eBook Platforms

This section contains a list of ebook platforms 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.
 

EBOOK PLATFORMS

 
BLOOMSBURY

Keywords: Arts, Humanities, Social sciences

 Bloomsbury collections delivers online access to scholarly books from Bloomsbury’s award-winning Academic division. Spanning the arts, humanities and social sciences, the site features the latest research publications from Bloomsbury, T&T Clark, The Arden Shakespeare and Hart Publishing, alongside scholarship from historic imprints Continuum, Berg and Bristol Classical Press. New frontlist collections are added each year.

BREPOLS 2013

BREPOLS 2014

BREPOLS 2015

Keywords: Multidisciplinary

The subscribed Collection gives access to the full-text of volumes on miscellaneous subjects published in 2013, 2014 and 2015 and containing around 900 essays.

BRILL - Basilica online

Keywords: Byzantin 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 the single-most important source for Byzantine law throughout the period of the Byzantine empire, and is a major source for Byzantine studies more broadly.

BRILLONLINE

Keywords: Classics

The University of Turin has subscribed the following digital collections in the Classical Studies:

  • New Pauli Online: English version of the aencyclopedic work Der Neue Pauli, published in 1996 by J.B. Metzler Verlag and devoted to the ancient Greek-Roman world;
  • Jacoby Online: online version of Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker, a worlk edited by the German philologist Felix Jacoby that collects ancient Greek texts of historical argument mainly made up of fragments;
  • Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum: data base collecting recently discovered Greek inscriptions.

BRILL - International Law Books Online

Keywords: Law

 The package covers the following subjects: Public International Law – Law of the Sea – International Trade Law – International Labour Law – Environmental Law – European Law – International Relations – International...

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Keywords: Law

  

DARWINBOOKS

Keywords: Multidisciplinary

  

DIGIBESS

Access: FREE

Keywords: Economics and Statistics, Geography, business and law

  

DICTIONARIES BY ZANICHELLI

Keywords: Dictionaries

Monolingual dictionaries:

  • Zingarelli: Dictionary of the Italian language
  • Grande Dizionario dei Sinonimi e dei Contrari
  • The Analogic Dictionary of the Italian language

General bilingual dictionaries:

  • Ragazzini: English-Italian, Italian-English Dictionary
  • Wow the Word on Words: English-Italian Dictionary of idioms and colloquial expressions
  • Boch: French-Italian, Italian-French Dictionary
  • Nuovo dizionario di Tedesco: German-Italian, Italian-German Dictionary
  • Grande dizionario di Spagnolo: Spanish-Italian, Italian-Spanish Dictionary
  • Kovalev : Russian-Italian, Italian-Russin Dictionary

Specialist bilingual dictionaries:

  • Medicina e Biologia: Medicine & Biology
  • Il nuovo Inglese Tecnico e Scientifico: Big English-Italian, Italian-English Dictionary of Scientific and technical terms
  • Economics & Business: English-Italian Encyclopedic Dictionary of Economics & Business with an Italian-English glossary
  • Encyclopedic Dictionary of Information Technology: English-Italian, Italian-English
  • L'Économie et les affaires: French-Italian, Italian-French Phraseological Dictionary of economic and business-related terms
  • Il Tedesco dell'economia: German-Italian, Italian-German Economic financial and commercial Dictionary

DOAB- DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS BOOKS

Access: FREE

Keywords: Multidisciplinary

  

EBSCO ACADEMIC eBOOK COLLECTION

Keywords: Multidisciplinary

  

ELSEVIR eBOOK

Keywords: Multidisciplinary

  

ELGAR

Keywords: Law

 Platform of the publisher Elgar that provides access to the eBook Law Collection (2021-2022) subscribed by the library.

EMERALD INSIGHT

Keywords: Multidisciplinary, Economics

  

EMORY WOMEN WRITERS RESOURCES PROJECT

Access: FREE

Keywords: Genre literature, serial novels, French literture, women's literature, women's issues, women's rights, native Americans' literature, English literature, Americtan literature.

Started in 1994 at the Emory University, EWWRP was originarily aimed at publishing on line texts of women's literature edited by under-graduate and post-graduate students. In the following years several sections have been added to the project, among which Genre fiction, a collections of more than 300 texts of English and American genre literature (detective stories, sentimental novels and serial stories) either written by women or concerning women's issues between 1860 and 1920. Among the other sections:

GUTENBERG <e>

Access: FREE

Keywords: Multidisciplinary

  

HART Publishing

Keywords: Law

 Platform of the publisher Hart that provides access to the eBook Law Collection (2021-2022) subscribed by the library.

HEINONLINE

Keywords: Law

  

IBFD

Keywords: Law, Taxation

 IBFD is the electronic platform for cross-border tax research of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation. The University of Turin subscribes the access to over 200 ebooks. In order to get them, select "Tax research Platform" on the upper bar, and then, in the following page, click on "Search". A full list of the subscribed materials is available under the tab "Books".

IMF eLibrary

Access: Library/Department

Keywords: Economics

  

MLOL - MEDIALIBRARY ONLINE

Keywords: Economics

MediaLibraryOnLine is the first network of Italian public libraries for digital lending. It provides access to more than 240 eBooks, a selection of monographs published by Egea, Sole 24 Ore, Laterza.

Each user can download a maximum of 2 eBooks every 15 days.

To access please log in with your SCU username and password and click on the unito.it button.

OECD iLibrary

Access: Library/Department/ BESS Consortium

Keywords: Economics, Social sciences

  

OPEN EDITION BOOKS

Access: FREE

Keywords: Humanities, Social sciences

  

OHO - OXFORD HANDBOOKS ONLINE

Keywords: Multidisciplinary

 Oxford Handbooks Online (OHO) is a digital platform that offers a number of handbooks written by eminent international scholars on a wide range of disciplines

OSAIL - OXFORD SCHOLARLY AUTHORITIES ON INTERNATIONAL LAW

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 SCOLARSHIP ONLINE

Keywords: Multidisciplinary

  

PANDORA CAMPUS (Il Mulino course and text books) 

Keywords: Politics and social scirences

 PandoraCampus is a platform for digital lending of course and text books published by Il Mulino.
  1. Register by selecting "Scegli il tuo accesso" in the yellow "Studenti", and then "registrati" (on the right, above): ignore Facebook, Google, Idem options and, instead, enter the email address used to log in in MyUnito; a mail for confirmationy will be sent to that address;
  2. Log in in Pandoracampus;
  3. View a list of the ebooks available for lending at https://www.pandoracampus.it/lending;
  4. click on "Richiedi prestito" and wait for confirmation;
  5. Get access to the book requested by clicking on "i miei libri" (on the right, above).

SPRINGER

Keywords: Economics and Statistics, Law
  • Mathematics & Statistics Collection including 500 eBook published in 2013
  • eBook Law  Criminology Collection 2019-2020-2021

TAYLOR & FRANCIS

Access: Library/Department

Keywords: Multidisciplinary

Platform that gives access to the ebook published by Taylor&Francis and acquired by the UniTo libraries. Around one hundred titles are currently available. They are mostly in Economics, Social Sciences.

  • eBook Collections: Law Handbook and Criminology Handbook 2020 - 2021

  • Political behavior & participation (EBA collection 2022)

  • Political Philosophy (EBA collection 2022)

  • Political theory (EBA collection 2022)

TORROSSA – EDITORI VARI

Access: Library/Department/ BESS Consortium

Keywords: Multidisciplinary

  

WESTLAW

Keywords: Law

  

WORLD BANK E-LIBRARY

Keywords: Economics, Politics

  

WORLD TOURISM ORGANIZATION - UNWTO e-library

Access: FREE

Keywords: Economics, Politics

COMPENDIUM OF TOURISM STATISTICS

Access: UniTo Network (*), remote access (IP recognition)

  

 
(*) UniTO Network includes all the PCs and thinclients of the University of Turin, as well as any device, such as laptops, tablets or smartphones, connected in-site through WiFi or remotely.