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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 database contains the publications of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): Journals, Transactions, Magazines, Newsletters, Proceedings.

In the Digital Library are also available bibliographic records, abstracts, reviews and full texts by other publishers in the disciplines of Information Technology, Applied Information Technology and Information Technology.

The resource includes the full-text archive of the previous years, starting with the first published issue. It includes access to the publications from the Special Interest Group (SIGs) and to the Guide to Computing Literature, the largest bibliographic database dedicated to these subjects.

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).

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 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 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 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 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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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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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.

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 collects the full text of more than 3,000 Discussion Papers published by the Center for Economic Research since 1998.

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 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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The Library subscribes the following 10 titles published by De Gruyter: 

• The BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 
• The BE Journal of Macroeconomics 
• The BE Journal of Theoretical Economics 
• The Economists’ Voice
• Peace Economics
• Peace Science and Public Policy 
• Review of Law & Economics
• Historische Zeitschrift
• Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte
• Zeitschrift für Unternehmens- und Gesellschaftsrecht
• Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte

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.

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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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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Handbooks published by Elsevier and available in full text.

1. Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science
2. Handbook of Statistics
3. Handbook of Numerical Analysis
4. Handbook of Sports and Lottery Markets
5. Handbooks in Economic Series with several titles

Access is provided by the Science Direct platform also for searching within the Elsevier journals subscribed by the Library.

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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 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.

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.

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 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 Library provides access to a selection of books published by Giuffrè (later Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre) which had been purchased since 2007.

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)

Online version of the Encyclopedia of Law published by Giuffré which provides over 4,200 entries relating to different legal fields. The materials are the same of the printed work plus the contents of the Annals starting from 2008.

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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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.

Essential Science Indicators provides tools to analyze and compare Research performance, identify significant trends, rank the best performers, and evaluate potential employees and collaborators.

The numerical indicators of ESI are based on 11,727 journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index) for a period of 10 years.

Citation counts for these articles are from journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index). ESI indicators are calculated on 11 years of data. The database is updated six times a year.

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

Online version of the encyclopedia published in 2011 by SAGE and edited by Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser and Leonardo Morlino.

The work treats the main topics in political science, including comparative politics, epistemology, economic politics, political sociology and international relations.

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".

JCR provides information and tools to determine the scientific impact of periodicals in the fields of science and social science.

The data is derived from over 11,000 journals chosen as the most important and cited worldwide in the two categories.

The following statistical tools are available:

• the Impact Factor, which allows to determine the importance of a journal compared with others in the same scientific sector;
• the Immediacy Index, which measures how quickly a journal article is cited on average and how often journal articles are cited in the same year;
• the Cited Half Life, which measures the validity of the cited articles over time.

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.

The digital platform is published by Kluwer Law International.

It contains e-books in law also discoverable by fields or browsing from the homepage.

Main topics: Antitrust, Competition Law, Arbitration, Litigation & Mediation, Banking, Commercial Law, Comparative Law, Corporate Law, Energy & Environmental Law, European Union Law, Intellectual Property, International Law, Labor & Employment Law, Tax Law, Trade Law and Transportation Law.

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.

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.

The database, which includes Mathematical Reviews (MR) and Current Mathematical Publications (CMP), covers the international literature relating to mathematics since 1864: there are over 2 million records. Over 700,000 report the direct link to the full text of the document.

The records, including reviews, concern articles taken from approximately 1,800 international mathematical journals, as well as 7,500 monographs, proceedings, doctoral theses and annual technical reports. Papers are indexed through the international classification scheme for Mathematical Subject Classification, which contains over 5,000 entries.

Electronic and continuously updated version of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law published in print in subsequent editions between 1991 and 2001 and, starting from 2004, also online.

Since September 2019, the platform also allows access to the Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law, a bibliographic source specialized in international procedural law.

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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Complete collection of the Working Papers published by the National Bureau of Economic Research starting from the 1st issue of 1973. Most of the Working Papers are accompanied by abstracts. The full text of the NBER Digest starting from April 2001 and the table of contents of the monographs published by the NBER in collaboration with other publishing houses starting from 1997 and most of the contents of the forthcoming works are also available.

Second edition (2008) of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics is considered a fundamental reference work by economists as it reflects the current state of the economy. The online edition contains 1,977 entries, of which over 1,000 were written for the 2nd edition. Access is also provided to over 1,900 entries from the original 1987 edition.

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 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).

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

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 Law. The Library subscribes the EU Law 2024 collection with the following full text titles:

• EU Law: Text, Cases, & Materials, 8th edition (2024), Craig & De Búrca
• Competition Law, 11th edition (2024), Whish & Bailey
• European Union Law, 4th edition (2023), Barnard & Peers (eds)
• Steiner & Woods EU Law, 15th edition (2023), Costa & Peers
• EU Law: Directions, 8th edition (2023), Foster
• Harris, O'Boyle & Warbrick: Law of the European Convention on Human Rights, 5th edition (2023), Harris et al
• EU Competition Law: Text, Cases, & Materials, 8th edition (2023), Jones, Sufrin & Dunne
• Essential Cases: EU Law, 8th edition (2023), O'Meara
• An Introduction to European Law, 4th edition (2023), Schütze
• The Substantive Law of the EU, 7th edition (2022), Barnard
• Complete EU Law, 5th edition (2022), Berry, Homewood & Bogusz
• Foster On EU Law, 8th edition (2021), Foster
• European Union Law, 11th edition (2021), Horspool, Humphreys & Wells-Greco
• European Constitutional Law, 3rd edition (2021), Schütze
• European Union Law, 3rd edition (2021), Schütze
• EU Law in the UK, 1st edition (2020), de Mars
• Jacobs, White & Ovey: European Convention on Human Rights, 8th edition (2020), Rainey, Wicks & Ovey
• Competition Law of the EU & UK, 8th edition (2019), Marco Colino
• Concentrate EU Law, 8th edition (2022), Homewood
• Concentrate Q&A EU Law, 3rd edition (2020), Foster
• Legal Ethics, 3rd edition (2023), Herring

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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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The digital encyclopedia, published by Oxford University Press, is peer-reviewed and continuously updated by leading scholars and researchers worldwide. It currently includes over 1,500 entries.

The work examines all major areas of political science, including international political economy, political philosophy, groups and identities, political change and governance, and qualitative and quantitative methodology.

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Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law (OSAIL) provides full text access to over 180 editions of reference works published by Oxford University Press such as Oppenheim, and Oxford Commentaries on International Law.

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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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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.

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 electronic collection provides access to over 800 ejournals published by SAGE in the fields of Humanities.

Further indications about covered topics at http://online.sagepub.com/browse/by/discipline.

The database provides citations and abstracts from scientific literature and other several online sources in the fields of Humanities and Social sciences.

Cited titles are journal articles, proceedings, books, webpages, and patents. 

Online access to the electronic version of the yearbook published by Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) from 2010 on.

SIPRI Yearbook is dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control, and disarmament.

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.

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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Electronic collection with the full text books published by Springer Nature in the series Lecture Notes in Mathematics.

The access for all titles starts from the first number (1964) to today.

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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.

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

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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.

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)

Serials directory which covers any topic and worldwide titles. It allows the browsing by subject. 

The bibliographic records provide information about the publication and the publisher, the history of the title, indication about the contents and availability both in printed and electronic versions with the link to the journal official website when available. 

Electronic version of the historical directory published since 1932. 

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.

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 citations done by scientific authors to create links and relations between titles with similar topics. By doing so, the resource produces indexes of international scientific periodicals and academic books. It contains the following archives:

• Science Citation index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED): from 1985
• Social Science Citation Index (SSCI): from 1985
• Art and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI): from 1985
• Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH): from 1990
• Book Citation Index– Social Sciences & Humanities (BKCI-SSH): from 2005
• Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI); from 2015

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.

Full text of over 500 e-books published by Wiley within the disciplinary collection titled Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting with copyright years from 2017 to 2024 for the following sub-disciplines:

• Accounting
• Business & Management
• Economics
• Finance and Investments

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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.