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The joint URBS database includes the holdings of the individual Libraries specializing in the humanities: archaeology, history, history of art and architecture, philology, patristics, law, pedagogy and sociology.
The catalogue is accessible via an OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) which includes a bilingual authority file (English/Italian) for names and subjects. Bibliographic records are available not only for monographs and periodicals but also for photographs, prints, musical scores and recordings, and electronic resources.

Materials
Periodicals  Entries for individual articles have been made for the following periodicals:
- Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe lettere e filosofia (1974 on )
- Anzeiger der Phil.-hist. Klasse der Österr. Akademie der Wissenschaften (latest series)
- Archivio Storico per Trieste, Istria e il Trentino
- Austriaca
- Bollettino - Monumenti, musei e gallerie pontificie
- Cristianesimo nella storia
- Modern Austrian Literature
- Opuscula Romana
- Papers of the British School at Rome (complete from vol. 1)
- Quaderni medievali
- Risorgimento
- Römische Historische Mitteilungen
- Römisches Österreich
- Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Rom

Photographs
 Currently being catalogued and digitized:
The Photographic Archive of the American Academy in Rome holds valuable and specialized collections of photographs on archaeology, architecture and art, landscape architecture and gardens. These works are also important for the history of photography, as they document the activity of photographers and scholars from the second half of the 19th century (Parker) through the 20th century (Moscioni, Van Deman, Askew, Masson and Bini). Special collections include the Berman collection of stage and costume design and the Fellows' Work collection, which documents the individual and collaborative projects of Fellows and Visitors in the School of Fine Arts at the American Academy in Rome, 1910-1958. In addition to its own collections, the American Academy also houses the Fototeca Unione, founded by Ernest Nash and donated to the Unione Internazionale degli Istituti di Archeologia, Storia e Storia dell’Arte in 1957. The Photographic Archive continues to grow, particularly in the areas of Roman archaeology and topography.

The Photographic Archive of the British School at Rome holds collections of unique historical photographs which total over 120,000 prints and negatives (for details see www.bsrome.it). These include calotypes, glass-plate negatives, film negatives (nitrate and cellulose acetate), photographic prints (albumen, aristotypes and silver-gelatin paper prints), historic postcards, cardboard-mounted slides and lantern slides. The collections include photographs of archaeological sites and the topography of Italy and North Africa; Greek and Roman art (especially ancient sculpture); European art and architecture from the Medieval and Renaissance periods. The Photographic Archive completed a three-year project (2002-2005), funded by The Getty Foundation, for the cataloguing of three collections: Thomas Ashby, Dora and Agnes Bulwer and Rev P.P. Mackey. Thanks to this project it is now possible to consult the catalogue records and the images on the URBS catalogue.

Music collections
 Are found at:
- Istituto Storico Austriaco
Scores: ca. 640, CDs and other recordings: ca. 390
- American Academy in Rome
Books on the history of music, including the library of W. Oliver Strunk. Musical scores, especially those of American composers (Fellows in Musical Composition), 1921 to the present. Recordings of Academy concerts, 1955 to the present.
- Accademia di Danimarca:
Danish music (scores, books, and CDs), most of which are part of a donation from the Augustinusfonden.