Disciplinary resources
Esper is a cooperative project between Italian libraries specialized in the field of economic and social sciences. Its online catalogs include the analysis of articles from Italian periodicals on social sciences, economics, law and history; Italian economics working papers; the collective catalog of periodicals; the Collective Catalog of Working Paper Series.
General web resources dedicated to history
JSTOR: (short for Journal Storage) is one digital library American founded in 1995. Originally created to preserve digitizations of past issues of academic periodicals, it now includes books, primary sources and current issues of periodicals, and allows you to search the entire text of more than a thousand publications.
WWW-VL History Project: having been created in 1993, it is the oldest catalog of historical resources on the web. It is managed by volunteers who manage the link lists according to the thematic areas in which they are experts. Inside there is also the WWW-VL Italian History Index
ELIOHS - Electronic Library of Historiography, offers in full version and in HTML format, classics of modern historiography, works of methodology and historiographical theory, erudition texts, travel literature from the 16th to the 20th century
The History Collection, contains digitizations of documents, books, maps, photographs and sound recordings by the University of Wisconsin
Bibliostoria - Blog of the Historical Sciences Library of the University of Milan, offers updated reports of resources and tools for historical studies
EuroDocs Online sources for European history
Latin Patrology Database - Electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina from 1884-85, contains all the texts of the Church Fathers from Tertullian to Pope Innocent III (1216)
Index Religiosus - Reference bibliographic repertoire for Theology, Religious Sciences and Church History. It includes more than 565,000 bibliographic entries; the initial collection is extracted from the bibliographies of the Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique and from the Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses; is enriched with 20,000 new bibliographic entries every year.
Update 10/30/2025
All the following electronic resources are accessible from the University network and from outside by setting the Unito proxy in the browser of your device (instructions for configuring the proxy: https://www.sba.unito.it/it/strumenti/accedi-da-casa)
The electronic resources and individual ebooks contained therein are also searchable and accessible via the discovery tool of the University Eureka (http://eureka.unito.it):
- n. 311 ebook from the publisher Viella, Dewey 900 class (history), up Torrossa platform by Casalini;
- collection of ebook History 2025 by publishers Taylor & Francis and Routledgede, according to the EBA model. This model provides online access and download for all ebooks in the collection for a period of one year, at the end of which a selection of ebooks will remain accessible and downloadable in perpetuity based on an internal evaluation. The new subscription is in addition to the existing one for the History 2023 and 2024 collections;
For information on all resources activated starting from 10/30/2025: click on theI notify
Review of IT Tools for the Study of Classical Antiquity, edited by Alessandro Cristofori, Giovanni Geraci and Carla Salvaterra
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook, an immense review of web resources curated by Fordham University in New York on the history of the ancient Middle East, the Greek, Hellenistic and Roman world
Dyabola
Bibliographic databases of archeology and history of the ancient world
The Dyabola project includes various bibliographic databases. The Library subscribes to the following:
Archaeological Bibliography
The most important database among those present: bibliography and thematic index of all publications owned by the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut of Rome, starting in 1956.
Since 2006, the DAI libraries in Athens, Istanbul and the head office in Berlin have participated in the enrichment of the database.
Frankfurt Catalogue, 1992-2011
Provides thematic access to the material (books and articles) acquired by Library of the Department for Pre- and Protohistory of Europe in Frankfurt, in the period 1992-2011.
DAI Madrid catalogue, 1991- 2002
Bibliography and thematic index of the material acquired by Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI) in Madrid in the period 1991-2002. The thematic index includes all aspects of the archeology of the Iberian Peninsula, with particular attention to Islamic and Jewish history.
Project Libellus, a collection of texts by Latin authors freely available on the web
Website Attica, represents an online complement to the Persons of Ancient Athens volumes
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Online edition of the 18 volumes "Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker" (Fragments of the Greek Historians) by FelixJacoby. Includes new comments and fragments not included in the FGrHist. English translation compared to the testimonies and Greek fragments.
Supplementum Epigraphicum graecum
Online version of the Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, a fundamental work for the study of Greek epigraphy. It includes the entire corpus of the 54 volumes of the SEG and is continuously updated. The text and critical apparatus are reported for each inscription, as well as readings, studies and new interpretations.
The site of the Italian archaeological mission in Hatra. The Italian Archaeological Mission in Hatra has decided to create this website to disseminate and share information relating to the important ancient center of Hatra from the 2nd-3rd AD.
Disciplinary database that collects bibliographical references of scientific literature on Egyptology with coverage from 1822 to the present.
Update 10/30/2025
All the following electronic resources are accessible from the University network and from outside by setting the Unito proxy in the browser of your device (instructions for configuring the proxy: https://www.sba.unito.it/it/strumenti/accedi-da-casa)
The electronic resources and individual ebooks contained therein are also searchable and accessible via the discovery tool of the University Eureka (http://eureka.unito.it):
- Loeb Classical Library: digital version of all the volumes of the editorial series of Greek and Latin classics, published by Harvard University Press;
- Encyclopaedia of Islam Online: digital version of the third edition of Brill's absolutely reference encyclopedia.
For information on all resources activated starting from 10/30/2025: click on theI notify
Monumenta Germaniae Historica: digitization of the MGH up to 2000 by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek of Munich and the Deutsche Forschungengemeinschaft.
Medieval Networks: studies and research carried out by a group of scholars belonging to various Italian universities.
The Labyrinth: Online resources for medieval studies indexed by Georgetown University.
Spolia: online magazine edited by professors from various Italian universities which aims to offer information on studies and research in the medieval field.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook, a review of web resources on the late Roman, Byzantine and medieval world. By Fordham University in New York.
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Online series of miscellaneous volumes published by Brepols since 1998 (so far approximately 500 volumes containing approximately 5,500 articles). The series will grow by 45 volumes per year, each chapter of which will be indexed and searchable individually (although research at monograph level is also possible). The digitized material includes thematic series, conference proceedings, commemorative collections of essays and exhibition catalogues. The historical period involved goes from 330 to 1550. Approximately two thirds of the contents are in English.
Bibliographic database of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It includes more than 1,200,000 citations of articles and essays obtained from the indexing of over 1,700 periodicals and 12,000 essays.
Mirabile - Digital archive of medieval culture
MIRABILE is the portal that collects the large databases and journals of the International Society for the Study of the Latin Middle Ages (SISMEL) and the Ezio Franceschini Foundation and, since the beginning of 2012, also important databases promoted by other bodies and research institutes. In addition to Middle Latin culture (MedioLatin database), MIRABILE now also finds space for that of the Romantic Middle Ages (Italian database, French database) and a specific section dedicated to hagiographic texts and manuscripts (hagiographic database).
Library of Contemporary History of Rome: a selection of websites on Contemporary History.
The Cold War International History Project: Cold War resources from the Wilson Center.
National Diary Archive of Pieve Santo Stefano (Arezzo): a very large repertoire of personal diaries collected from 1984 to today
Memoro: the memory bank: international project for the collection of oral historical testimonies in video and audio
National Institute for the history of the liberation movement in Italy: choice of online resources by the Institute
Internet Modern History Sourcebook, web resources on Modern and Contemporary History by Fordham University in New York
21st century history, a huge choice of online resources on the 20th century
CISRSM - Inter-university Center for Historical-Military Studies and Research - The Inter-university Center for Historical-Military Studies and Research was established in Italy in the early 1980s. It has therefore been active today for more than twenty years. It is the only university structure of national interest that deals with military history.
Update 10/30/2025
All the following electronic resources are accessible from the University network and from outside by setting the Unito proxy in the browser of your device (instructions for configuring the proxy: https://www.sba.unito.it/it/strumenti/accedi-da-casa)
The electronic resources and individual ebooks contained therein are also searchable and accessible via the discovery tool of the University Eureka (http://eureka.unito.it):
- Confidential Print Middle East by Adam Matthew Digital, collection of digitized documents taken from the British National Archives and relating to the history of the Middle East and North Africa;
For information on all resources activated starting from 10/30/2025: click on theI notify
Electronic version of the texts originally published by the Société des Bollandistes of Antwerp. Text search is possible. Subscription subscribed centrally by the University, access from the university network.
Art theorist of the Italian Renaissance
Contains the complete text of treatises on art and architecture published between 1470 and 1775 in the Italian and Latin languages (about 90 works and 4000 images), with word search.
On the site, edited by John Castagno, it is possible to view (and search) signatures, monograms and symbols of artists from all eras and in all alphabets. Free access, but subject to the registration of the scholar's data.
Artstor
Very rich database of images, photographs and reproductions of works of art from all times and all geographical areas. Ability to save searches and share them. Access from university computers.
BHA - Bibliography of the History of Art
Starting from April 2010, the Getty Institute has made the largest historical-artistic bibliographic database recorded up to 2008 available free of charge. For bibliography from 2008 onwards, the IBA paid database exists (see below)
IBA - International Bibliography of Art
Database of bibliographical references and abstracts relating to artistic literature documents published after 2008 or indexed by the Getty Institute (publisher) after that date, to complete the free BHA database (see above). Access from university computers.
ICA - Index of Medieval Art
Database on iconographic topics, formerly the Index of Christian Art, with the possibility of searching by keyword and viewing public domain images. In-depth content is paid.
KubiKat
Search (by words of the title or subject) in the catalog of the Kunsthistorisches Inst. (Florence), of the Zentralinst. für Kunstgeschichte (Munich) and the Bibl.Hertziana (Rome), as well as in the review of the magazines edited by these bodies. Free access.
Latin Patrology Database
Electronic version of the volumes originally published by J.-P. Migne. Text search is possible. Subscription subscribed centrally by the University, access from the university network.
The monographic publications of the Department of Historical Studies series are accessible and downloadable in PDF format starting from this page.
HISTORIKA Studies in Greek and Roman history
International Open Access Journal of Greek and Roman History
History magazine of the University of Turin
The «Rivista di Storia dell'Università di Torino» was born from the previous experience of the «Quaderni di Storia dell'Università di Torino», which were published in ten issues from 1996 to 2011, in the form of monographs.
Journal of Hellenic Law - Review of Hellenic Law
published in paper format only, Indexes and Abstracts available online