Research Guides: Italian Studies: Finding Books, Thesis, and Dissertations

Browsing the Stacks

Library of Congress Call Number Ranges for Browsing:

Italian Language: PC 1001-1977 (4th Floor)
Italian Literature: PQ 4001 - 5999 (5th Floor)
Italian History: DG 11 - 975 (3rd Floor)
Italian Motion Pictures: PN 1993.5 .I88 (5th Floor - Books) (Ground Floor - Media)

Italian Studies Subject Headings

Italian language -- History
Italian language -- Social aspects
Italian literature -- History and Criticism
Immigrants' writings, Italian
Italian poetry -- History and Criticism
Women poets, Italian
Italian Drama
Theater -- Italian
Motion pictures -- Italian
Italian -- History
Renaissance -- Italy
Italian -- Church history

Books

UBorrow
Borrow books from any of the 11 state universities in Florida. It's faster than ILL and renewals can be requested. Start by searching the FSU catalog, then click on the blue UBorrow icon at the top of your search results. Select the book you want and click on the blue UBorrow link again to request it.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
Request books and journal articles from libraries around the world. Use ILL to request materials not available at FSU.
WorldCat (OCLC)
WorldCat (OCLC) contains over 40 million citations to books, periodicals, sound recordings, videos, musical scores, archival materials and much more, representing holdings of most libraries in North America and some in Europe.
Florida Community College Libraries
Search the union catalog for all of Florida's community college libraries or the catalog for any of the individual libraries.

HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust Digital Library contains millions of books digitized from library collections across the country. FSU users have access to many full text documents and can create new collections of material. To learn how to log into HathiTrust using Shibboleth see our guide to HathiTrust (http://guides.lib.fsu.edu/hathitrust).
Gutenberg-e
Award winning monographs from Columbia University Press, coordinated with the American Historical Association, afford emerging scholars new possibilities for online publications, weaving traditional narrative with digitized primary sources, including maps, photographs, and oral histories.

Oxford Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
A cross-searchable library containing the full text of over 1,100 Oxford books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion. Includes full text and abstracts.
Subjects with full text:
Philosophy
Law
Religion
Political Science
Economics and Finance
Psychology

Tutorials:
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Abbreviation: oso
Vendor: Oxford University Press
Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject
Type: E-Book Collections, Indexes / Catalogs
Ebook Central (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Ebook Central is a web-based book lending platform from ProQuest which is capable of delivering a rapidly expanding catalogue of books to academic and research libraries.
Abbreviation: eblibrary
Vendor: ProQuest
Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject
Type: E-Book Collections
Cambridge Books Online This link opens in a new window
With online access to unique, indispensable and extensive scholarly content, Cambridge Books Online will offer all levels of user a new dimension of access and usability to support and enhance research. FSU does not have access to all titles. Full text noted by a green circle.
Abbreviation: cbookso
Vendor: Cambridge University Press
Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject
Type: E-Book Collections

Biblioteca Italiana
Portal to Italian primary source material from the 13th to 20th centuries created and maintained by the Università di Roma. Allows for full-text searching.
Biblioteca Digitale della Letterature Italiana
Site based on the collaboration between Pianetascuola and Einaudi. Works are drawn from Einaudi's Letteratura Italiana, a multimedia library on CD-Rom. There are no search capabilities across texts and authors. Works and authors are listed alphabetically; however, many are available in PDF and downloadable.
Biblioteca dei Classici Italiani
Contains digital versions of Italian classics from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. You can search by keyword or browse by author.
Italian Women Writers
(University of Chicago) "The Italian Women Writers database provides bio-biographical information and a growing selection of full-text titles from authors born before 1945."
Italian Dialect Poetry
Created and maintained by Professor Luigi Bonaffini from Brooklyn College. It is searchable by poet name or region. Includes an extensive bibliography that includes sections on dialects and literature, anthologies, and linguistics and dialectology.

Dissertations & Theses

Dissertations & Theses (Global) (PQDT, ProQuest)
Proquest Dissertations and Theses covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital form full-text.
CRL - International Dissertation Catalog
As a CRL member institution, FSU has free and unlimited use of CRL collections through interlibrary loan.
Tesionline
Biblioteca Nazionale
DART Europe E-Theses Portal
"DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. DART-Europe is endorsed by LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche), and it is the European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)."
Alm@DL
Tesi di laurea - Università di Bologna
Catalogo Università degli Studi di Firenze
(Coverage 1976 -present) Only allows for an author or title searching, but you can also search for a keyword(s) in the title. The catalog provides citations, but some theses are available as a PDF and others have author contact information.
Institutional Repository - Università di Milano
Under "Discover or Scopri" click on "Doctoral Thesis". Some are mere citations and others include a link to the full-text. It is not possible to search, only browse theses. Interface is available in both English and Italian.

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