Editoria Italiana Online - Italian Publishing Online

Over 600 research publications now available online

(PRWEB) November 7, 2003 --Casalini Libri Digital Division is pleased to announce the publication of the electronic editions of more than 500 books and 100 journals, in a wide range of disciplines, produced by some of Italy's most important publishers. This initiative, the first of its kind, represents a concrete opportunity for universities, libraries and research centres, both in Italy and abroad, to offer their academics and students access to the full-text of these titles via the Internet.

Participating publishers are: AIDA (Associazione Italiana Documentazione Avanzata); AIE (Associazione Italiana Editori); Cadmo; Casalini Libri; Cesati; CIM (Centro Italiano Manoscritti); CNBA (Coordinamento Nazionale Biblioteche di Architettura); École Française de Rome; Firenze University Press; Guerini e Associati; Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali; Name; Leo S. Olschki; Longo; Moxedano; Storia e Letteratura; Salerno and Vallecchi.

The material offered online comprises monographic works, conference proceedings and periodicals which deal with all the salient aspects of the humanities from a comparative viewpoint. Subjects areas include archaeology; history; classical philology; linguistics; comparative literature; Italian studies; music; philosophy; the arts; pedagogy; library sciences and social sciences.

Access, navigation, searching and full-text consultation are possible through Casalini's own Mercurio system, now available with an interface in English, German, Italian, French and Spanish.

This resource is available on annual subscription to one of three packages. For information regarding subscriptions beginning 2004 and full details of the complete service, please write to info@casalini.it.

Casalini Libri Digital Division also announces the latest edition of the Osservatorio - monitoring body for Italian electronic publishing - (http://digital.casalini.it/osservatorio). The aim of this unique resource is to offer consistent and coherent information on both monographs and periodicals resulting from Italian academic and commercial e-publishing initiatives.

For further information on all Editoria Italiana Online initiatives we invite you to visit http://eio.casalini.it. If you have any enquiries please contact Antonella Fabbrini, Director of Casalini Libri Digital Division (afabbrini@casalini.it, tel. + 39-055-5018-1, fax +39-055-5018-201).
Casalini Libri Digital Division, founded in January 2000 following a two-year pilot project, offers the very latest in electronic publishing services, applies the latest industry standards and works in collaboration with publishers from both Italy and abroad to create and distribute digital publications.

Casalini Libri S.p.A. has supplied books, periodicals and bibliographic services to institutions and national, public and university libraries throughout the world since its foundation by Mario Casalini at the end of the 1950s. The company works according to the quality control management system of the UNI EN ISO 9001:2000 system and has its main offices in Via Benedetto da Maiano 3, 50014 Fiesole (Florence), Italy.
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