The success of the
international conference, “Italian studies periodicals
in the world”, sponsored by “Esperienze letterarie”
and held in Naples in November 2000, confirmed the deep
and growing scholarly interest in specialist academic
periodicals. Such publications have long represented
one of the most effective means for intellectual and
cultural exchange. The conference in Naples offered
the opportunity, arising from the increased number of
journals of Italian studies, of developing two closely
inter-related initiatives:
1) An
easily accessible, international diffusion of the contents
of periodicals which respects the specific features
and bibliographical unity of each journal;
2) A
user-friendly and multi-structured point of access to
the contents of the periodicals.
The ITALINEMO (italianistica
nel mondo) project was established to facilitate the
implementation of both initiatives. The website presents
a regularly updated bibliographical database, which
allows the retrieval of bibliographical records collected,
since 2000, from a large (and growing) number of Italian
and international journals. The selected periodicals
focus on Italian literary and cultural studies.
ITALINEMO’S STRUCTURE
In general terms, ITALINEMO
consists of two interrelated elements:
- An analytical
presentation of each issue of the selected journals:
The
selected periodicals have been assigned to a large
group of collaborators,
whose task is to analyse each issue in order to
gather pre-established data which is to be placed
in a project-specific database. Thanks both to the
collaborators’ analyses and to the software, the
presentation of each issue, based on an accurate
reconstruction of its main characteristics, is further
enriched by a concise abstract of each article.
These elements will facilitate searches. They also
constitute an organic collection of periodicals,
in which each journal is represented by the material
gathered from the issues published since 2000, as
well as by a brief profile accompanied by a reproduction
of its cover.
- A database.
The
database allows the contents of the site to
be searched on the basis of the journals’ bibliographical
features. It is also possible to perform both simple
and advanced searches by the name of the author
of articles and reviews, by the name of the author
of reviewed books and studies, by the title of the
journal, by the words contained in the titles of
articles, by keywords, and by the year of publication
of both articles and books presented in the
website.
In addition, the website
includes:
- Pages
presenting brief bio-bibliographical profiles of
the ITALINEMO research
group;
- Pages
containing different sets of data
and figures gathered from the analysed information,
allowing the verification of the total number of
records contained in the site, the total number
of periodicals, the number of records connected
with each journal, the most frequent searches, and
the last 20 searches performed by users;
- Information
(conferences, seminars, publications, etc.) provided
by the website’s visitors and sent to the following
address: notizie@italinemo.it.
Traduzione a cura di
Lia Gasbarra
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