Electronic resources A-Z List

Full text access to the 9 journals published by American Economic Association (AEA):

• AEA Papers and Proceedings
• American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
• American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
• American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
• American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
• American Economic Review
• American Economic Review: Insights
• Journal of Economic Literature
• Journal of Economic Perspectives

Forthcoming Articles are available for AEA members only and are not in included in the subscription.

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.

Accessibility Policy

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.

The Freedom Collection by Elsevier ScienceDirect contains the complete text of about 2,500 journals published by the Elsevier since 1995.

The social sciences journals present in the database are over 600. The Library also subscribes to 4 disciplinary collections - Business, Management and Accounting , Decision Sciences, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Social Science - with the full text starting from the 1st issue and up to 1994.

Collection of over 300 publications published by Emerald Group Publishing.

Access is guaranteed, where available, since 1986.

Online information service in the economic and financial fields created by Factiva, a company of the Dow Jones & Reuters group.

The platform provides through a single interface more than 25,000 information sources from 159 countries and in 22 languages. Major newspapers available include: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, Financial Times, Les Echos, South China Morning Post, Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald, Straits Times , Yomiuri Shimbun, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The Irish Times.

Among the sources in Italian there are ANSA, Corriere della Sera, La Stampa, La Repubblica, Italia Oggi and Il Sole 24 Ore (from 2001 to 2007).

Note: the massive extraction of the contents (text mining) is not allowed by the subscribed license.

The Library provides access to the journals published by Giappichelli in the field of Law and Economics. Each journals has its own website:

• Assicurazioni: rivista di diritto, economia e finanza delle assicurazioni private
• Diritto ed economia dell'impresa
• Giurisprudenza arbitrale
• Il diritto dell'Unione europea
• Il diritto fallimentare e delle società commerciali: rivista di dottrina e giurisprudenza
• The Italian review of international and comparative law
• Il lavoro nelle pubbliche amministrazioni
• Il nuovo diritto delle società: NDS
• Massimario di giurisprudenza del lavoro
• Processo penale e giustizia
• Rivista AIAF
• Rivista di corporate governance
• Rivista di diritto societario: RDS
• Rivista di diritto sportivo
• Rivista trimestrale di diritto tributario
• Tax news: supplemento online alla Rivista trimestrale di diritto tributario
• Variazioni su temi di diritto del lavoro

Giappichelli also publishes open access journals on different topics: AI Law: International review of artificial intelligence law, Filosofia e questioni pubbliche/Philosophy and public issues, Jus civile, Law Art, Rivista della regolamentazioni dei mercati, Rivista orizzonti del diritto commerciale. Access is free upon registration.

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 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

Access to all the academic journals and to the Primary sources collections in JSTOR. Both Multi-discipline archive collections and Discipline-specific archive collections are included.

Coverage is for all the journals from the first published issue, but there is a 3-6 years embargo (Moving Wall).

An interactive research tool has been activated in JSTOR. This tool employs AI and other technologies to to deepen and expand  research with JSTOR’s trusted corpus. To use the tool an individual free registration is needed.

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.

Accessibility Policy (IT)

The platform offers an information, training and in-depth analysis service, updated in real time, on current Italian legislation and regulatory changes.

Access to the Daily Newspaper and the archive of Il Sole 24 ore (complete historical archive in pdf of the issues published since 1920), professional journals (including the Law Guide, Accounting and Budget Guide and Work Guide ) and Biblioteca24 (archive of the 24 ORE Group guides) through the “My products” box (scrolling through the homepage on the right).

The contents of the platform are grouped into macro-areas distinct by subject, in which documentary archives, comments, expert analysis, and jurisprudence.

See the guide How to access My Desk 24 (Il Sole 24 Ore).

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 databse contains full text and citations from over 75 titles of journals, newspapers and newswires about the US metropolitan and rural areas.

Online further materials about how to use the EBSCO platforms.

Rivisteweb is the online archive of the journals published by Il Mulino (currently over 50 titles are available in electronic version).

Coverage starts from 1997 for publications in the fields of History, Philosophy, Linguistics and Literary criticism, Music, Psychology, Political sciences, Economics, and Law.

Articles are in pdf and reproduce the original printed version. 

The database provides access to over 1.900 full text journals published by Springer, included the ones with Palgrave Macmillan imprint.

It includes contents in several disciplinary fields within Architecture, Arts and Design, Behavioral Sciences, Economics and Management, Informatics, Engineering, Human Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics.

The Library subscribes the access also to the full text of around 900 journals published from the first issue until 1996:

• SpringerLink Historical Archives Engineering;
• SpringerLink Historical Archives Mathematics;
• SpringerLink Historical Archives Medicine;
• SpringerLink Historical Archives Behavioral Sciences;
• SpringerLink Historical Archives Computer Sciences;
• SpringerLink Historical Archives Physics and Astronomy;
• SpringerLink Historical Archives Business and Economics;
• SpringerLink Historical Archives Biomedical and Life Sciences;
• SpringerLink Historical Archives Chemistry and Materials Science;
• SpringerLink Historical Archives Earth and Environmental Sciences;
• SpringerLink Historical Archives Humanities, Social Science, and Law.

The platform provides access to the e-journals published by Taylor & Francis within the Social Sciences and Humanities collection which contains also these sub-disciplines: Economics, Finance,Business & Industry, Law, Communication Studies, Humanities, Politics & International Relations, Health and Social Care, Social Sciences, Tourism,Hospitality and Events, Urban Studies.

The Diplomat is an international current-affairs magazine focusing on the Asia-Pacific region. Since its inception in 2002, it provides analysis and commentary on events occurring both in Asia and globally. 

The magazine specializes in several key areas, including:

• Geo-political trends throughout the Asia-Pacific
• Defense and intelligence
• Environment, human security, and development
• Arts, social trends, and popular culture

Online platform of The New York Times. The Library's subscription provides access to: 

• Today's Paper: digital version of the printed edition (last 7 days).
• TimesMachine: researchable archive of the newspaper in its original graphic version from the 1st number published on September 18th, 1851 until December 31st, 2002 (selection for the years 1923-1980).
• Online article archive: complete researchable archive from 1851 to today.
• the online contents video, T magazine, Daily 360, Podcasts, guides, Smarter living, NYT Cooking.

The subscription also gives access to the educational platforms inEducation (resources created for students and faculties in several disciplinary areas) and The Learning Network.

For mobile and app use, after logging in for the first time on the website from desktop with authentication via OpenAthens, enter the Luiss email in 'Log in' by setting a specific password by clicking on 'Forgot Password'.

Full access to the WSJ platform with the following benefits:

• Real time information about 30,000 companies, 31 sectors and 3,000 fundamental topics;
• In-deep reports about the most relevant news and analysis to compare new trends with the most recent business strategies;
• Real time news and data with tools and interactive graphs by accessing the "Market Data";
• Over 7 years archive of the newspaper;
• Saving and sharing the preferred articles;
• Reading, downloading or printing the PDF version of the e-Paper (US Edition)
• Go mobile: App WSJ for Android and Apple at the page https://now.wsj.com/mobile/ (login with Luiss email and the password created during the first access on the website)

Full text access to 12 journals published by University of Chicago Press: 

• American Journal of Sociology,
• Comparative Education Review,
• Economic Development and Cultural Change,
• Innovation Policy and the Economy,
• Journal of Labor Economics,
• The Journal of Law and Economics,
• The Journal of Legal Studies,
• The Journal of Modern History,
• Journal of Political Economy,
• NBER Macroeconomics Annual,
• Philosophy of Science,
• Signs.

The database collects the full text journals published by Wiley and those published by Blackwell. The titles are over 1,300 covering several disciplinary areas: Education, Engineering, Law, Mathematics and Statistics, Psychology, Social sciences. 

The Library subscribes also various collections with the full text of over 150 journals from the first issue until 1996:

• Business and Management
• Economics
• Finance and Accounting
• Law
• Philosophy
• Politics
• Sociology
• Social Policy
• Social Welfare and Anthropology

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.