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 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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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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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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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.

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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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 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.

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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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.

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 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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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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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.

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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.

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Full text e-books published by Springer Nature within the following collections:

• Artificial Intelligence: books with copyright 2025.
• Business & Economics: books with copyright 2010-2015 and 2005.
• Business & Management: books with copyright 2016-2025.
• Computer Science: books with copyright 2022-2025 (included the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science).
• Earth and Environmental Science: books with copyright 2022-2025.
• Economics and Finance: books with copyright 2022-2025.
• Humanities, Social Sciences and Law: books with copyright 2012-2015.
• Law & Criminology: books with copyright 2016-2025.
• Mathematics & Statistics: books with copyright 2022-2025.
• Political Science and International Studies: books with copyright 2022-2025.
• Social Sciences: books with copyright 2022-2025.

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Selection of around 100 e-books published by Taylor & Francis within the Politics collection.

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Digital Library with the following dictionaries:

• Lo Zingarelli: Italian dictionary (Zanichelli, 2023)
• Il Ragazzini: English- Italian and Italian–English dictionary (Zanichelli, 2019)
• Il dizionario di cinese: Chinese-Italian and Italian-Chinese dictionary by Zhao Xiuying (Zanichelli, 2013)
• A dictionary of economics by John Black, Nigar Hashimzade, Gareth D. Myles (Oxford University Press, 2017)
• A dictionary of business and management edited by Jonathan Law (Oxford University Press, 2016)
• Oxford Dictionary of English (Oxford University Press, 2012)
• Il Boch : French-Italian and Italian-French dictionary (Zanichelli, 2020)
• Il Kovalev : IRusian-italian and ital'jansko russkij slovar' dictionary (Zanichelli, 2014)
• Il grande dizionario di spagnolo : Spanish-Italian and italiano español dictionary (Zanichelli, 2012)
• Il nuovo dizionario di tedesco : German-Italian and Italian-german dictionary (Zanichelli, 2019)
• Collins English Dictionary: complete and unabridged (Collins, 2018)