LibGuides: Italian 303: Writing on Language: Home

ONLINE LIBRARY CATALOGS

Five Colleges Libraries Catalog
Find books, journals, and media collections held by UMass Libraries and the Five Colleges.

WorldCat
The combined catalogs of most U.S. libraries.

Content is freely available for use by all.

Free, public WorldCat
Same database, but open access. Cannot be used for Interlibrary Loan; for that you must use the UMass WorldCat link.

OTHER RESOURCES

UMass Interlibrary Loan
RefWorks
A citation management service for storing and formatting bibliographic references.
Italian studies links
Library French & Italian resources page

Article databases

(Calvino, Buzzati)

MLA International Bibliography
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An index to journal articles and other scholarly literature on literature, literary theory and criticism, linguistics, folklore, and (since 1996) film, 1920s -

Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Academic Search Premier
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Scholarly journals from all academic disciplines - an excellent starting point for multidisciplinary research projects. 3,200 full-text journals. Coverage from 1975 to present.

Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Academic OneFile
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A large interdisciplinary collection of scholarly, professional and trade journal articles, 1980-present.

Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password
Historical Abstracts Full Text
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Journal articles, many in full text, and citations to books and dissertations on world history from 1450, published 1954-present.

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JSTOR
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Core scholarly journals from a range of disciplines, dating from the earliest issue of each journal to a few years before present.

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Film Literature Index
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Citations to articles appearing in popular and scholarly film periodicals journals from 130 countries, 1976-2001.

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ONLINE REFERENCE SOURCES

Literature Resource Center
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A large collection of literature reference material, including criticism and author biographies.

Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Literature Criticism Online
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Biographies and substantial excerpts from critical responses over time, on the works of a huge number of authors from classical time to the present.

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Literature Online Complete Collection
350,000 literary works in English: British and American poetry, drama and prose, plus some journals and literature reference sources.

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For full terms of use, please see the Electronic Resources Usage Policy (https://www.library.umass.edu/about-the-libraries/policies/electronic-resources-usage-policy/).
Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800
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Contains both early and modern critical interpretations of the greatest writers of the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Restoration. Part of Literature Criticism Online.

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Europa World
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Encyclopedia and directory of the world's countries. Substantive coverage of government, demographics, history, and much more. Current.

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EIU Country Reports Online
EIU, the research division of The Economist Group, publisher of the Economist Magazine, analyzes the current economic, political and market conditions in 200 countries. Each report includes a 12 -18 month macroeconomic forecast.

Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.

Countries & their cultures

Selected print reference materials

All materials are located in the Reference Collection, Main Floor of the Du Bois Library

Dictionary of Italian Literature PQ4006.D45 1996

Encyclopedia of Italian Literature Studies 2v. PQ4006.E536 2007

Oxford Companion to Italian Literature PQ4006.O84 2002

Cambridge History of Italian Literature PQ4038.C36 1999

Dizionario Critico della letteratura Italiana 4v. PQ4057.D59 1986

Dizionario Enciclopedico della Letteratura Italiana 6v. PQ4006.D5

Letteratura Italiana: Dizionario delle Opere 2v. PQ4006.L48 1999

Grande Dizionario Italiano Dell'Uso 6v. PC1625.D8 1999