Research Guides: Italian Literature & Language

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Journals/Magazines

Literature Online (LION) with MLA Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
English and American poetry, drama and prose plus other world literatures (French, Spanish, German, etc.); full-text literature journals, criticism, plays, and reference resources.
Note: Cross-search MLA under Criticism & Reference

JSTOR Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available Resource contains images
Complete backfiles of core scholarly journals, searchable by journal (1 or more), keywords, author, title etc. Files do not include the latest 3-5 years. The content is delivered as page images.  Results from image searches can be dragged from the website to your desktop and then used in a paper or presentation (for educational use only).

Project Muse Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
Full-text scholarly journals in the Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Mathematics; Coverage varies by journal but generally only 2-3 current years.

Academic Search Premier Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
Multi-disciplinary database which includes a large collection of peer-reviewed journals in many areas of academic study including: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, ethnic & multicultural studies, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields.  Coverage varies, but begins in the 1990s for most journals.

General OneFile Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
Current journal and news information in humanities, education, business, science, art, politics, economics, social sciences, law, health care, computers, technology and environmental issues. Formerly InfoTrac OneFile.
Note: Formerly known as InfoTrac OneFile

ProQuest Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
Business, humanities, general information, social life, law etc. ABI/INFORM databases, ProQuest Newspapers, Research Library and several others.
Note: Scroll down to pick and choose your own combination of databases to search.

Web Sites

Voice of the Shuttle: Literatures other than English Unrestricted Resource
Gateway to Web sites & text collections -- African languages through the Welsh language

Language Center : Ithaca College Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
Description of Center services, catalog by language of resources for language study, schedule of language tutoring services.

Atlases

CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Theory and research in international affairs; working and occasional papers, research projects, conference proceedings, books, journals and policy briefs. 1991-

Bibliographies

Literature Online (LION) with MLA Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
English and American poetry, drama and prose plus other world literatures (French, Spanish, German, etc.); full-text literature journals, criticism, plays, and reference resources.
Note: Cross-search MLA under Criticism & Reference

WorldCat (via FirstSearch) Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
WorldCat (via FirstSearch) provides bibliographic information for over 41 million books and multimedia owned by libraries worldwide.

Dictionaries

Cambridge Italian dictionary
Call Number: REF PC1640.R4
Unrestricted Resource
Standard Italian-English and English-Italian dictionary for English-speakers.

Dizionario delle lingue Italiana e Inglese
Call Number: REF PC1001.D5
Unrestricted Resource
Scholarly Italian-English and English-Italian dictionary.

Il Nuovo Etimologico : DELI ; Dizionario etimologica della lingua Italiana
Call Number: REF PC1580.C67 1999
Unrestricted Resource
Italian-Italian dictionary with detailed definitions and word origins

Il Ragazzini : Dizionario Inglese-Italiano, Italiano-Inglese
Call Number: REF PC1640.R26 2003
Unrestricted Resource
Contemporary Italian-English, English-Italian dictionary prepared in Italy

Sansoni Dictionaries English-Italian Italian-English
Call Number: REF PC1640 .R26 1995
Unrestricted Resource
Dictionary of contemporary vocabulary.

WordReference.com Unrestricted Resource
Free contemporary dictionaries - French-English, English-French, Italian-English, English-Italian. Spanish-English, English-Spanish,  German and Russian

Oxford Reference: Bilingual Dictionaries Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
Bilingual dictionaries, including specialized vocabularies, for: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Irish, Welsh

Lexicool.com Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Directory of online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries freely available on the Internet. Intended for translators, linguists, language students and all those interested in foreign languages.

Enciclopedia Zanichelli
Call Number: REF AE35.E55 2001
Unrestricted Resource
Italian-Italian dictionary of contemporary technical and scholarly usage

Directories

MLA Directory of Publications Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Incl. 7,100+ titles; of these, 4,400+ are currently indexed. The entries list editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, and submission guidelines. The directory also provides statistics on how many articles and book reviews the periodicals publish each year, as well as how many are submitted.

E-books

International Children's Digital Library Unrestricted Resource

A collection of online children's books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world.  Books can be searched by age group, genre, award, country, and language. Here are just a few of the languages available:

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of contemporary Italian culture
Call Number: REF DG450.E53 2000
Unrestricted Resource
Encyclopedic entries on 20th century Italian art, literature, popular culture, etc

Dictionary of modern Italian history
Call Number: REF REF DG545.D53 1985
Unrestricted Resource
Encyclopedia-style entries on events, people, places from Italian history 18th-20th century.

Handbooks & Guides

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
Call Number: REF LB2369 .G53 2003
Unrestricted Resource
The Modern Language Association guide to writing research papers in the Humanities, covering grammar & punctuation, formatting, and citation.

MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing
Call Number: REF PN147 .G444 1998
Unrestricted Resource
The Modern Language Association guide to the basics of scholarly writing, the preparation of dissertations, and the publication of journal articles and books.

Twayne's Authors Series Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Full-text biographies and literary criticism of authors (ancient to modern); discussion of literary genres and literary movements.

Coursebook in Romance linguistics / Jurgen Klausenburger
Call Number: PC43 .K53 2001
Unrestricted Resource
Introduction to linguistics of the Romance language family; French, Italian, Spanish, etc.

Images

ARTstor Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available Resource contains images
Database of more than 1,000,000 digital images representing visual and material culture across cultures and time periods. Documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture. ARTstor tools enable the ability to save groups of images online for personal and classroom use. IC's Visual Resources Collection (VRC) of over 20,000 images is now available. Look for the Ithaca College-Visual Resouces Collection link in the lower middle section of the page.

Newspapers--International

LexisNexis Academic Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Full-text access to continuously updated news, law, and business information. Highlights: News: newswires, transcripts, regional, national/international news, & Gallup Polls; Legal: law review articles, federal case law, and federal/state codes; Business: company profiles, country profiles, and SEC filings; People: directories from the entertainment industry, elected officials, executives, politicians, and obituaries.  Also has a section that includes full-text of several health newsletters and abstracts of articles in major medical journals.

Eufeeds Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
News feeds from 300 European newspapers, organized by country

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

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.

Imooty Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
European news navigator

Primary Sources

The Online Books Page Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
25,000 e-texts, search by Title, Author, or Subject; browse by LC Call Number.

Project Gutenberg Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Full text books. 13,000+ e-books.

The Online Medieval & Classical Library Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Berkeley Digital Library e-texts of important literary works of medieval and classical civilization.

Video

Europa Film Treasures Unrestricted Resource Resource contains video
A film initiative from the Treasures of European Archives project that provides free streaming films. The films date from 1895 to the present and are representative of film efforts in Europe and the Americas.