Electronic resources A-Z List

BPR (Bibliography of the Italian Parliament and electoral studies) is a citation database with references of books and journal articles concerning:

• the Italian Parliament since the granting of the Albertine Statute in 1848, thus including the parliamentary experience of the Savoy state, up to today;
• the National Council and the Constituent Assembly;
• electoral studies (laws, procedures, behavior), with reference to political elections in the same historical period both at national and local level.

The BPR includes legal studies but also studies conducted from a political point of view, organizational science, political sociology, as well as historiographical literature on the subject. Articles in newspapers and weekly magazines, parliamentary acts, sentences, laws and regulations are excluded.

Using documents in the public domain or on the basis of agreements with private and public publishers, it presents a selection of full-text documents (indexes of monographic works, sentences, periodical articles, contributions in miscellaneous works), attached to the bibliographic reference.

Since 2002, the BPR has also reported documents that can be found on the main legal websites.

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 Economist, 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 FT.com online platform includes:

• updated contents of ft.com in real time
• 15 years of Financial Times archive (https://www.ft.com/todaysnewspaper/archive)
• the ePaper Access service, with the possibility of downloading the electronic facsimile PDF version of the 5 editions of the FT Newspaper (UK, Europe, US, Middle East, Asia: https://www.ft.com/todaysnewspaper).
• access to news relating to the 4 regional editions of FT (UK, US, Asia, Europe)
• comments from columnists readily available
• Markets data: database of commodities, bonds & rates, indices, and listed companies
• Special reports: archive of reports both in PDF and navigable
• In-Depth: constantly updated archive on hot topics and events

See the guide How to access Financial Times (Ft.com).

The subscription provides access to all the contents published on the web site https://www.repubblica.it/, included the Premium ones. Access is available exclusively from smartphones and tablets using your usual browser in mobile mode (e.g. Chrome or Safari).

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).

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, however, it contains numerous directories relating to companies, with reports (Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations, Hoovers' Company Profile Database, Thomson Directories, Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Daily Market, EIU Reports), as well as the full text of numerous magazines. It also gives access to Company Dossier, a specific section containing detailed reports and analyzes relating to companies around the world.

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 open access platform provides various materials for studies in the Italian telecom industry. The main available sectors on the resource are publishing, television, cinema, new media, radio, sport. Datasets are published with hypertexts, tables, graphs and statistics also downloadable in excel.

Project Syndicate is an international non-profit organization founded by an association of publishers and periodicals. The website provides contents translated into 15 languages made by a network of academics, activists, politicians, economists, Nobel prices, intellectuals and leaders of the business world.

The topics cover economic policy, world growth and sustainable development, human rights, the environment from a global geopolitical point of view, culture, innovation.

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.

Access through personal registration only with your Luiss account. Access also through the app: download the app and access it with the same credentials used for the nytimes.com.

Please note that the pass to access The New York Times expires after 364 days. To renew the password you need to login in the personal area and click on the page of the first registration; at this point the system will recognize you and send a confirmation e-mail for another 364 day renewal. 

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 Amazon, Android, Apple at the page https://now.wsj.com/mobile/

First access, on-campus or with Luiss Proxy configurated, through a personal registration with Luiss account. Access also through the iPhone and iPad app or Android app: download the app and login with the same credentials used for the site wsj.com. Please note that the configuration for the remote access is allowed only if the device is online through the Wi-Fi and not the 3G/4G connection.