Electronic resources A-Z List

The database contains the documentation assets in tax, corporate and business, and competition matters provided by Assonime. Within the restricted area of ​​the portal it is possible to access the following sections:

• Circulars (since 1986): studies on a reasoned selection of legislative measures and administrative and jurisprudential guidelines;
• Notes and Studies and Insights (since 1997): the papers produced by Assonime in collaboration also with other Institutions, and the notes, which draw general guidelines starting from the solution to specific problems of tax, corporate and business law and competition;
• The Case and e-news that investigate cases and Company law issues of particular interest that have emerged from practice or legislative changes;
• Tax Law (since 2005): containing the rulings on tax matters of the Court of Justice, the Constitutional Court and the Court of Cassation.

The database is one of the richest academic sources with the full text of nearly 300,000 book chapters and journal articles covering, among others, the humanities and international law.

The Library subscribes access to the full electronic text of 12 periodicals published by Brill: 

• European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
• European Journal of Migration and Law
• International Community Law Review
• International Criminal Law Review
• International Journal of Parliamentary Studies
• International Organizations Law Review
• Nordic Journal of International Law
• The Hague Journal of Diplomacy
• The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law
• The Italian Yearbook of International Law Online
• The Journal of World Investment & Trade
• The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals

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.

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.

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.

Collection of over 300 publications published by Emerald Group Publishing.

Access is guaranteed, where available, since 1986.

The platform provides support for academic research in the field of EU law and policy.

The repository contains about 12,000 content related to Community law, including the Weekend Editions, an ever-increasing number of analyzes, podcasts and news. The thematic areas covered are many, including: Institutional Law, Data Tech & IP, Covid-19, Human Rights, Emplyment & Immigration.

For each section the accessible documents are: analysis, editorial comments, insights, news and op-eds. The contributions show a mirror hyperlink to the official source of the legislation or jurisprudence cited.

The database includes several sections:

• Riviste de Il Foro Italiano: browsable issues since 2013.
• Riviste La Tribuna: available in PDF format from 2010 onward, or from the first issue for more recent publications..
• Biblioteca Volumi: full text of Codici, Codici commentati, Codici Pocket, Formulari and preparation materials for Concorsi published by La Tribuna.
• Gli Speciali de Il Foro Italiano: full text of special monographic issues published from 2020 on.

From simple and advanced search you can access to various archives: Giurisprudenza (cases), Normativa (4 codes and complementary laws), Dottrina (articles and case notes published on La Tribuna and Il Foro Italiano journals), Bibliografia (includes bibliographic references published in Repertorio de Il Foro Italiano), Formulari, Prassi, Commentario.

Online historical archive of 45 journals published by Giuffrè (later Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre).

Over 5,000 issues since 1975 that faithfully reproduce the structure and graphics of the printed version. The main titles contained are:

• AIDA: Annali italiani del diritto d'autore, della cultura e dello spettacolo (dal 2001)
• Banca Borsa e Titoli di Credito (dal 1975)
• Cassazione Penale (dal 1975)
• Concorrenza e Mercato (dal 2001)
• Diritto del Commercio Internazionale (dal 1987)
• Diritto dell'Informazione e dell'Informatica (dal 1985)
• Diritto di Famiglia e delle Persone (dal 1975)
• Giurisprudenza Commerciale (dal 1975)
• Responsabilità Civile e Previdenza (dal 1975)
• Rivista dei Dottori Commercialisti (dal 1975)
• Rivista del Notariato (dal 1975)
• Rivista dell'arbitrato (dal 1991)
• Rivista delle Società (dal 1975)
• Rivista di Diritto Industriale (dal 1975)
• Rivista di Diritto Internazionale (dal 1975)
• Rivista Italiana di Diritto del Lavoro (dal 1975)
• Rivista Italiana di Diritto e Procedura Penale (dal 1975)
• Rivista Italiana di Medicina Legale (dal 1979)
• Rivista trimestrale di diritto pubblico (dal 1975)

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 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.

Accessibility Policy

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.

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".

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 the full text of 21 journals pblished by Kluwer Law International, in particular: Business Law Review, Common Market Law Review, EC Tax Review, European Review of Private Law e Legal Issue of Economic Integration.

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.

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).

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.).

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.

Access to over 140 electronic journals published by Oxford related to: Arts and Humanities, Law, Medicine and Health, Science and Mathematics and Social Sciences.

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.

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.

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.

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

Platform by the Wolters Kluwer Italia publishing group which provides access to the Italian journals published by its IPSOA, CEDAM and UTET Giuridica.

The Library subscribes several titles. 

To login see the guide How to access Wolters Kluwer Italia databases.

Some of the available journals are:

• ADL Argomenti di Diritto del Lavoro (CEDAM)
• Amministrazione e finanza (IPSOA)
• Corriere tributario (IPSOA)
• PMI (IPSOA)
• Contratti (IPSOA)
• Corriere Giuridico (IPSOA)
• Diritto Fallimentare e delle Società Commerciali (CEDAM)
• Fallimento e le altre Procedure Concorsuali (IPSOA)
• Giurisprudenza Italiana (UTET Giuridica)
• Rivista di Diritto Civile (CEDAM)
• Le Società (IPSOA)