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EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite (Coverage : 1984- | Abstracts | Full-text | Updated: Daily.) Provides full-text for over 1,200 journals (some back to 1990) covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies and education. It also has abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly journals, and over 1,700 are peer-reviewed. The Wall Street journal, New York times, and the Christian Science Monitor are also indexed.

LexisNexis Academic Provides full text news and information on a regional, national, and international level. Especially useful for locating full-text newspaper articles and country profiles.

ProQuest Provides access to ABI/Inform Global (1457 business related titles), Periodical Abstracts Research II (1817 multidisciplinary titles), and Newspapers Abstracts (incl. 90-day NYTimes and Wall St. Journal; 32 titles). Full text and images are provided where available.

Foreign Language and Literature Databases

Arts & Humanities Search (Coverage:1980- Updated weekly.) Indexes more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals and selected articles from more than 5,800 social science and science journals. It indexes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews,and more.

Ethnic Newswatch (Full-text) Contains the complete articles from 100 ethnic newspapers and magazines published in the United States -- more than 95,000 articles, editorials, and reviews. Provides multicultural coverage of subjects of interest to African Americans, Hispanics, Latinos, Chicanos, Native Americans, Asian, Jewish, Arab and European Americans. Searchable in both Spanish and English.

Humanities Index (Coverage: 1984- updated: Monthly.) Contains citations for more than 300 humanities publications. Covers feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, fiction, reviews of plays and radio and television programs and more. It does not include letters to the editor, editorials, news, cartoons, and advertising.

Iter gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance A bibliography of approximately 230,000 articles and reviews drawn from over 475 medieval and Renaissance journal titles. Updated daily and with more than 60,000 new records added annually, will be of great use to scholars interested in Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism A full-text searchable database of articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical schools.

MLA International Bibliography (Coverage: 1963- updated: Quarterly.) Produced by the Modern Language Association, indexes critical materials on modern language, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to over 3000 journals and series published worldwide, as well as monographs, working papers, proceedings, and bibliographies.

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WORLD WIDE WEB RESOURCES (Find Web resources.)

BUBL LINK-Italian Language The International JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) comprised of academic, business and technology authorities has complied an excellent catalogue of Internet resources related to the study of Italian language. Access information on dialects, lingual history, translation services, grammar and more.

BUBL LINK-Italian Literature The International JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) comprised of academic, business and technology experts has complied an authoritative catalogue of Internet resources related to the study of Italian literature. Scope is broad, and includes Italian literary movements, development of Italian language and literature, and more.

Garzanti is an online Italian Dictionary.

Library of Congress Global Gateway World Culture & Resources: World Library Collections. Linked resources are comprehensive and include international print and electronic information, electronic resources on the nations of the world selected by Library of Congress subject experts, country studies, foreign research guides and legal materials, research opportunities, select items of global importance from the Library's collections, international cyber casts, and so much more.

Project Gutenberg Begun in 1971 by Michael Hart, the Internet's oldest producer of free, fine literature, digitally republished, now has over 6,000 titles in various languages and genres. Select Search option from left vertical menu box, then search by author, title, subject (i.e., language, fiction, poetry, literature), language (i.e., Italian) or Library of Congress Classification, pre selected by Project Gutenberg or choose your own at: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html, click on P--Language and Literature, choose appropriate subclass.

The WESS Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature-Italian
The WESS Italian Studies Web (Western European Studies Section - Association of College and Research Libraries. Electronic text collections of Italian poetry and literature are linked.

The WESS Italian Studies Web provides annotated links to scholarly web resources in Italian studies, both general (including reference shelf and universities, libraries and archives) and subject-specific (including art and architecture, gay and lesbian studies,
and literature) collections are well-represented.

Yamada Web Guide to Italian is maintained by the Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon. Annotated links to Italian resources available on the Web are broadly categorized by Language and Culture.

Your Dictionary.com features multilingual dictionaries, translation tools, foreign language word of the day, grammar, language-related games and more.

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Select Reference Books

Reference books are located on the 1st floor in the Reference Collection

REF DG445.C66 1981
Concise Encyclopaedia of the Italian Renaissance

REF DG450 .E53 2000
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture

REF PS221 .D5 vol.196
Italian Novelists since World War II, 1965-1995

REF PS221.D5 vol.196
Italian Prose Writers, 1900-1945

REF PQ4006. 084 2002
The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature

REF PS221 .D5 vol.114
Twentieth-Century Italian Poets

REF PC1640 .R35 1997
Il Ragazzini/Biagi Concise Dizionario Inglese Italiano

REF PC1640 .C33
Cassell's Italian Dictionary