Italian Research Guide

All Items by Source

Audio Files
Biographical Information
Books: other Catalogs
Citation and Style Guides
Dictionaries
Dissertations

eBooks
Encyclopedias
Government Information
International Geographic Resources
Journals/Magazines
Maps

Newspapers--International
Primary Sources
Radio Stations
Statistics/Data
TV Stations
Web Sites

Journals/Magazines

Proquest Arts: Journals & Dissertations Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
Includes these databases: American Periodicals; British Periodicals; CBCA Complete: The Arts; Ethnic NewsWatch; Index Islamicus; International Index to Music Periodicals; MLA International Bibliography; ProQuest Career and Technical Education: The Arts; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: The Arts; ProQuest Research Library: The Arts

California Italian Studies Journal Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
New peer reviewed eJournal.

CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
A selection of full-text books, conference reports, and working papers on international affairs.

EconLit with Full Text Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
Index for over 600 journals (400+ full-text), books, documents, and working papers in the field of economics. 1969 - present. Go shortcut = go/econlit.
Note: Note: Summon searches Econlit citations, but it does not search the full-text. To search within full-text journals, select All Text from Econlit's search box Select a Field menu.

Emeroteca Digitale on-line Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Provides access to images of over 120 Italian historical, including scholarly, periodicals and regional newspapers from the 19th Century and 20th Century. Some of the periodicals are fully searchable, but others, such as the newspapers, may only be searched by issue and date

ERIC Database Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is the world's largest source of education information, containing more than 1 million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles.

Historical Abstracts Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
Major index to over 2,000 international journals, book reviews, and dissertations on the history of the world, except United States and Canada. Covers topics from 1450 (i.e. the Renaissance) to the present. Indexes publications published from 1955 to current.

JSTOR Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
Full-text archive of over 1000 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. For off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. Shortcuts: go/jstor (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/jstor (off campus). All Middlebury alumni can access our JSTOR archived journals, dating up to five years ago. To access JSTOR for Middlebury alumni visit http://go.middlebury.edu/jstoralum.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
Academic Universe provides access to the full text of national and international newspapers, magazines, wire services, and more. It also includes business, financial, and legal information, including laws, regulations, cases, and EU law. The non-English language news link includes news in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Go shortcut = go/lexis (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/lexis (off campus).

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA ProQuest) Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only
Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. The documents indexed include journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers, 1960-present. Now on the ProQuest platform.

MLA International Bibliography (ProQuest) Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only
The major modern language index for literary criticism, linguistics, film and folklore. 1926-current. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. (Now on the ProQuest platform.)

PAIS International (ProQuest) Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only
Indexes journals, books, and documents covering global public policy and social issues in all disciplines. 1972 - current. For 1915 -1976, switch to PAIS Archive (click on Specific Database link to choose PAIS Archive). Go shortcut = go/pais

Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
Searchable archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences from 1665 - 2000. PAO is searchable with the British Periodicals I & ll collection. Also see Periodicals Index Online for indexing to additional journals titles.

Project Muse Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
Offers full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics from the 1990s to present. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. Shortcuts: go/muse (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/muse (off-campus).

Books: other Catalogs

European Library Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Online portal to 48 national libraries in Europe.

WorldCat Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only
Use this union catalog of over 40 million books, documents, reports, and media from libraries worldwide to identify books to request via InterLibrary Loan. If we don't own the book and you want to borrow it from another library, click on the ILL icon from the record. (OCLC)

International Geographic Resources

Columbia Gazetteer of the World Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
A database of names, descriptions, and characteristics of over 165,000 places in the world.

Library of Congress Country Studies Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.

Web Sites

Banche Dati di Periodici Disponibili Online Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Repertorio di fonti e risorse ad accesso libero tratto dal sito della Biblioteca di Filosofia e Storia dell’Università di Pisa

Europeana Unrestricted Resource
Multi-lingual online collection of digitized items from European museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections.

Danteworlds Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
An intergrated journey into the Commedia by the University of Atexa at Austin.

WESSWEB Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Web pages selected and maintained by the Western European Studies Section of ACRL.

Yamada Language Guides Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Web Portal for numerous language related sites

Government Information

Governments on the WWW Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Comprehensive database of governmental institutions on the World Wide Web: parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, city councils, public broadcasting corporations, central banks, multi-governmental institutions etc. Includes also political parties. Online since June 1995. Contains more than 17000 entries from more than 220 countries and territories as of June 2002.

Audio Files

Project Gutenberg - audiobooks Unrestricted Resource
Computer read audiobooks in many languages.

Music Online Listening Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only
Music Online is the broadest and most comprehensive online music resource that cross-searches all of your library's Alexander Street Press music databases. (Alexander Street Press streaming music databases.)

Biographical Information

Literature Resource Center Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
The Gale Literature Resource Center provides basic information about an author or a playwright as well as literary criticism from journals. When you do a search on the author's name, the first tab of results will be a link to a biographical profile of his/her life and works, while the second tab will give links to literary criticism and other articles. Other tabs will lead to additional resources.

Citation and Style Guides

RefWorks On-campus use only
RefWorks will automatically generate bibliographies and format your research papers in any of hundreds of styles including MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian. For more information, see the Middlebury-specific RefWorks Guide located at http://go.middlebury.edu/refworks?midd.

Dictionaries

Larousse dictionaries Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Includes a number of free dictionaries

ARTFL Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
Includes the Main ARTFL Database, French Women Writers, Provençal poetry, Journal de Trévoux, full-text dictionary searching and the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) Database.

Includes Webster's and Roget's Thesaurus, and well as the French dictionaries and multilingual bibles.

MIDCAT List - Italian Dictionaries Unrestricted Resource
Active catalog search
Note: Print resources

Oxford Reference Online Premium Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
General reference resources, including encyclopedias, bilingual dictionaries, chronologies, and maps and illustrations.

Tesoro della lingua italiana delle origini (TLIO) Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Online Italian Dictionary.

WordReference.com Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Language dictionaries

Your Dictionary Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Portal site for online language dictionaries and grammars.

Dissertations

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full text Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only
Search for millions of full text dissertations and theses from around the world from 1861 to present. Contains full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997. To obtain a copy of a dissertation or thesis unavailable as full text, use Inter Library Loan or request a Library purchase.

Encyclopedias

Treccani.it Unrestricted Resource
L'enciclopedia italiana. Includes general encyclopedia, biographical dictionary and an italian dictionary.

MIDCAT List - Encyclopedias, Italian Unrestricted Resource
Active catalog search
Note: Active catalog search

Maps

Italy Maps Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Digital maps of Italy from the Perry-Castañeda Library.

Newspapers--International

EUfeeds Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
News feeds from 300 European newspapers, organized by country

Foreign Language News and Magazines Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Links to electronic newspapers, journals, and magazines from around the world. Compiled by MIT Libraries.

Italian Media Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
A portal site selected and maintained by the deptartment of Romance Languages Harvard University.

Kidon Media Link Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Links to 18,776 newspapers and other news sources from almost every country and territory in the world.

L'Unità Unrestricted Resource Some full text available

L'Unità (nazionale, Torino and meridionale editions) is browseable in PDF back to 1924 and offers full-text searching back to 1996.

Library PressDisplay Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
45-day archive of full-color, full-page, scanned images of over 700 newspapers from 76 countries in 38 languages.

Newspapers24 Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
12,000 newspapers, 24 hours news

Primary Sources

CRL: Center for Research Libraries Catalog Unrestricted Resource
Online catalog of the holdings of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), which includes over 5 million items including U.S. and international newspapers; foreign journals and dissertations; government documents, and a wide range of other primary source material.

Note: Middlebury's membership in CRL allows us unlimited borrowing of CRL material via Interlibrary Loan (put a note in your request if the item is available from CRL).

Antologia (frammentaria) della Lettura Italiana Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Portal to full text works in Italian.

Decameron Web (Brown University) Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
A growing hypermedia archive of materials dedicated to Boccaccio's masterpiece.

Italian Web Resources Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Full text portal from the University of Virginia

Italian Women Writers Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
ortal site to digital resources on Italian Women Writers (University of Chicago)

Radio Stations

Radio-Locator Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Find radio stations by country

Statistics/Data

CIA - The World Factbook Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Produced by the CIA, country information including basic statistics.

TV Stations

International TV Unrestricted Resource
Portal site to TV stations from around the world

eBooks

EBL eBook Library Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
Tens of thousands of full-text ebooks primarily from academic publishers. Browse the collection (go/ebl) or read a step-by-step guide on reading and downloading ebooks. Use the advanced search option to browse books in languages other than English.