External Catalogues
A list of links to national and international catalogues to search outside of the Politecnico's resources
ACNP - Catalogo Italiano dei Periodici
The catalogue originates from the Archivio Collettivo Nazionale dei Periodici ('Italian National Archive of Periodicals') and contains bibliographic descriptions of the periodical publications owned by libraries right across the country, covering all subject areas.
Catalogo Nazionale Periodici Scienze Matematiche
This catalogue originates from the Archivio Collettivo Nazionale delle Pubblicazioni Periodiche ('Italian National Archive of Periodical Publications') of ISRDS. The interface allows users to find the desired information with ease and automatically request, by e-mail, copies of journal articles for scientific purposes only, or directly access the electronic publications.
ICCU - OPAC Indice Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale
This OPAC allows you to query the SBN Index and the catalogue of the libraries that form part of it.
A meta catalogue that queries the catalogues of libraries and bookstores around the world, for a total of more than 500 million titles. Its special feature is the ability to search across multiple catalogues simultaneously.
It is the biggest library in the world with over 128 million documents. It is followed by the British Library. Its collections include over 28 million catalogued books and other printed material in 470 languages; more than 50 million manuscripts; the biggest collection of legal material, films, maps, music scores and sound recordings in the world.
MAI - MetaOPAC Azalai Italiano
A MetaOPAC that allows you to consult the catalogues of the majority of Italian OPAC simultaneously.
The European Library offers free access to the resources of 47 National European Libraries. You can find all kinds of material here: original documents, text books, maps, photographs, music scores etc.