Hellenic American University Library
The Hellenic American University Library supports learning, teaching and research at the University. The great majority of the University’s library resources are online, including 250,000 digital books and subscriptions to major academic periodicals databases numbering 10,000,000 articles. The digital collection covers all academic disciplines, but it is particularly strong in the areas of Business and Management, Languages and Linguistics, Education and Psychology.
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Online Resources
In this section you will also find a list of trusted, open access scientific databases.
Digital Books / Monographs
The American Library at Hellenic American University provides faculty and students with access to several collections:
- Digital book collections (over 300.000 e-books from two providers)
- Online periodicals databases (millions of e-articles)
- Videos (68,000 titles)
- 360 VR (Now over 170 Virtual reality videos)
- Direct subscriptions to on-line journals (access only at library’s premises and mostly in Applied Linguistics)
- Dissertations/Theses (more than 5 million entries)
Digital Books
Periodicals Databases - Videos - Dissertations/Theses
Emerald Management eJournal Portfolio
One of the largest multidisciplinary collections available, providing viewpoints on traditional management disciplines from a variety of different industries as well as reflections on newly emerging societal challenges like climate change, inequality, and conflict.
EBSCOhost includes:
- Academic Search Complete
- Business Source Complete
- Regional Business News
- ERIC
- European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
- GreenFILE
- International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text
- Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
- APA PsycArticles
- APA PsycInfo
- APA PsycTests
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
- SocINDEX with Full Text
- Teacher Reference Center
- OpenDissertations
- MLA Directory of Periodicals
- MLA International Bibliography with Full Text
- MEDLINE
ProQuest One Academic includes:
- Academic Video Online (Documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, and more).
360 VR (Οver 170 videos!) - ProQuest Central (1970 - current) Periodical databases across all major subject areas
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (From universities all over the world)
In this section you will also find a list of trusted, open access scientific databases.
- Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
- Science Direct * Journals (Arts & Humanities)
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) lists free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and languages.
- Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a worldwide collaborative of over 285,700 authors and more than 1.7 million users that is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research.
- Cogprints Leading electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics, and areas of computer science, philosophy, biology, the physical, social, and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition.
- SpringerOpen is Springer's portfolio of fully open access journals and books, covering all areas of science. The entire content published with SpringerOpen is freely accessible online immediately upon publication.
- Taylor & Francis Open and Routledge Open currently publish a number of pure open access journals. The articles in these journals receive rigorous peer review and expedited online publication. Authors have the option of publishing their open access article under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license, as mandated by some research funders.
- Wiley Open Access is a program of fully open access journals. All research articles published in Wiley Open Access journals are immediately freely available to read, download and share. The fully open access journals are published in collaboration with authoritative journals and societies as well as supported by internationally renowned editorial board members.
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Interlibrary Loan & Affiliations
The Library of Hellenic American University uses an Interlibrary Loan System to locate and obtain resources from libraries in the US and elsewhere. Resources that eligible users of the library may borrow through this system include articles, eBooks, dissertations, government documents and technical reports, all in electronic format.
Eligibility
Currently enrolled students, faculty, staff and alumni of Hellenic American University are eligible to request materials through Interlibrary Loan.
Procedures
1. To make an Interlibrary Loan request, first search our Databases to make sure that we don’t already have the material. We cannot process requests for items held locally.
2. Then fill out the appropriate form and email it to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
⇒ ILL Articles form
⇒ ILL Books form
3. You will need to make a separate request form for different items you are requesting, and provide complete and accurate information to avoid delays in processing.
4. An interlibrary loan electronic transaction is usually completed within 3-5 days
5. The library will notify you via email when the material has arrived and all material will be delivered electronically.
6. The library will also notify you if the material you have requested is not available.
Material Types
Electronic books and journal articles are the most commonly requested interlibrary loan materials. However, the following types of materials cannot be supplied through ILL:
- Archival materials
- Rare or valuable materials
- Films
- Reference books
- Conference papers
- Audiovisual materials (videos, DVDs, CDs)
Copyright
The Library adheres to the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, United States Code, Sections 107 and 108), CONTU Guidelines, the Greek copyright law 2121/1993 and European guidelines. The Library reserves the right to refuse to fill a request if, in its judgment, doing so would violate copyright law. As is the case with all other Library services, patrons are expected to comply with copyright laws when using materials obtained through the Interlibrary Loan System.
Charges and Fees
There is no charge for using the ILL service; however, you might need to pay handling fees charged by the lending library. In case there are any handling fees, you will be asked to confirm that you want the Library to proceed with the request.
Restrictions
The Interlibrary Loan System supports learning, teaching, research, and scholarship at Hellenic American University and is thus available only to students, faculty and staff at these institutions. The Library reserves the right to review patron requests for interlibrary loan services and to decline such requests at the Library’s sole discretion.
Affiliations
The Library is a member of: