Databases List (A-Z)

Bibliografía de la literatura espanola
The Bibliografía de la Literatura Española is a bibliographic directory relating to Spanish literature. It includes bibliographical references to monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, bibliographies, conference proceedings, and other miscellaneous material published in Spain or abroad.

Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina online
It contains the texts of Latin authors from the origins to the end of the Roman Empire, with the addition of about 190 works from late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. The texts refer to editions published in the Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana series, but do not include critical apparatus, introductions and commentaries.

Business Source Complete
Bibliographic database specializing in the fields of economics, finance, marketing, business and management. Includes financial data, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analysis.

CAB Abstracts
CABI DIGITAL LIBRARY PLATFORM (since 1905)
OVID PLATFORM (since 1973)
Bibliographic information database providing access to millions of bibliographic records and abstracts from periodicals, monographs, theses, newsletters, bulletins, conference proceedings from 1973 to the present. Topics covered: agriculture, veterinary medicine, biology, chemistry, food science, environmental science, pharmacology, veterinary science, forestry science, earth and environmental science, nutrition science, microbiology, parasitology, applied economics.

Cambridge Structural Database
World-wide database of crystal structures of small organic and metallo-organic molecules. Contains numerous 3D structures from X-ray diffraction and neutron analysis.
For access write to bibchim@unipr.it

CAS SciFinder-n
International platform for browsing the bibliographic and factual databases of the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). Electronic version of the historic paper Chemical Abstracts directory with data present from the early 1800s to the present.
References include scientific articles, patents, reports, theses, and proceedings in chemistry.
It is also possible to search for substances, reactions, and patents by name, by chemical formula, or by registry number.
The Chemical Abstracts Service databases also cover fields such as biology, biotechnology, physics, engineering, medicine, agriculture, and genetics.
For access write to bibchim@unipr.it

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Primary database providing access to numerous bibliographic resources for the nursing and parasanical field.

Cochrane Library
Crucial collection of databases for evidence-based clinical practice (EBM) decision support.

Code of Food Substances 
Large collection of current in-text legislation on food and beverages. Contains international legislation, EU legislation, national legislation, regional legislation (in addition to regional legislation, it also includes the main secondary standardization acts-regulations, resolutions, circulars-relating to the subject), technical legislation (the technical measures-circulars, letters-circulars, etc....-issued by agencies and/or institutes; the most important UNI standards in full text and the main NSF/ANSI technical standards), judicial acts (main judgments issued by the EU courts, constitutional courts, and ordinary and administrative courts).
The normative documents are all in current text, complete with technical annexes, forms, formulas, and graphics, as well as accompanied by timely editorial notes reconstructing their changes over time.
For access write to bibvet@unipr.it

Communication & Mass Media Complete
Bibliographical database specializing in the fields of advertising, marketing, game studies, journalism, communication and mass media.

Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi : CALMA
Electronic edition of Latin Middle Ages. Bibliographical Bulletin of European Culture from Boethius to Erasmus, which is an important reference for medieval scholars. The database includes the entire bibliography published in the print edition.

Econlit with Full Text 
Bibliographic database of the American Economic Association that provides access to bibliographic information, with abstracts, specializing in various fields of economics: economic theory and history, microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, monetary and financial economics, labor, public health, agriculture, demographic, urban and rural economics, regional, national and international economics. Indexes articles of international periodicals, monographs, reviews, conference proceedings, working papers, and publications of organizations and institutions.

EDRA Ebook
Collection of medical-scientific texts in flipbook format.

Education Source
Database in the field of science on education. It contains the full-text of hundreds of journals and e-books on pedagogical topics such as pre-school and school education, teaching methods, adult education, multicultural education, and distance learning.

e-IFRS
The IFRS Foundation's portal that provides access to the IFRS Standards adopted and developed by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). To access request credentials at biblec@unipr.it

Embase
Up-to-date bibliographic database for biomedical and pharmacological research.

Emerald
Database providing access to academic journals and ebooks published by Emerald in the multidisciplinary field, specializing in business management.

ERIC
Bibliographic database related to education sciences, formed by Resources in Education (RIE) which includes official documents and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) which includes articles published in over 775 periodicals, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the United States Department of Education. It provides access to millions of bibliographic records of journal articles and other materials related to education.

ESSPER
Archive of strips of Italian periodicals in economics, social sciences, and history.

European Pharmacopoeia Online
The European Pharmacopoeia is the pharmaceutical code that harmonizes the texts of the main official pharmacopoeias of the European states and identifies recognized common standards on the quality of medicines; it aims to ensure homologous quality parameters for medicines at the European level.
Consultable at the chemistry section of the Central Library of Science and Technology. For remote access, write to bibfarm@unipr.it

Food Science Source
Bibliographic database specializing in the fields of agriculture, food, food processing, food safety and logistics. It also provides access to a wide range of food industry and market reports.

Formularioappalti.it
Formulary on public procurement, updated with the provisions introduced by the new Contracts Code and implementing measures (ANAC Guidelines and MIT Decrees).
For access, send an email to bibgiuri@unipr.it

ForoPlus
Allows searching in different archives: case law, bibliography, civil cassation, criminal cassation, merit and extra, classification of laws. From the same platform it is also possible to access Rivista il Foro Italiano, Riviste La Tribuna
To access click DIRECT ACCESS

FSTA : Food Science and Technology Abstracts
Produced by IFIS (International Food Science Information), it is the world's leading database of information on food science, food technology and nutrition. The database includes materials from journals, patents, standards and more. It covers all food products plus biotechnology, microbiology, food safety, additives, nutrition, packaging, and veterinary medicine in addition to many other interdisciplinary subjects all related to food. Coverage ranges from 1969 to the present. The database includes more than 1.5 million records with over 90,000 records added annually.
Accessible via EBSCO platform.

HeinOnline
Full-text database of mainly Anglo-American legal periodicals, legal publications, regulatory directories, case law collections.
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Historical Abstracts
Includes articles and journals whose contributions cover world history (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.

Humanities Source
Resource designed for researchers and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities, Offers access to key content for analyzing and learning about literary, academic, and creative thinking. It includes, among other things, the full-text of hundreds of academic journals cited in the most accredited indexes of their respective disciplines, and also contains interviews, bibliographies, reviews of books, musicals, operas, videos, radio and television programs, and much other heterogeneous and multimedia material.

IEEE Xplore Digital Library(The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Full-text database of documents published by IEEE and in part by IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) in the fields of electrical, electronic, telecommunications and computer engineering.
It contains more than 5 million publications (monographs, articles, conference proceedings, standards, technical standards) from 1988 (for some types since 1972) to the present.

Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text 
Indicates articles from periodicals, yearbooks, university and government publications, published worldwide, pertaining to all aspects of law and legal disciplines.

Infoleges.co.uk
Method engine that searches several archives: EU Legislation, State Legislation, Regional Legislation, EU Jurisprudence, Italian Jurisprudence, Official Gazette, Collective Bargaining Agreements, Public Competitions.

International Bibliography of Art
Offers perusal of over 500 international periodical publications and indexes reviews, monographs, essays, and exhibition catalogs.
Disciplinary coverage includes European art from antiquity to the present, American art from colonial times to the present, and international art since 1945, covering visual arts and all media, applied and decorative arts, museum and conservation studies, archaeology, and architectural history. More than 60 percent of the stripped sources are in German, French, Italian and Spanish.

International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with full text
It is the most comprehensive database in the field of theater and dance. It makes available the full text of the leading international journals on the performing arts with the full text of 190 active journals, 40 open access journals and 60,000 journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertation abstracts.

Italinemo
It analyzes, tabulates and indexes Italianistic journals published worldwide since 2000 providing the abstract for each article.

Karger ejournal collection
Search within the Karger collection of periodicals with biomedical content.

Klapp-online : Bibliographie der französischen Literaturwissenschaft 
A useful bibliographical research tool on French literature; contains bibliographical data from 1991 to the present, while the years 1956-1990 have been digitized and are accessible as a searchable pdf.

Kubikat
Online catalog of the Union of Art Libraries, of which the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich and the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte in Paris are members in addition to the Hertziana. It is one of the leading research tools in art history. It offers bibliographical news of monographs, periodicals, and conference proceedings held by major specialized libraries, with the strips of periodicals and conference proceedings.

Library of Latin Texts B
The publisher, starting from the core of patristic and medieval texts in the Cetedoc Library of Christian Latin Texts (CLCLT), has extended the content of the database to the entire Latin literature, from its origins to the texts of the Second Vatican Council. It allows targeted searches, either on single words or extended expressions, in the entire database or in specific parts of it using filters for historical periods, works and authors.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts 
It indexes more than 560 core journals, about 50 priority journals and 125 selected journals, and also makes available books, proceedings and research reports. Topics include librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information gathering, information management, and more. Database content starts from the mid-1960s.

NBER
Bibliographic database providing access to the archive of Working papers produced by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), in various fields: finance, international trade, education, developing countries, economic growth, health, macroeconomics, industrial organization, labor, monetary economics, productivity, and public economics.

Normattiva
Free database, contains all numbered state regulatory acts published in the Official Gazette from 1861 to the present.

Norms UNI  (Italian National Organization for Standardization)
The UNI (Italian National Organization for Standardization) Standards platform contains the complete collection of UNI standards consisting of the full texts of: national UNI standards (UNI), transpositions of European CEN (European Commitee for Standardization) standards (UNI EN), adoptions of International ISO (International Organization for Standardization) standards (UNI ISO), withdrawn and/or superseded editions.
For access and other information please refer to the dedicated page.

ONE Fiscale
Allows you to search several archives: Case Law, National Legislation, Regional Legislation, EU Legislation, International Conventions, Codes, Praxis, Annotated Codes, Forms, Journals.
From the same platform you can also access: Professional Newsstand; My Library; IPSOA Quotidiano; ONE Legal; ONE PA.
To log in click on Sign In at the top of the screen
click on I already have an account
click on Ditto Garr
inscribe Parma in the Search for an organization field and select University of Parma
proceed with University accreditation

ONE Legale
Allows searching in different archives: Digest, Case Law, National and International Legislation, Regional Legislation, EU and EU Legislation, Practices, Codes, Annotated Codes, Forms, Journals. From the same platform you can also access Professional Newsstand; My Library; The Legal Newspaper; ONE Fiscal; ONE PA.
To sign in click on Sign in at the top of the screen
click on I already have an account
click on Ditto Garr
enter Parma in the Search for an organization field and select University of Parma
proceed with University accreditation

ONE PA
Allows searching in different archives: Digest, Jurisprudence, National and International Legislation, Regional Legislation, EU and EU Legislation, Practices, Codes, UNI Standards, Forms, Journals. From the same platform you can also access Professional Newsstand; My Library; The Newspaper for PA; ONE Fiscal; ONE Legal.
To sign in click on Sign in at the top of the screen
click on I already have an account
click on Ditto Garr
type Parma in the Search for an organization field and select University of Parma
proceed with University accreditation

Osservatori.net Digital Innovation
Online platform that provides access to the research of the Observatories on Digital Innovation of the Politecnico di Milano. Allows you to download thematic reports, infographics, insights, business cases, and to participate in conferences on digital innovation topics held by leading experts in the field. Consult at the library. To make an appointment, write to biblec@unipr.it from your mail account @unipr.it

Oxford English Dictionary Online
Electronic version of the great OED, a monolingual English dictionary useful for those doing linguistic, etymological and word history studies.

Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions
Free database. Contains hundreds of entries on major U.S. Supreme Court cases.

Oxford Reference Online
Portal offering access to more than 100 dictionaries and reference works in the various subject areas: linguistics, history, literature, art, science, medicine, economics, law, political science, and social science published by Oxford University Press.

Reaxys
Reaxys offers information and data on chemical compounds, structures, and reactions with bibliographic citations from journals and patents. It was created as an evolution of the three databases CrossFire Beilstein, CrossFire Gmelin, and Patent Chemistry Database. Disciplinary coverage includes: organic, inorganic, metallorganic, pharmaceutical, analytical, physical, environmental and materials chemistry, biochemistry, and biological sciences. The temporal coverage of the bibliographic data starts from 1771.

Regional Business News
Bibliographic database providing access to business journals, newspapers, and newspapers covering metropolitan and rural areas of the United States.

RILM : abstracts of music literature
Bibliographic database specializing in musicology, resulting from the compilation of two different databases: RILM abstracts (Repertoire Internationale de Literature Musicale) from 1969 to the current year (records from more than 300 international periodicals) and The Music Catalog of the Library of Congress (records of monographs, series, periodicals, scores, manuscripts, sound recordings) since 1960.
Includes all types of publications on music, in all formats: books, periodicals, online resources, research-based recordings and films, dissertations, and more.

Rivisteweb
Italian collection of journals in the humanities and social sciences. Presents articles from more than 80 active journals and an archive of nearly 100 periodicals from the il Mulino group (Società editrice il Mulino and Carocci editore).

Thesaurus Linguae Grecae (TLG)
Full-text database collecting Greek literature from Homer (8th century B.C.) to the fall of Byzantium (1453 A.D.): the database, which is still growing, contains the works of more than 3,000 authors from Homer to 600 A.D, as well as historiographical and lexicographical texts and scolii from 600 AD to 1453, totaling more than 11,000 titles and 76 million words. The goal of the project is to digitize all Greek literature up to the present day. Searchable in English.

Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
The online version of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae provides access to all the contents of the Lexicon published up to 2008 (these are the letters A-M, O, P-pomifer, porta-pulso), the articles published in the Onomasticon (letters C and D), the Index librorum and the Praemonenda de rationibus et usu operis, a multilingual introduction to the printed version of the Thesaurus. TTL online is thus configured identical to the print version of the Thesaurus.
Each year, the contents of newly published fascicles will be added to TLL Online.

Trismegistos: Leuven Database of Ancient Books
Platform dedicated to the study of texts from the ancient world, with a special focus on the area of Egypt and Upper Nile, covering a chronological span of sources from 800 BC to 800 AD.
In addition to collecting and making accessible data and information on published papyrological documents from Greco-Roman Egypt and epigraphic material, the platform connects users with institutions engaged in the preservation of the materials described, directing them to the institutions' websites, where more information, often including photographs, transliterations and translations of the texts, can be found.

Tropag & Rural : abstracts on tropical agriculture and abstracts on rural development in the tropics
Semiannually updated bibliographic database relating to tropical agriculture in the developing rural areas of Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the Americas. Contains over 179,000 records from 1975 to the present, drawn from over 5,000 journals and gray literature sources. Covers numerous topics including animal husbandry, aquaculture, international cooperation, health development, and education.

U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP)
It is the pharmacopeia for the United States, dedicated to the development of standards in the fields of galenic preparation, biologics, pharmaceutical manufacturing and other areas.
To gain access, all those with an email address with domain <@unipr.it> or <@students.unipr.it>must create an account.
The user agrees to use the resource for academic and non-commercial purposes.

UpToDate
Up-to-date platform of evidence-based clinical information (EBM) useful as clinical decision support.

The 1st access requires free registration and, thereafter, can be accessed from APP and/or remotely without VPN. To register:

1. connect to UpToDate from the university network by typing https://www.uptodate.com/login;
2. click on the "Register" link in the upper right corner and fill out the form to create your account, then click on "Submit";
3. for subsequent logins, use the "Sign In" link to login;
4. to maintain access to UpToDate you must confirm your affiliation with the University of Parma every 90 days. To do so, simply log in to UpToDate from the university network.

To learn more, see also Access to UpToDate Anywhere for UNIPR users - How to create an account and log in remotely.

Urbadoc
It consists of 5 bibliographic databases, produced by the member countries of the Urbandata Association (Spain, Germany, UK, France and Italy) for the purpose of promoting the dissemination and exchange of information on urban planning and related disciplines. 
The database contains about 700,000 references to research publications on urban planning, habitat, urban and regional policies, and land management. The temporal coverage ranges from the early 20th century to the present, although the prevalence of information is from 1980 onward. The spatial coverage is mainly related to publications from Urbandata member countries.

Web of Science (WOS)
Bibliographic and citation database related to the field of sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

Workspace - Refinitiv-Datastream
Factual database of financial field among the most important internationally. Main series cover: stocks and bonds, stock market indices, interest and exchange rates, futures, options and warrants, M&A and private equity transactions, and commodities markets. It also contains macroeconomic data from national statistical institutes and international bodies. Data are loadable in time series on spreadsheet. It also provides real-time data. It also contains information on both U.S. and international public and private companies. Consult at the library. To make an appointment, write to biblec@unipr.it from your @unipr.it

mail account.