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This section displays a list of databases by alphabetical order. You can access single resources in the following ways:

  • Through a direct link by clicking on the name of each resource, if you access from UniTo stations or remotely via proxy;
  • through EUREKA (University's SCU credentials required).
    Please NOTE: Eureka's search mask is by default in Italian, but it is possible to change the language.
 

APPALTI & CONTRATTI

Access: Bobbio library w/ password
Keywords: Italian Law, Legislation, Comments, Public contracts, Tenders

Appalti & Contratti is a legal database devoted to the Italian regulation of public contracts and tenders. Updated on a daily bases, its fully searchable archive includes laws, cases, procedures, comments on the topics.

ARANZADI Instituciones

Access: SCU credentials
Keywords: Spanish Law, Legislation, Cases, Doctrine, Handbooks

ARCHIVIO COSTITUZIONALE

Access: Free
Keywords: International Law, Legislation, Constutions

Archivio costituzionale is a historical archive collecting former constitutions of various Countries as well as documents of Constitutional Law History, such as constitutional bills that have never become law, political documents and hardly available essays or writings of constitutional relevance.

ASIAN LEGAL INFORMATION INSTITUTE

Access: Free
Keywords: Law, Legislation

Asian Legal Information Institute is an an independent and non-governmental Law database providing access to the legislation and treatie of 28 Asian Countries. Full-text documents available.

ATLAS OF RELIGIOUS OR BELIEF MINORITY RIGHTS

Access: Free
Keywords: Law, Religion, Minorities

The Atlas is a project that aims to map and measure the rights of religious or belief minorities (RBMs) in the EU countries. The Atlas is designed to offer an easy-to-read comparative description of the status of RBMs in the EU countries, identifying and comparing the different levels of minority rights protection and promotion granted by each state and enjoyed by each RBM. The Atlas aims to contribute to the governance of religious and belief diversity in Europe, reducing unjustified inequalities between religious or belief organizations, ensuring equal enjoyment of freedom of religion and belief and fostering the development of inclusive citizenship.

BASILICA ONLINE

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access
Keywords: Byzantine Law

Basilica Online is a fully-searchable online edition of the 17 volumes of the Basilica text and its scholia, as edited between 1945 and 1988 by H.J. Scheltema, D. Holwerda, and N. van der Wal. The Basilica is an important source for Byzantine law throughout the period of the Byzantine empire, and is a major source for Byzantine studies more broadly.

BECKONLINE

Access: only computers within the UniTo Network, no remote access
Keywords: German Law, Cases, Legislation, Comments, Bibliography

BeckOnline is one of the most important detabases on the German Law System. It provides access to legal information about legislation, cases, comments in various areas of law, taken from journals and books published by Beck.

The University of Turin subscribes the following collections:

  • Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz Plus
  • Handels und Gesellschaftsrecht Premium
  • Zivilrecht Premium.

BOE - Boletìn Oficial del Estado

Access: Free
Keywords: Spanish Law, Legislation

BOE is the official database of the Spanish Agencia Estatal del Boletìn Oficial del Estado. It collects the legislation in force, codes in electronic format as well as other publications of the Boe. It also provides access to the diarios oficiales published between 1661 and 1959.

BPR - BIBLIOGRAFIA DEL PARLAMENTO Italiano e degli studi elettorali
Access: Free
Keywords: Law, Politics and Social Sciences

BPR is an institutional database collecting bibliographic references about Italian Parliament, from Savoy Statuto Albertino, which was granted in 1848, to the present day. It makes also available election studies for the same period. It includes mainly juridical studies, but also essays in politics, political sociology, organization science, history. From 2002 BPR also indexes documents published on the main law web sites.

BUG - BIBLIOTECA digitale dell'UNIFICAZIONE GIURIDICA
Access: Free
Keywords: Italian Law, Historical Legislation

BUG is a digital library on XIX century Italian legislation edited by The Law Central Library of the Italian Ministry of Justice. There are three main sections:

  • codes of the Italian States before Unification
  • legislation of provisionaol governments in 1859-1860, 1866, 1870
  • first new codes of the Kingdom of Italy

CAIRN

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access

Keywords: Multidisciplinary, Humanities, Social Sciences, French

CAIRN is an electronic platform that gathers journals in Human and Social Sciences published in French by several publishers, among which Belin, De Boeck, La Découverte, Erès. The Bibliothèque Nationale de France is also part of the project.

CAMBRIDGE CORE - eJournal and eBook LAW COLLECTION

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access

Keywords: Law

CED - Centro Elettronico di Documentazione della Corte di Cassazione

Access: Bobbio library w/ password
Keywords: Italian Law, Cases, Court of Cassation

Official database of the Italian Court of Cassation.

CNKI

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access

Keywords: Multidisciplinary, China, Journals

CKNI is a key point in Chinese national informatization project and aims at a mass digitalization of China knowledge resources. It points at creating a platform for global dissemination and value-added services. It gathers the most important Chinese academic journals, with full coverage, from the first to the latest issue published.

Collections available:

  • Literature/History/Philosophy
  • Economics/Politics/Law
  • Education/Social Sciences.

Databases available:

CORTE COSTITUZIONALE della Repubblica Italiana
Access: Free
Keywords: Italian Law, Cases, Constitutional Court

Banca dati ufficiale della Corte costituzionale che contiene i testi normativi e tutte le sentenze, il calendario dei lavori, la composizione dei giudici costituzionali dal 1956 ad oggi, interventi e rassegna stampa.

CORTE DEI CONTI

Access: Free
Keywords: Italian Law, Cases, Court of Audit

Database of the Italian Court of Audit (or Court of Accounts), collecting all cases since 2001 plus a selection of decisions taken by the Court in years prior to that date. It also provides all resolutions of the Control Sections of the Court of Audit since 2009.

DALLOZ

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access

Keywords: French Law, Cases, Legislation, Comments, Bibliography

Legal database collecting a variety of materials in all areas of French law: more than 600.000 cases in full-text, 15 law journals (among which Recueil Dalloz since 1990), more than 20 codes, 10 enciclopedias on civile, commercial, penal, public and labour law.

DeJURE - IusEXPLORER
Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access (only via proxy)
To log in, select "Accesso per IP"
Keywords: Italian Law, Legislation, Cases, Comments

DoGi - INFOLEGES (DOttrina GIuridica)
Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access

Keywords: Italian Multidisciplinary, Law, Legislation, Comments, Bibliography

Powerful research tool that searches about 350 Italian law journals. The data base contains full bibliographic descriptions and abstracts of around 400.000 articles published since 1970.

EBSCO - host 

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access

Keywords: Multidisciplinary

Platform that provides access to a variety of resources in the areas of humanities, social sciences and economics, among which:

  • Business Source Ultimate
  • EconLit with Full Text
  • Education Source
  • ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center (**)
  • Family Studies Abstracts (**)
  • Gender Studies Database (**)
  • Race Relations Abstracts (**)
  • Sociology Source Ultimate
  • Urban Studies Abstracts (**)
  • Violence & Abuse Abstracts (**)

(**) UniTo has temporarily suspended the subscription to this resource

ENCICLOPEDIA DEL DIRITTO (Giuffrè) DeJURE

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access (only via proxy)
To log in, select "Accesso per IP"
Keywords: Italian Law, Legal doctrine, Enciclopedia

Italian Enciclopedia of Law, accessible via the digital platform of the Italian publisher Giuffrè DeJure

To get in the Enciclopedia, select from the red menu:

  1. NETWORK
  2. Enciclopedia del diritto.

ESPACENET

Access: Free
Keywords: Multidisciplinary, International Law, Patents, Chemistry, Ingineering

Database of the European Patent Office that provides free access to the documentation concerning more than 140 million patent documents from around the world.

ESSPER

Access: free
Keywords: Multidisciplinary, Italian, Journals, Bibliography

Collective project carried out by academic Italian libraries providing a bibliografic data base in the areas of Economics, social sciences, history and law.

EUR-LEX

Access: Free

Keywords: Multidisciplinary, European Law, Legislation, Cases

EUR-Lex is the official gateway to EU-Law. It provides the official and most comprehensive access to EU legal documents. It is available in all of the EU's 24 official languages and is updated daily.

IL FORO ITALIANO

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access (only via proxy)
In order to enter select ACCESSO DIRETTO on the log-in page

Keywords: Multidisciplinary, Italian Law, Cases

Digital platform which provides access to cases and legal principles published on the "Repertorio del Foro Italiano" since 1981, cases and legal principles published on "Il Foro Italiano" since 1987, full-text verdicts of Civil Court of Cassation since 1997.

GAZZETTA UFFICIALE del Regno d'Italia - Progetto Au.G.U.Sto.

Access: Free

Keywords: Italian Legislation, Historical Archive

Au.G.U.Sto. (Automazione della Gazzetta Ufficiale Storica) is a digitisation project which aims at preserving and making accessible the full historical archive of the Gazzetta Ufficiale, the Italian official journal that promulgates the acts of the Italian Parliament, from 1860 to 1946, when the last issue of the "Gazzetta del Regno d'Italia" (Gazette of the Kingdom of Italy) was published.

GAZZETTA UFFICIALE della Repubblica Italiana

Access: Free

Keywords: Multidisciplinary, Italian Law, Legislation, Cases, Comments, Bibliography

Portal of the Italian "Gazzetta Ufficiale" which allow to searchn for specific issues of the journal or single legislative acts.

GESETZE IM INTERNET - JURIS

Access: Free

Keywords: German Law, Legislation

Institutzional website of the German Ministry of Justice. It provides all German Federal legislation.

GIURISPRUDENZA DELLE IMPRESE

Access: Free

Keywords: Italian Law, Cases, Economics, Business, Corporation

"Giurispriudenza delle imprese" is a project carried out by the Disiano Preite Association in collaboration with the most important Commercial Courts in Italy. It provides a free-access full-text collection of all verdicts and deliberatioins pronounced by the Courts that partecipate in the project.

GIUSTIZIA AMMINISTRATIVA

Access: Free

Keywords: Multidisciplinary, Italian Law, Cases

Istitutional portal that allows to search for full-text deliberations pronounced by the Italian Council of State and the Regional Administative Courts (T.A.R.) since 1994, alongside with essays in the area of administrative law.

GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Access: Free

Keywords: Multidisciplinary

HEINONLINE

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access

Keywords: International Law, Cases, Legislation, Comments

HeinOnline is an image-based legal research database with a fully sercheable and user-friendly interface. It provides a vareiety of document types (in PDF) on a wide range of topics related to US and Iternational law, legislation, cases and comments. The content gathered stams from more than 1.500 sources in English, from the second half of 19th Century onward and consists of more than 320.000 records, 285.000 articles and 34.000 book reviews.

Subscribed collections include: Core Collection, the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals, collections of legal history such as Selden Society Publications and Scottish Legal History. Sections of institutional documentation are also available, among which: U.S. Supreme Court Library, U.S. President Library, U.S. Federal Legislative History Library, Treaties and Agreements Library, American Law Institute Library.

Video Tutorial: Basic search

HUDOC - Data base of the European Court of Human Rights

Access: Free

Keywords: Multidisciplinary, European Law, Cases, Human rights

Database which collects all cases and documents of the Eurpopen Court of HumanRights

I. A. REPORTER - Investment Arbitration Reporter

Access: Bobbio library w/ password

Keywords: Multidisciplinary, Law, International Finanancial Law, Arbitration

IEL - INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF LAW

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access

Keywords: Law, Labour law

The International Encyclopaedia for Labour Law and Industrial Relations provides information to the international business and labour relations communities. Edited by Frank Hendrickx, IEL has over a hundred detailed country monographs, international monographs and European Works Council monographs. Available monographs cover labour law in Belgium, China, Czech Republic, the European Union, France, New Zealand, Russia, the United States.

INFOLEGES

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access

Keywords: Multidisciplinary, Italian and European Law, Legislation, Cases, Comments, Bibliography

IUSIMPRESA

Access: Free

Keywords: Multidisciplinary, Bibliography, Economics, Law, Cases, Business, Europe, Comments

Ius Impresa is a free online multilingual research tool in Iitalian, English, Franch, German, Spanish and Portuguese, which offers bibliographic references of articles published since 2001 in the area of Law of Economics.

JSTOR

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access

Keywords: Multidisciplinary

Jstor is a digital library that provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.

KLUWER ARBITRATION

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access

Keywords: Law, International Arbitration, International Law

Kluwer Arbitration is the leading online resource for international arbitration research. It contains numerous commentaries from experts and a large collection of base materials such as conventions, regulations, case law, legislation, and data on organizations and states. A large Training video section allows for learning about basic and advanced searches and how to use research filters, Boolean operators and practice tools.

KLUWER LAW ONLINE

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access

Keywords: Law, International Law, European Law, Comparative Law

Platform of the publisher Wolter Kluwer that provides access to journals and handbooks belonging to the "Law International" collection.

LÉGIFRANCE

Access: Free

Keywords: French Law, Legislation, Cases

LEXIS 360

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access

Keywords: French law

PLEASE NOTE: To use the data base you need to register with your institutional e-mail address (@unito.it or @edu.unito.it). To log in, select:  (1) Se connecter (on the right above); (2) Créer un profil maintenant.

MAX PLANCK ENCYCLOPEDIAS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access

Keywords: International law, Comparative constitutional law

IL MULINO - DARWINBOOKS

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access

Keywords: Multidisciplinary, e-books, Italian

NATLEX

Access: Free

Keywords: International Labour Law, Legislation

NEXIS UNI

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access

Keywords: Multidisciplinary

International database of legal and economic information of the United States of America, European countries and many Commonwealth countries. It contains economic and financial company information, company profiles, industrial analyzes, patents. It also integrates news, discussion lists, periodicals, newspapers, company profiles, market reports and research, government documents and international legislation.

NORMATTIVA.IT

Access: Free

Keywords: Multidisciplinary, Italian Law, Legislation, Comments, Bibliography

Official data base on the Italian legislation that collects - and allows to search for - all types of norms and numbered acts (leggi, decreti legge, decreti legislativi, leggi regionali, and other numbered acts), since the birth of the Italia unitary State. Three different modalities are available for every law in the data base:

  • The originary text, as initially published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale;
  • The current text, i.e. the text of the norm in force at the date in which the research is made;
  • The text of the norm in force at any point in time prior to the date in which the research is made.

ONE LEGALE - Wolters Kluwer - former Leggi d'Italia

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access, via Idem Garr, both inside and outside UniTo. 

Instructions:

  1. select "Accedi" e then opt for "Ho già un account" (I already have an account)
  2. select the option "Continuare con Idem Garr"
  3. select "Università di Torino" from the list of institutions or type it in the search bar
  4. enter your institutional credentials: the system will redirect you to the platform homepage

One is a portal from the publisher Wolters Kluwer which gives integrated access - with advaced search options - to legal and fiscal content partly already covered by former databases by the same publisher, such as Leggi d'Italia Legale and PA, as well as Il Fisco.

Contenuts are available via the following links:

ORIL - INERNATIONAL LAW IN DOMESTIC COURTS

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access

Keywords: Law, International law, cases

Oxford Reports on International Law (ORIL) is a database of the Oxford University Press that provides a broad coverage of public international case law, reporting on international courts, domestic courts and ad hoc tribunals. Case reports contain the full text of each decision, headnote, as well as analytical commentary and English translations of a number of key non-English decisions.

OSAIL - OXFORD SCHOLARLY AUTHORITIES ON INTERNATIONAL LAW

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access

Keywords: Law, International law

Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law (OSAIL) contains over 180 full-text online editions reference works and treatises published by Oxford University Press, including Oppenheim, and the Oxford Commentaries on International Law.

OSO - OXFORD SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access

Keywords: Law, Comments

Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) is a vast library, providing easy access to thousands of books across the scholarly list of Oxford University Press (OUP). The University of Turin has subscribed the law collection.

OXIO - OXFORD INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access

Keywords: International Law

Oxford International Organizations (OXIO) is a database of the Oxford University Press on the law of international organizations. Unique of its kind, it collects and gives access through a single tool to important documents for the study of international organizations, such as internal acts and practices. Documents are accompanied by notes, citations and intertextual references.

PEACE PALACE LIBRARY

Access: Free

Keywords: International Law

PKULAW

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access
Keywords: Chinese Law

Database on Chinese law by Beijing University.

PODER JUDICIAL ESPAÑA

Access: Free

Keywords: Spanish Law, Cases

Database of the Spanish Consejo General del Poder Judicial collecting all verdicts of Tribunal Supremo, Audiencia Nacional, Tribunales Superiores de Justicia e Audiencia Provincial.

ProQUEST - Dissertations & Theses Global

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access
Keywords: Multidisciplinary

SCOPUS

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access
Keywords: Multidisciplinary, Abstracts, Citations

SDGO - Sustainable Development Goals Online
Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access
Keywords: Multidisciplinary

Database of the publisher Taylor and Francis which makes articles, book chapters and entire monographs available in digital format for online consultation and download. The educational and information material focuses on macro-areas, corresponding to the 17 goals that the UN has set itself as part of its commitment to sustainable global development. Among these: the fight against poverty and hunger, gender equality, quality education, improvement of health, working and salary conditions, peace, climate action, affordable and clean energy, etc.

SWISSLEX

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access  (only via proxy)

Keywords: Swiss Law

Legal Database specialised in Swiss Law. A powerful research tool allows to search for legal material (court decisions, treaties, journals and commentaries). Full lists of journals and books, available for full-text reading, are to find in the "Bibliothek" section. The website is in German or, alternatively, in French but it is also possible to perform a search in other languages.

U.N. DOCUMENTATION CENTRE

Access: Free

Keywords: Multidisciplinary, Law

USPTO - Patent Full-Text Databases

Access: Free

Keywords: Multidisciplinary, US Law, Patents, Engineering, Chemistry

WEB OF SCIENCE

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access

Keywords: Multidisciplinary, Abstracts, Citations

WESTLAW

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access

Keywords: Intermational Law, Cases, Legislation, Comments

WORLD RELIGION DATABASE

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access

Keywords: Social Sciences, Religion, Statistics

The World Religion Database (WRD) contains detailed statistics on religious affiliation for every country of the world. It provides source material, including censuses and surveys, as well as best estimates for every religion to offer a definitive picture of international religious demography.

 
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