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Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences — Arts & Humanities
Italian Language & Literature

Librarian Subject Specialist

Daniel Goldstein
dgoldstein@ucdavis.edu — (530) 752‑2040 — Humanities, Social Sciences, and Government Information Services (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/)

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Subject Specific Databases

Gale Literature Resource Center (http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ucdavis?db=LitRC) [Restricted] Proxy Server
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
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (http://www.itergateway.org) [Restricted] VPN
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.
MLA International Bibliography [via Proquest] (http://search.proquest.com/mlaib/advanced) [Restricted] VPN
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
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General Databases

Academic Search Complete [via EBSCO] (http://uclibs.org/PID/126936) [Restricted] VPN
The multi-disciplinary database Academic Search Complete (ASC) provides full-text access to more than 5,500 periodicals, including over 4,600 peer-reviewed journals, and indexing and abstracts for an additional 9,500 journals and 10,000 publications, including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. This scholarly collection offers coverage of information in many areas of academic study including, but not limited to: animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology and many other fields. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
Coverage: 1887-present
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FRANCIS [via FirstSearch/OCLC] (http://uclibs.org/PID/9572) [Restricted] VPN
Over 862,000 records covering a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities, sciences, and economics
Coverage: 1984-present
Index Translationum (http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=7810&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html)
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
ArchiveGrid [via OCLC] (http://archivegrid.org) [Restricted] VPN
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 archivesÂ’ 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.)

Full-Text Resources

Europeana: Europe's Digital Library (http://www.europeana.eu)

Direct access to several million digital objects: film,photos, paintings, sound recordings, maps, manuscripts, books,newspapers and archival papers.

Selected from already digitized resources available in Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. French and German cultural institutions are particularly well-represented.

Historic Italian and other European Journals and newspapers online (http://filosofiastoria.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/emeroteche-on-line.pdf)PDF
Author: Biblioteca di Filosofia e Storia dell’Università di Pisa
BANCHE DATI DI PERIODICI DISPONIBILI ON LINE--This is an Italian language list of and links to (mostly)European journal and newspaper collections digitized by libraries and other institutions. It is especially useful for Italian publications.

Other Resources

UC Davis Italian Department (http://italian.ucdavis.edu/FrontPage)
Italian American Culture and History (http://www.osia.org/public/culture/language_studies.asp)
Gateway to Internet links about Italian American language and culture.
Italian Language Schools (http://www.scuolaleonardo.com/index.html)
Information and Internet links to studying Italian.
University Italian Departments (http://www.osia.org/public/students/university_links.asp)
Selected university Italian language departments in the U.S.