Databases

This database contains topics under public discussion and combines PAIS Archive and PAIS International, offering titles from 1915 to the present. The sources include journal articles, books, government documents, statistical indexes, gray literature, research reports, conference papers, publications by international agencies, microfiches, and information material from the Internet. The database affords a broad look at public policies and social policies from several perspectives, ranging from Prohibition, the Civil Rights Movement, and the McCarthy era to current viewpoints on health, climate change, and terrorism.

Torrossa contains approximately 1,500 monographs and congress reports of well-known Italian science publishers. These e-books address significant aspects of the humanities and the social sciences from a comparative perspective in the fields of archeology, history, classical studies, linguistics, music, philosophy, art, pedagogy, library sciences, sociology, and the study of the language and literature of Italy. A full-text search is possible across all e-books.

Torrossa/Periodici contains 230 periodicals by prominent Italian science publishers in the humanities and social sciences. The national license extends to all available archive years through 2010.