Subject Guides
Italian Language & Literature
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Subject Specific Databases
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Gale Literature Resource Center (http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ucdavis?db=LitRC) VPN
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Full-text biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combines core literary resources such as Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography
- Access: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ucdavis?db=LitRC (http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ucdavis?db=LitRC) VPN
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Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (http://www.itergateway.org) VPN
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Iter, meaning 'a journey' or 'a path' in Latin, is a non-profit research project with partners in Toronto, Canada (the headquarters), New York City, and Tempe, Arizona. The goal of Iter is to increase access to all published materials pertaining to the Renaissance (1300-1700) and, eventually, to the Middle Ages (400-1500), through the creation of online bibliographic databases.
- Access: http://www.itergateway.org (http://www.itergateway.org) VPN
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MLA International Bibliography [via CSA Illumina] (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&db=mla-set-c&adv=1) VPN
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The Modern Language Association International Bibliography (MLAIB) covers international scholarly materials on all languages, literatures, linguistics, and folklore from around the world. It includes citations to items from journals, series, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. MLAIB does not index book reviews.
- Coverage: 1926-present
- Access: http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&db=mla-set-c&adv=1 (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&db=mla-set-c&adv=1) VPN
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General Databases
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General Databases in the Humanities and Social Sciences (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/subjects/?heading=35)
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This is a list of the best general databases in the Humanities and Social Sciences. It includes abstracting and indexing services, FullText Databases and Electronic Journal Libraries which are of interest to the variety of fields in the the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
- Access: http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/subjects/?heading=35 (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/subjects/?heading=35)
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FRANCIS [via FirstSearch/OCLC] (http://uclibs.org/PID/9572) VPN
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Over 862,000 records covering a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities, sciences, and economics
- Coverage: 1984-present
- Access: http://uclibs.org/PID/9572 (http://uclibs.org/PID/9572) VPN
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Index Translationum (http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=7810&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html)
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This is an index of translated books published in approximately 100 countries. Published by UNESCO, it contains "more than 1.600,000 entries in all disciplines : literature, social and human sciences, natural and exact sciences, art, history and so forth." For earlier years, see the hard copy volumes in the Humanities and Social Sciences Reference Collection.
- Coverage: 1979-current
- Access: http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=7810&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=7810&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html)
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ArchiveGrid [via OCLC] (http://archivegrid.org) VPN
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ArchiveGrid is a database designed specifically for locating archival collections held in libraries, museums and other institutions. It combines all the archival records in WorldCat with others pulled from various archives Web sites. Included are all of the item records added to the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) after 1987, as well as many records from earlier years. (NUCMC includes records added before 1987, especially of smaller archives, that are not found in ArchiveGrid.)
- Access: http://archivegrid.org (http://archivegrid.org) VPN
Full-text Resources
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Europeana: Europe's Digital Library (http://www.europeana.eu)
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Direct access to some 2 million digital objects (and counting): film,photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books,newspapers and archival papers.
Selected from already digitised resources available in Europes museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections.
[Note: there is heavy demand for this site so access is sometimes limited to prevent overload.]
- Access: http://www.europeana.eu (http://www.europeana.eu)
Other Resources
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UC Davis Italian Department (http://italian.ucdavis.edu/FrontPage)
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- Access: http://italian.ucdavis.edu/FrontPage (http://italian.ucdavis.edu/FrontPage)
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Italian American Culture and History (http://www.osia.org/public/culture/language_studies.asp)
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Gateway to Internet links about Italian American language and culture.
- Access: http://www.osia.org/public/culture/language_studies.asp (http://www.osia.org/public/culture/language_studies.asp)
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Italian Language Schools (http://www.scuolaleonardo.com/index.html)
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Information and Internet links to studying Italian.
- Access: http://www.scuolaleonardo.com/index.html (http://www.scuolaleonardo.com/index.html)
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University Italian Departments (http://www.osia.org/public/students/university_links.asp)
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Selected university Italian language departments in the U.S.
- Access: http://www.osia.org/public/students/university_links.asp (http://www.osia.org/public/students/university_links.asp)
