ProQuest offers to the members of the University of Crete free trial access to the full version of the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global database.

ProQuest Dissertation & Theses Global (PQDT) is one of the largest interdisciplinary collections of postgraduate and doctoral dissertations from around the world. It contains more than 6 million entries, of which 3,6 million are full text, and is enriched with more than 300.000 works each year.

 Access is possible through the link:

 https://www.proquest.com/pqdtglobal?accountid=17198

The trial access period will last until August 17, 2026.

JULY - AUGUST

Monday - Friday: 09:00-15:30
Saturday: Closed

Circulation desk: 09:00-15:15

13  - 23 August: CLOSED

From Monday, July 6, 2026 to Wednesday, August 12, 2026: 08:30–15:00

Saturday: Closed

From Thursday, August 13, 2026 to Friday, August 21, 2026: Closed

From Monday, August 24, 2026, the Library will ll be open again from: Monday–Friday 08:30–20:00 and Saturday 09:00–15:00.

22 - 23 December -->  09:00 – 15:30

24 - 28 December --> CLOSED

29 - 30 December --> 09:00 - 15:30

31 December, 1 - 6 January --> CLOSED

Back to the regular opening hours Wednesday 7th January 2025

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Live presentation of the JoVE scientific video platform for research and education

on Friday 9 May 2025 at 12:30-14:30 at the electronic reading room of the University of Crete Library in Heraklion (Voutes).

For those who intend to attend, please send your details to kovaiou_at_uoc.gr.

For those unable to attend, remote viewing is available via the link: 

https://uoc-gr.zoom.us/j/85229768294

We inform you that the UOC Library will have free trial access to ProQuest Central until 16 March 2025.

For more information click here.

At the same time, our community users can access SCITECH premium

https://www.jove.com/

The University of Crete has activated an institutional subscription to JoVE Unlimited, which allows access to all content published in the multidisciplinary video resource JoVE, (JoVE Journal, JoVE Research, JoVE Education, JoVE Core, JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments, JoVE Science Education, JoVE Lab Manual, JoVE Book).It includes more than 18,000 videos and more than 2,400 news items published every year with content related to:

Biology - Biotechnology - Biochemistry - Genetics - Cancer research - Medicine - Clinical skills - Social psychology - Cell biology - Cell biology - Engineering - Mechanical engineering - Molecular biology - Neuroscience - Nursing - Organic chemistry - Statistics - Pharmacology - Physics - Chemistry - Psychology.

To watch the videos from any location you can simply create an account www.jove.com/account using your university email and log in.

The University Library will be open during Christmas holidays:

December 27 - 29     08:30 - 15:00

January 03 - 04        08:30 - 15:00

Closed: December 22 - 26,  30 december - 2 January and 5-7 January

From Monday 8th of January: back to the regular opening hours

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!