Catalogues

Book catalogues

• Catalogue of the Central Library of Rimini Campus
  To see what the Library has on a subject, or by an author, or if it possesses a specific title. You can search by author, title, subject or classification code. CD-ROMs and DVDs are listed, as well as books.

• Catalogue of the Polo Bolognese
  This broadens the search to the whole range of documentation in all University, municipal and provincial Bolognese libraries. You can search by author, title, subject or classification code.
• Sbnubo

The new interface of the Polo Bolognese catalogue.

• Catalogue of the Polo Romagnolo
  Enables you to search the catalogues of the Romagna libraries.
• Cumulative catalogue of Italian libraries
  MAI (MetaOpac Azalai Italiano) lets you do cumulative research among the Italian library catalogues on the Internet.
• New subject index Florence National Central Library
  This serves when searching by subject and when verifying the terminology used in catalogues. It is used for subject indexing by the Florence National Library and the Italian National Bibliography.

• National Italian Catalogue (SBN Index)
  With this you can hunt through the catalogues of over 4,900 Italian libraries. You can search by author, title or subject. The Library catalogue, and the Polo Bolognese catalogue, belong to the National Library System (SBN).

Periodicals catalogues

• Italian catalogue of periodicals (ACNP)
  To check whether a periodical is in the library or somewhere in the University. It describes the periodicals possessed by University and CNR libraries, in hard copy and electronic format. It also describes the open-access scientific periodicals chosen by libraries.

Article catalogues

• DoGi archive for juridical research
  Enables subject search among Italian law periodicals.
• Analecta
  Selection of Italian Arts and social science periodicals made by a group of libraries in Emilia Romagna.
• CIB articles
  To search by subject among periodicals selected by Bologna University libraries.

• ESSPER Selection Italian economics and social science periodicals
  For a subject search among articles from periodicals of economics and social sciences.

 Other catalogues

• Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog
  The virtual catalogue of Karlsruhe University Library. From this one may consult library catalogues in German-speaking countries and a selection of national library catalogues all over the world.
• Library of congress
  Catalogue of the United States Library of Congress. 
• ScopriRete
  Personalizable access to the Polo Romagnolo catalogue; by logging in, one accesses the resources subscribed to: databanks, on-line dailies, downloadable MP3-format music.

Search engines

• Google Books
  Access platform to millions of digitalized books or publishers’ previews. Key-word searches in book texts.
• Google Scholar
  Index of academic articles available on line, either free-access or abstract only. It has a quotation count, links to articles quoted or quoting.
• Refseek
  Intended for students searching the academic and popularizing websites.
• WolframAlpha
  "A computational engine of knowledge" said its inventor, mathematician Stephen Wolfram. The engine answers queries on data available on line: for example, if you look up “Italy”, it gives a country file with the latest geographical, demographic and economic data.