LIsts and locates the materials the library owns (books, journals, magazines, newspapers, media materials, government documents, etc.), provides access to many electronic texts (both books and journals), and is the gateway to materials available to CSULB students, faculty, and staff from other libraries (via Link+ and Inter-Library Services).
A sampling of subject headings of use to students of Italian includes, but is not limited to:
Italian literature--History and Criticism
These resources are relevant to research in ITALIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. All are available in the Reference Center in the University Library; many are accessible remotely. For a complete list (with descriptions) of all ELECTRONIC REFERENCE SOURCES at the CSULB Library, please click HERE.
MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
Indexes scholarly books, critical articles and essays in journals, and books on post-classical literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Coverage: 1963 to date. Updated ten times per year.
HUMANITIES ABSTRACTS
Citations to more than 400 periodicals on archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Abstracts are available from March 1994 to date. Coverage: February 1984 to date. Updated monthly.
ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE
Find references to more than 3,000 periodicals in a wide range of subject areas, with many dating back to 1984. Also provides full-text data for over 1,200 journals, with many dating back to 1990. Updated as information received.
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
Good source for references to journal articles and documents on teaching languages. References to thousands of educational topics. Coverage: 1966 to date. Updated monthly.
LIBRARY PRESS DISPLAY
Provides same day, front to back coverage from over 300 newspapers in the U.S. and around the world. It is just like reading the familiar print edition, viewers can browse articles and other key content, such as pictures, advertisements, classifieds, and notices while enjoying 60-day back issues access. Updated daily.
NEWSPAPERS (ProQuest Newspapers)
U.S. and international news sources. Includes coverage of 150+ major U.S. and international newspapers such as The New York Times and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and new wires. Many articles are full text. Updated daily.
DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS
Doctoral dissertations and masters theses from over 1,000 North American and European universities. Coverage: 1861 to date. Updated monthly.
PROJECT MUSE
Provides full-text electronic versions of several hundered scholarly journals. Updated monthly.
JSTOR
A continuously growing electronic archive of core scholarly journal literature in full text, with the aim of digitizing the complete backfiles of selected journals in these major subject areas: African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population/demography, sociology, and statistics. Coverage: not a current file. Most current issues of the JSTOR journals are from two to five years old.
LEXIS NEXIS ACADEMIC
Good source for full-text of newspapers in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Also contains text of many journals, legal digests and reports, and other publications covering economic, business, medical, social science and popular culture issues. Coverage: most files started between 1970 and 1985 and run to the present. Some legal materials (laws, court reporters, law digests) go back to 1799. Choose the 'Guided News' search tab; then 'Select a News Category' such as World News or Non-English Language News; then 'Select a News Source'; then enter your search terms, and narrow by date if desired; and click on 'Search' to retrieve items. Articles retieved may be read online, printed, or emailed.
INGENTA
Ingenta is a multidisciplinary database indexing topics ranging from science, technology, and medicine to the humanities and social sciences. Updated daily.
The following journals or newspapers are available on the internet. Please note: in order to access the full contents of some titles, you may be required to register for and/or subscribe to the journal.
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ALL THE WORLD'S NEWSPAPERS
A collection of addresses for world newspapers on the internet.
If you want to search for more ELECTRONIC JOURNALS in this subject or in a subject of your choice, please click here.
These internet sites may be of particular interest to students and faculty in ITALIAN.
iLOVE LANGUAGES
Formerly known as The Human Languages Page, iLoveLanguges is a guide to language-related internet resources.
LANGUAGE LINKS
Materials for use by teachers and learners of languages.
VERBIX: ON-LINE CONJUGATOR
Choose your language, then either one of the top 10 verbs or type in the infinitive of another verb; also has translation of verbs from and to other languages.
VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE
A collection of resources for humanities research. Includes links to information on general humanities resources, and to other disciplines among which one may find links to anthropology, archaeology, architecture, area and regional studies, art and art history, classical studies, history, linguistics, literature, music and dance, philosophy, religious studies, and women's studies, for example.
WESS Web
Focuses on information useful to Western European Specialists. The Italian Studies Web provides annotated links to scholarly web resources.
These titles are resources for the study of ITALIAN LITERATURE and LANGUAGE. Items with REF preceding the call number will be found in the Reference Center on the 1st floor of the University Library.
THE FEMINIST ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ITALIAN LITERATURE
REF PQ 4063 .F45 1997
The Department of Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures
Content maintained by Eileen Bosch, Italian Librarian
