home video. Datasets are available in Excel.

The Library provides access to the Yearbook of the following: 

• 2005
• 2006
• 2007
• 2008
• 2009
• 2010
• 2011
• 2012
• 2013
• 2014
• 2014-2019

Avialable in English, French, German. 

Access notes

2005-2014: use the Luiss account to access the resource;

2014-2019: require the credentials by sending e-mail to biblioteca@luiss.it.