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Libraries' Catalog - Catalog containing over two million entries for books, e-books, films, maps, journals, e-journals, web sites and more from five campus libraries, including the Gorgas Library and the Hoole Special Collections.
WorldCat - Catalog containing more than 1 billion titles for books, scores, films, maps, and more. Contributions are international.
LibWeb – Links to the Web pages of libraries throughout the world. Also available under Search on the Libraries’ Home Page.
Servizio Bibliotecario Nationale - Union catalog of Italian Libraries, including the Biblioteca Nazionale
Find Articles and Full Text Content in Databases
Note: Databases marked FT in the list below include at least some full-text material.
General:
Academic OneFile - contains a wide range of articles across disciplines. Though most articles are in English, subject areas include history, economics, literature, and popular culture. FT
Academic Search Premiere - contains a wide range of scholarly and popular articles. Full text coverage dates vary according to the publication, but most titles are available from 1965 to the present. FT
Academic Universe (Lexis-Nexis Academic) – includes searchable text Italian newspapers, most of them economic. Select “News” on the home page, then “Non-English Language News,” and a language. Click on “Source List” to see a list of publications and dates in the selected language. FT
American Humanities Index – indexes 700+ literary and scholarly journals, 1975-present.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index – comprehensive online version (1985-present) of the print work of the same name, available through ISI Web of Science.
Expanded Academic Complete ASAP - contains a wide range of scholarly and popular articles from 1980 to the present. FT
Ethnic Newswatch – newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. FT
Historical Abstracts - indexes hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. Articles cover world history excluding North America. Some full text. FT
Periodicals Index Online -contains citations to hundreds of Italian periodicals. Limited to 25 simultaneous users. Use is restricted to students, faculty, and staff of the University of Alabama.
Project Muse – a full-text collection of journals published mostly by university presses and learned societies. FT
Research Library Complete - offers indexing and full-text scholarly and popular articles on a broad ranges of topics from 1986 to the present. FT
Literature and Linguistics:
ARTFL (Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) – Though primarily a French resource, this database includes the Opera de Vocabulario Italiano (OVI) FT
Iter - Iter’s bibliography includes literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books, journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues). Also includes a directory of scholars, Iter Italicum, and online journals. FT
JSTOR - a full text collection of journals that includes languages and literatures, and area studies. Dates vary according to title. FT
LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts) – abstracts of articles, books, and dissertations in the field of linguistics.
Literature Resource Center – biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of 90,000+ authors from ancient times to the present. FT
MLA International Bibliography – The Modern Language Association’s index (1920s-present) of articles, monographs, working papers, proceedings, etc. in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
Web Resources
- Digital Dante - this site hosted at Columbia University focuses on Dante scholarship.
- European Government Documents - hosted at the University of Michigan, this site offers links to government documents of European countries.
- Intute – formerly Humbul Arts and Humanities, this British site is dedicated to discovering, evaluating, and cataloging online resources in the humanities.
- Language Resource Center at University of Alabama - Click on "student materials" to get access Italian studies tailored to UA student needs
- Liber Liber – A virtual library of Italian authors.
- Voices of the Shuttle – A Web site for humanities research, with links to many valuable sites. Sections include Literatures (Other Than English), Literary Theory, Cultural Studies, and Gender Studies. Available through the Libraries’ Database Page .
- WESS (Western European Studies Section, Association of College and Research Libraries)– A gateway to Internet resources relating to all aspects of Western European Studies. Available through the Libraries’ Database Page .
- Yamada Language Guides – Guide to language sources on the Web from the University of Oregon.
Select Newspapers and Periodicals
Note: to see comprehensive information on library holdings for a specific journal, do a "journal title" search in the UA Library Catalog. To search for electronic Italian language journals, browse the e-journal titles by subject (Languages and Literatures).
Italian Studies (DG401 .I85) - covers articles on Italian history, art history, language, literature, and film.
Logos (PQ4001 .L64) - Italian language journal that covers philosophy
La Rassegna della letteratura italiana (PQ4001 .R13) - book reviews in Italian
Revue des études italiennes (PQ4001 .R47) - book reviews in French on Italian studies
Select Print Resources
- The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture (DG451 .C35 2001)
- Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (Gorgas Reference CB361 .E52 1999)
Literature Guides:
- Dictionary of Italian Literature (Gorgas Reference PQ 4006 .D45 1996)
- The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature (Gorgas Reference PQ4006 .O84 2002)
- The Dante Encyclopedia (Gorgas Reference PQ4333 .D36 2000)
Biography:
- Dizionario biografico degli Italiani (complete through v. 57, Guilini/Gonzaga) (Gorgas Reference CT 1123 .D5)
Dictionaries:
- Grande dizionario della lingua italiana (21 v.) (Gorgas Reference PC 1625 .B3)
- 2006 parole nuove (Gorgas Reference PC1630 .A32 2005)
- yourDictionary.com – A collection of more than 280 English and foreign-language dictionaries.
Academic Departments and Associations
- University of Alabama Department of Modern Languages and Classics [http://bama.ua.edu/~mlc/]
- Modern Language Association (MLA) [http://www.mla.org/]
- American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) [http://www.acla.org/]
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