George Ferzoco wrote: >Dear colleagues, >our University Librarian has asked me for suggestions regarding purchases he might >make in the area of electronic resources for Italian studies. In my ignorance, I turn to >you; are there, for example, Italian newspapers on CD-ROM? Any serial >bibliographies? Encyclopedias? Any and all suggestions are welcome! I may suggest: 1) Dictionaries: Lo Zingarelli 1998 in Cd-rom - Zanichelli [Monolingual Italian dictionary] Il Gabrielli in Cd-rom - Elemond [Monolingual Italian dictionary] Il DIR in Cd-rom - D'Anna [Monolingual Italian dictionary] Disc - Dizionario Italiano Sabatini Coletti - Giunti [Monolingual Italian dictionary] Il Castiglioni-Mariotti in Cd-rom - Loescher [Latin - Italian dictionary] Il Ragazzini 3° edizione in Cd-rom - Zanichelli [English - Italian dictionary; summer 1998] Il Boch 3° edizione in Cd-rom - Zanichelli [French - Italian dictionary; summer 1998] Il Marolli in Cd-rom - Hoepli [Technical English-Italian dictionary] Medicina e biologia in Cd- rom - Zanichelli [Medical and biological English-Italian dictionary] 2) Encyclopedias Enciclopedia Zanichelli 1998 in Cd-rom - Zanichelli - Opera multimedia Omnia 1998 - Enciclopedia in Cd-rom - De Agostini Enciclopedia Rizzoli 1998 in Cd-rom - Rizzoli Encharta - edizione italiana - Microsoft 3) Newspapers: Both Il Corriere della Sera and La Stampa published several cd-roms containing the full text of single years; a cd-rom of the magazine L'Indice is also available 4) And -- of course -- for Italian literature: LIZ 3.0 - Letteratura Italiana Zanichelli - New edition for Windows - Zanichelli [770 full texts from Francesco d'Assisi to Pirandello and D'Annunzio with an engine for searching single words or for Boolean search] The addresses of www sites of Italian publishers may be found at <www.alice.it/publish/net.pub/elencalf.htm> Lorenzo Enriques Redazioni Lessicografiche Zanichelli editore <[log in to unmask]> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%