Subject guides: Italian Studies: Books

How do I access my reading lists?

You can access your course reading lists in Blackboard. Log in via MyManchester, then click the ‘Reading Lists Online’ link in the left-hand menu to see your lists, or use the link below:

Locating and Borrowing Books

Find help and support with all aspects of locating and borrowing resources .

Humanities e-books

You can find e-books by accessing Library Search or by using the links below:

Academic Library
The service provides full-text access to a large collection of books in a range of subject areas including geography, sustainable development and development studies.
ACLS Humanities E-Book
The ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) provides access to the full text of over 2,000 humanities titles.
Cambridge Companions Complete Collection
Cambridge Companions are collections of specially commissioned essays, which provide a systematic critical account of major writers, artists, philosophers, topics and periods.
Cambridge Histories Online
Cambridge Histories Online provides access to over 260 volumes published since 1960.
Early English Books Online
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). Among the thousands of titles featured in EEBO are works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo; musical exercises by Henry Purcell and novels by Aphra Behn; prayer books, pamphlets, proclamations, almanacs, calendars and many other primary sources.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
The Eighteenth Century Collections Online provides access to over 180,000 titles published during the 18th Century including books, pamphlets, essays and broadsides.
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Subject coverage includes history, geography, literature, religion, law, fine arts, medicine, science and technology. Full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages included in the databases is possible.
Oxford Classical Dictionary
The Oxford Classical Dictionary is a reference work covering all aspects of the Graeco-Roman world. The Dictionary provides coverage of Greek and Roman history, literature, myth, religion, linguistics, philosophy, law, science, art and archaeology, and topics in near eastern studies and late antiquity
Oxford Scholarship online
The Library subscription provides access to the full-text of some of the books in the following subject collections:
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Economics and FinanceHistoryLawLinguisticsPhilosophyPolitical SciencePublic Health and EpidemiologyReligion
Oxford Bibliographies Online
Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) helps researchers quickly find reliable sources of information by directing them to specific chapters, books, websites, archives, or data. OBO is a springboard for new research that allows for quick movement between texts and databases within our subscribed library content and beyond. It is a starting point for organising a research plan, or for preparing a writing assignment or syllabus. The style and approach is accessible to students, and the depth of coverage makes it of great use to academic staff.
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OBO is a library of disciplined-based subject modules. In each subject module, leading scholars have produced a guide to the most significant sources in an area of study they know best. The guides feature a selective list of bibliographic citations supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult. Each topic has an editorial commentary to show how the cited sources are interrelated. The citations promote discoverability as they link out to the sources via your library collection or through Google books and more.

General e-books

You can find e-books by searching the Library Search or by using the links below:

EBSCOhost ebooks
Includes full text access to over 6,000 books plus over 340 publicly accessible e-books in a range of subject areas.
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It is possible to search the entire collection or to search within a specific title. The publishers represented include Blackwells, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Institute of Physics, Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, McGraw-Hill and Wiley. All titles included in the subscription are listed in the Library Catalogue.
E-Book Central: ProQuest
The E-Book Central service provides access to e-books purchased on the ProQuest platform. The books are also listed on Library Search.
Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online provides access to over 120 reference works covering all subject areas
Science Direct
Includes access to a wide range of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, Health Sciences and Social Sciences and Humanties e-books.
Springer ebook collection
The Springer ebook collection includes access to over 6,500 books published since the 1980's. These titles are also included in Library Search.

Printed books, e-books and theses

New book titles

The following titles reflect the most recent textbooks purchased by the University of Manchester Library for your studies and research.

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Guide to printed stock

Books relevant to Italian language and literature are shelved mostly on Blue 3 at classification (subject) numbers 450-459 and 850-859. The following are the most useful numbers:

Classification numbers of books in the Italian Studies collections


Classification Number	Subject
450	Italian language in general
450.7	Study and teaching of Italian
450.9	History of Italian
453	Italian dictionaries and encyclopaedias
453.2	Italian-English dictionaries
457	Italian dialects
458	Italian textbooks
850	Italian literature
B450	Bibliography of Italian language
B850	Bibliography of Italian literature
851	Italian poetry
852	Italian drama
853	Italian fiction
854	Italian literary Essays
857	Italian satire
858	Italian literary miscellany

Classification numbers and locations for other relevant texts concerning Italy


Subject	Classification Number	Location
Italian philosophy	109.45	Blue 3
Italian church history	274.5	Blue 3
Social and economic history of Italy	309.45	Blue 2
Italian political theory	320.945	Blue 2
Italian art (general)	709.45	Blue 4
Italian painting	750.45	Blue 4
Italian public administration	350.945	Blue 2
History of Italian civilization	901.45	Blue 3
Geography of Italy	914.5	Blue 3
History of Italy (general)	945	Blue 3
History of Italy, 1300-1492	945.05	Blue 3
History of Italy, 1492-1527	945.06	Blue 3
History of Italy, 1527-1796	945.07	Blue 3
History of Italy, 1796-1870	945.08	Blue 3
History of Italy, 1870	945.09	Blue 3
Cinema	791.4	Blue 4
Theatre

Inter-Library Loans service

The University of Manchester Library is one of the largest subscribers to e-journals and databases in the UK but we don’t have access to everything.

If you find that we don’t hold a book, report, journal article or conference paper that you need, you can use our Inter-Library Loans service .

How to find and access theses?

You can find further information on theses held at the University of Manchester and elsewhere on our theses guide.

Doctoral/Research Theses

Electronic versions of many open-access University of Manchester research theses, submitted from the 2010 session onwards, are available on Pure, the University of Manchester’s internal repository.

EThOS (e-theses online service)
EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses. EThOS aims to provide a national aggregated record of all doctoral theses awarded by UK Higher Education institutions and free access to the full text of as many theses as possible for use by all researchers. There are approximately 440,000 records relating to theses awarded by over 120 institutions of which around 160,000 are available as full text. Requests for many of the remainder can be ordered for scanning through the EThOS digitisation-on-demand facility. You can download digitised PhD thesis from across the UK for free once you have registered on the website. Records are held for all UK PhD-awarding institutions, but EThOS does not yet hold all records for all institutions. This is constantly updated as more theses including University of Manchester outputs from March 2013 are submitted solely in electronic form.
ProQuest dissertations & theses global
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content.
University of Manchester theses
Details of University of Manchester Phd theses can be found on the library website.
Web of Science Conference Proceedings
Index to published proceedings for international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops and conventions across a wide range of disciplines.
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Proceedings relating to Business and Management can be found in the Social Sciences Proceedings on the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Science tab.

Using Google Books

It is worthwhile carrying out a search on Google Books to see if a book is available to view online.

If you have a reading list for your course and the books are in use by other students, you can check to see if it has been fully or partially digitised by Google.