This section allows you to browse the databases, digital collections, catalogues, websites, open access resources relevant to specific areas of study (cinema, photography, graphics, art, architecture, fashion, etc.).
The section is constantly updated, so that users can easily browse through the multitude of different pieces of information available on the network.
ADI
Industrial design association portal.
Ads of the World
Advertising Archive.
Architecture in Lombardy from 1945 to present day
Descriptive fact sheets, images, archive materials related to contemporary Lombard architecture from the post-war period to present today.
Archive of the Architect Cesare Leonardi
Architectural drawings, photographic compositions, wooden models, sculptures and all kinds of prototypes that testify to the life and work of the architect from Modena.
Archive of Italian Graphics
A collection dedicated to the Italian graphics heritage.
Carlo Scarpa Digital Archive
Resources regarding the knowledge, conservation and exploitation of the works of the Venetian architect.
Luce Archive
A vast heritage of films, photographic and documentary resources covering the entire 20th century.
Vico Magistretti Archive
Sketches, drawings, floor plans, project reports, patents, photographs, magazine articles, catalogues.
Contemporary Architecture Atlas
Topic based itineraries that host over one hundred works that testify to the excellence of Italian architectural culture in the late 20th century.
BEIC - European Library of Information and Culture
This digital library provides free access to a vast collection of some of the most important works of humanistic and scientific culture, with a time span running from the ancient world to the contemporary age.
Black Freedom struggle in the United States: a selection of primary sources (ProQuest)
This database contains documents from primary sources about the African-American struggle over the last 3 centuries.
Bloomsbury Collections (open access)
This contains nearly 11,000 open access contents on anthropology, film studies, media, politics, international relations, history and education.
Contemporary Architecture Database (by Industria delle Costruzioni)
Database on contemporary architecture.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
An extensive index of several open access journals from all over the world.
Docomomo Italia
The association's own portal that focuses on the documentation, conservation and exploitation of buildings and urban centres of the 20th century.
DPLA – Digital Public Library of America
A digital library that hosts the heritage of American libraries, archives, museums, and cultural sites.
Early European books (ProQuest)
This platform offers scholars new ways to access works printed in Europe before 1701 and preserved at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale (National Central Library) in Florence.
Europeana
This database includes images, texts, videos and music, provided by cultural institutions throughout Europe. It hosts individual collections on fashion, photography, sound, etc.
Fashion History Timeline
Lexical and iconographic database which is exceptionally useful for the history of fashion from ancient times to the present day.
Fashion, Textile & Costume Librarians (a blog by ARLIS/NA-Art Libraries Society of North America)
A space for sharing projects and ideas relevant to fashion, textiles and costume.
Google Scholar
A free search engine that contains a huge amount of academic scientific documentation.
Grafiche in Comune
Virtual Library of Graphics and Library Illustration of the Milan City Council.
IMDb - Internet Movie Database
A portal on upcoming films and the latest news from the cinema and TV series worlds.
International Journal of Design
An open-access peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing articles on industrial design, visual communication design, animation and game design, architectural design, urban design and many others.
Internet archive
Digital library offering universal access to books, films and music.
Internet Culturale
Digital catalogues and collections of Italian libraries.
Istituto centrale per i beni sonori e audiovisivi
Portal managed by the Central Institute for Sound and Audiovisual Heritage which has the task of documenting, enhancing and preserving the national sound and audiovisual heritage.
Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica
Portal managed by the National Institute of Graphics, which since 1975 has been preserving, enhancing, promoting and restoring collections of matrices, prints (drawings from the 16th to the 19th centuries), artist videos and photographs.
LensCulture
A resource on contemporary photography worldwide.
Mame fashion dictionary
The largest corpora in the fashion world with over 4,800 entries by stylists, fashion houses, enterprises, PR, journalists and fashion venues.
MetPublications (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
This portal includes thousands of art publications, including out of catalogue works, which can be read online or downloaded free of charge in pdf format.
Open Culture
Free superior quality training and culture.
OpenEdition
An electronic resource platform for human and social sciences.
Photographer’s identities Catalog
A collection of bibliographic data describing photographers, studios, producers and others involved in the production of photographic images.
Portale archivi della moda del Novecento
Products, drawings, sketches, photographs, administrative and accounting documentation, as well as biographies, theme-based itineraries, in-depth fact sheets, information on the history of 20th century fashion in Italy and around the world.
PROSPETTIVA Archivi
Curatorial space that houses the digitized archives of photographers Franco Bottino and Giovanni Gastel.
The Journal of Jewellery Research
A peer-reviewed, open-access online publication on jewellery design.
VADS – Virtual Arts Data Service
A collection of over 140,000 open-access images from around 300 art and design collections across the UK.
Vogue business
Publication offering a global perspective on the fashion industry.
Catalogues
ACNP - Italian Catalogue of Periodicals
The catalogue contains the bibliographic descriptions of periodical publications by libraries located throughout the country and covers all disciplinary fields.
BIASA Digital Italian periodicals
The catalogue contains 117 Italian periodicals published between the 18th century and the first decades of the 20th century for a total of 785,321 digitised images.
British Library
The catalogue comprises digital and printed resources, items from sound archives and collections of archived websites considered to be of particular interest.
Catalogo Biblioteche Regione Lombardia.
Catalogo on line Sistema bibliotecario di Milano.
CNBA – National Coordination of Architectural Libraries
Database of articles taken from periodicals on architecture, urban planning, construction and design.
Library of Congress
The catalogue contains over 20 million catalogue records for books, periodicals, images, recordings, maps, and manuscripts.
OPAC Libraries of Rome
Catalogue of the Library Institutes and Cultural Centres of Rome.
SBN – Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale
Collective catalogue of Italian libraries.
WorldCat
Bibliographic catalogue listing the collections of thousands of libraries from around the world.