Subject guide: Italian

Resources for finding books and articles

• Access Torrossa 
  Database including Italian ebooks and the journal Francofonia.

• ERIC
  ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is a database of education research and information.

• Google Scholar 
  NB The search service contains not only scholarly literature but also many non-scholarly sources and dishonest journals. Consequently, you should check that sources are scholarly and that articles are not from blacklisted journals in Cabells – Predatory Reports. To get access to full-text articles in the library’s journal subcriptions, you must activate a library link (See Activate library links in Google Scholar).

• Liber Liber
  Literature in full text.

• Linguistics Collection
  Database collection for literature on linguistics and language-related disciplines. The collection searches simultaneously in the databases Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts and Linguistics Database.

• MLA International Bibliography
  Database for literature on linguistics and literary research.

• SBN (Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale) 
  National catalogue for Italian libraries. Good resource for finding books.

• Summon
  In this search service you find the library's printed books, e-books and journal articles. You also find books and articles that are not part of the library's collection.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

• Britannica Academic
  The database includes Encyclopædia Britannica and Merriam-Webster (dictionary & thesaurus).

• Dizionario Combinatorio Italiano

• Dizionario Etimologico

• Enciclopedia dell'italiano : il vocabolario Treccano (2 vol.)
  Printed version available on shelf Fi(x) in the library.

• Grande dizionari della lingua italiana (flerbandsverk)
  Printed version available on shelf Fi(x) in the library.

• Letteratura Italiana (flerbandsverk)
  Printed version available on shelf Gi(x) in the library.

• Il Sansoni Inglesi
  English-Italian / Italian-English dictionary.

• Sapere
  Fritt tillgängligt italienskt uppslagsverk.

• Treccani (vocabolario)
  Italian dictionary.

• Treccani (sinonimi)
  Italian synonym dictionary.

      More Italian dictionaries available on shelf Fi(x) in the library.

Resources for finding student theses

• DiVA
  Find full-text theses and other scholarly works submitted at Högskolan Dalarna.

• Essays.se
  Search for full-text theses submitted at Swedish universities.

More resources 

• Amazon.it
  Italian online bookshop.

• Internet Bookshop Italia
  Italian online bookshop.

• Italian Studies
  Web sources for Italian studies.

• Unilibro
  Italian online bookshop.