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AIDA (Bureau van Dijk database)
Description: Database with financial data and software for the immediate analysis of Italian companies. Aida allows the search, consultation, analysis and processing of economic-financial, master data and commercial information of all joint-stock companies operating in Italy. All data are indexed to facilitate search and comparison functions and are also available in original format.
Contents: For each company, the detailed balance sheet according to the complete scheme of the 4th EEC Directive, the historical series up to 10 years, the master data sheet complete with description of the activity carried out and the optical balance sheet are available. Information such as business sector and product codes, number of employees, shareholders and shareholdings, representatives and managers, default probability, rating and credit score, sector reports, news and extraordinary finance operations are available in Aida. The BvD research and analysis software allows you to calculate sector averages, perform comparisons, statistical analyses, implement customised rating and scoring systems and export data in any format.
Access procedure: contact (first time only) bibli.risorse_elettroniche@polito.it. The credentials provided are valid for both Bureau van Dijk databases (Aida and Orbis).
Arcanum Digitheca
Description: Arcanum Digitheca is the most important collection of digitalised documents on the history of Hungary.
Contents: journals, encyclopaedias, books and newspapers.
Art & Architecture Archive
Description: A full-text archive of journals including key research material in the field of art and architecture, spanning the late 19th century to the 21st century. Topics include fine arts, decorative arts, architecture, interior design, industrial design and photography.
You can access:
- AAA: Architecture & Design
- AAA: Art & Photography
Coverage: 1860-2015
Art and Architecture Source
Description: Art related database.
Contents: “Art and Architecture Source” is the result of the merger of “Art full text” with “Art Index retrospective 1929-1984” and with “Art and Architecture complete”, plus another 100 full text titles not found in other databases.
There are more than 2,400 full text journals, 230 e-books and 63,000 images.
Coverage: Full text since 1974; bibliographic records since 1929.
Art, Design & Architecture Collection
Description: Comprehensive overview of current publications in the field of visual and applied arts.
Contents: This collection includes the specialised indexes ARTbibliographies Modern – ABM - (modern and contemporary art), Design and Applied Arts Index – DAAI - (design and applied arts), International Bibliography of Art – IBA - (culture and history of western art), and finally Arts and Humanity database, (complementary collection of current full-text journals).
ARTSTOR Digital Library
Description: database of images related to the disciplines of art, architecture, humanities.
Contents: The database offers access to a collection of 2.5 million images divided into 300 collections and continuously updated. Images from collections of museums, archives, private collections such as MOMA, the Louvre, the Bodleian Library of Oxford University, the Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and the Magnum Photos agency are enriched with descriptions and metadata.
ASTM Compass
Description: database including standards and publications (journals and e-books) of the American Society for Testing Materials.
Contents: more than 12,500 standards, 123,000 pages of articles published in ASTM journals, 1,500 e-books, 29,000 technical reports and conference proceedings.
Coverage: the entire database is available.
Avery Index
Bibliographic database relating to the disciplines of architecture, design, urban planning, art, archaeology.
Contents: 800,000 bibliographic records of articles in more than 700 international journals, the original core of which is held by the Avery Architectural and fine Arts Library of Columbia University.
Coverage: 1934 to date.
British Standards Online: EN, ISO and BSI standards online on the BSOL platform
Description:- EN standards, published by CEN and CENELEC, adopted by BSI (100% of ENs are adopted by BSI) - ISO standards adopted by BSI (94% of pure ISOs are adopted by BSI) - BSI native standards
Contents: The subscription includes both current and non-current regulations.
The standards may be viewed, printed and downloaded within the limits of the terms of use.
Use of the standards is for study and research purposes only. It is forbidden to make any use other than institutional use or to provide the standards to unauthorised third parties.
Building types online
Description: the database includes an extensive international collection of contemporary buildings: housing, offices, museums, schools, libraries, industrial complexes.
Contents: more than 850 buildings; each is illustrated with technical drawings, plans, photographs and articles.
CCDC-CSD
Descrizione: La banca dati CCDC-CSD (Cambridge Structural Database), contiene oltre 850.000 strutture cristalline di composti organici e metallorganici. Il database offre una copertura completa della letteratura pubblicata.
Procedura per l’accesso: è possibile utilizzare la banca dati in due modalità: una versione web, più limitata, ed una versione con installazione del client CSD Entreprise, che offre maggiori funzionalità. Per una completa installazione occorrono circa 17 Gb di spazio su disco. Per il download dei file da installare è necessario richiedere i codici (Customer Number e Activation Key) all’indirizzo bibli.risorse_elettroniche@polito.it. Nella mail, oltre a nome e cognome, va indicata la struttura di appartenenza. Saranno accettate esclusivamente richieste provenienti da account istituzionali (@polito.it ) I codici da utilizzare per il download sono strettamente personali e non possono essere ceduti a terzi.
Procedura per il download CSD Enerprise: collegarsi alla pagina https://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/support-and-resources/csdsdownloads/ riempire i campi con l’indirizzo mail istituzionale e le informazioni richieste al Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneo. Si riceveranno al proprio indirizzo mail i link per il download. La prima volta che viene lanciato un componente del CSD viene chiesta la registrazione on line dell’utente: il Customer Number e l’Activation Key richiesti sono gli stessi utilizzati per il download.
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DAAI
Description: Bibliographic database covering the disciplines of industrial design, automotive design, glass design, jewellery, metalworking, fashion, textile design.
Contents: 225,699 records, includes 4 other databases with over 50,000 records of designers, firms, studios, organisations and associations, schools.
Coverage: 1973 to date.
Iconda
Description: Bibliographic database relating to the disciplines of construction science, civil engineering, architecture and urban planning.
Contents: 900,000 records of journals and monographs, conference proceedings and grey literature in general.
Coverage: 1900 to date.
International Bibliography of Art (IBA)
Description: Bibliographic database related to the disciplines of art and architecture.
Contents: The publications covered include at least 500 leading journals plus detailed coverage of monographs, collections of essays, conference proceedings and exhibition catalogues.
Coverage: European art from antiquity to the present, American art from the colonial period to date, world art from 1945 to date.
Journal Citation Reports
Description: Database with Impact Factor and journal citation data. Related to the disciplines of exact sciences and social sciences.
Contents:
- JCR Science Edition
- JCR Social Science Edition
The Laws of Italy
Description: Legal database.
Contents: Italian laws, practice and jurisprudence. A continuously updated collection of e-books is available in “My Library”.
MathSciNet
Description: Bibliographic database on mathematics produced by the American Mathematical Society.
Contents: Corresponds to the printed bibliographic publications “Mathematical Reviews” and “Current Mathematical Publications”.
Coverage: 1940 to date.
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Description: Database offering studies and analyses mainly in the fields of macroeconomics, political economy, labour, health and energy policies, econometrics and statistics.
Contents: The entire section of “Working papers”, working documents that have not yet undergone the review of official publications and are intended to make the results of NBER research available to other economists in preliminary form.
Orbis (database Bureau van Dijk)
Description: Orbis is the largest database available with data on global companies. It is the most comprehensive resource of comparable data on listed and unlisted companies worldwide.
Contents: Has information on over 400 million companies and entities worldwide - including 40 million with detailed financial information. It collects data from over 170 international information providers and hundreds of other in-house sources. One can use Orbis to identify, analyse and compare companies to optimise decision-making processes.
Access procedure: contact (first time only) bibli.risorse_elettroniche@polito.it. The credentials provided are valid for both Bureau van Dijk databases (Aida and Orbis).
Orbit Express
Description: Questel Database. Orbit Express is an application for engineers, researchers and managers who wish to quickly and easily obtain information in their technical field: patents and scientific and technical publications.
Access procedure: for the creation of a dedicated account, contact (only the first time) the reference resource of the University’s Corporate Relations and Valorisation of Research Department: brevetti.spinoff@polito.it. By providing a university email (with domain: @polito.it or @studenti.polito.it) an email will be sent that will allow the creation of a personal account to access the Orbit Express database
PROQUEST Databases
Description: Bibliographic databases focusing on art, architecture, design, urban planning, archaeology, industrial design, automotive design, glass design, jewellery, metalwork, fashion, textile design, sociology and educational science.
Contents: Art, Design & Architecture Collection; Art & Architecture Archive; ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM); Arts & Humanities Database; International Bibliography of Art (IBA); Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals; Design & Applied Arts Index (DAAI); Ebook Central; ERIC; The Harper's Bazaar Archive; International Bibliography of Art (IBA); ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global; PTSDpubs; Sociological Abstracts; Sociology Collection; The Vogue Archive; The Vogue Italia Archive; AAA Art Photography e AAA Architecture & Design; Early European Books BNCF Collection; Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection) currently on subscription. From the link below, all databases can be consulted simultaneously.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
Description: the world’s most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from all over the world, from 1743 to the present day.
Contents: Offers the complete fulltext for postgraduate work since 1997, together with fulltexts of selected works written before 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citation and fulltext. It covers the fields of health and medicine to science and technology, through history, literature, arts and social sciences.
SCIVAL
Description:
Elsevier’s SciVal offers quick and easy access to research data from 8,500 institutions and 220 countries worldwide.
Authentication is required to access SciVal. You can create a user on the platform, which expires after six months, or, the recommended method, follow the Sign in via your institution and use your university credentials.
Scopus
Description: Bibliographic citation database covering the disciplines of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, humanities.
Contents: Includes 18,000 titles of peer reviewed journals with a total of 54 million records. Citation data since 1996. Coverage since 1823.
Sociology Source Ultimate
Description: Database offering full-text and peer-reviewed journals in sociology for students studying aspects of human interaction and behaviour. Includes many titles indexed in major citation services, as well as hundreds of full-text academic journals cited in major subject indexes; extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers, and other non-journal content sources; and more than 26,000 author profiles of experts in their field covering the most cited and influential authors in the database.
Contents: over 5570 records, including:
- 1.072 journals and newspapers in full text
- 1.009 peer-reviewed journals in full text
- 612 journals in full text without embargo
- 601 full-text journals indexed in Web of Science or Scopus
Statista
Description: database of statistics, providing data and studies on more than 80,000 topics and areas of interest.
The Harper's Bazaar Archive
Description: A searchable archive of US (1867 to present) and UK (1930-2015) editions of Harper’s Bazaar.
Coverage: 1867 - to date.
The Vogue Archive
Description: A searchable archive of Vogue America, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution colour page images.
The Vogue Italia Archive
Description: A digital archive of Vogue Italia - one of the most influential and renowned international editions of Vogue - from its launch in 1964 to the present day.
Urbadoc
Description: Bibliographic database relating to the disciplines of urban planning, architecture, construction, habitat, infrastructure.
Contents: Includes 5 databases, which can also be consulted individually:
- Docet (IT)
- Acompline & Urbaline (UK)
- Orlis (RFD)
- Urbamet (FR)
- Urbaterr (ES).
Web of science
Description: Bibliographic database with citations and full-text access to subscription resources. Related to the disciplines of exact and applied sciences, social sciences, humanities.
Contents:
- Science Citation Index Expanded (accesso dal 1970)
- Social Sciences Citation Index (accesso dal 1970)
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index (accesso dal 1975)