Since 5th of October 2020 the University Library continues to serve only for borrowing material (by appointment) and returning material  the members of the Institution.

OPENING HOURS:

The opening hours for borrowing and returning material are 09.00 – 17.00, from Monday to Friday, 09.00 – 15.00, on Saturday.

 SPECIAL FUNCTION CONDITIONS:

The Library will serve all the members of the academic community.

The users are not  permitted  to stay in the Library building ( the studying areas and all the service points will remain closed for the Library public) apart from the Library reception, showing necessarily their university identity card (or university verification form).

The Library users are obliged to follow all the necessary safety measures in order to avoid the contagion of COVID-19 (the use of a protective mask is mandatory). In case of waiting, they must keep 2 m. distance from each other, follow the signs and obey the staff instructions.

BORROWING MATERIAL :

The users must send a request via the special application form, and then they can borrow the requested material only by appointment, made by the staff:

1. The users search the books they need in the Online Library Catalogue
2. Fill in the application form with the necessary fields (book title, classification number, barcode)
3. The library staff, keeping order of priority, collects the books and informs the users that they can visit the library arranging at the same time an appointment. The Library users must not visit the Library unless they have received the message of arrangement.
4. All the members can borrow books depending their status (undergraduates, postgraduates,erasmus etc)  

RETURNING MATERIAL:

α) In person: the books are delivered at the Library reception during opening hours (09.00-17.00, from Monday to Friday, 09.00-15.00, on Saturday).

It is not required an appointment for returning material

The Library will keep a list of names of the persons that return books.

Β) Due to the special conditions, returning material is permitted by courier (on sender’s charge) to the Circulation Service of the corresponding Library of the user. The Library will inform the user about receiving the material as soon as the package is open (after the time period of quarantine has expired)

The returned material is kept isolated in a special room for specific time, depending on the material cover type: 3 days for paper cover, 10 days for plasticised cover. After the expiration time of isolation, the books are placed on shelves and are again available for new loan to users.

RETURNING ‘EUDOXUS’ MATERIAL:

For ‘EUDOXUS’ material that was received by mistake, the users will follow the same procedure as returning material (in person or by courier). In both cases it is necessary for us to know the student’s surname, his/her Department and his/her registration number)

PHOTOCOPY - PRINT - SCAN 

Library patrons can photocopy or scan (must have personal memory stick) material that cannot be checked out, such as Reference material, journals etc. They have to request the material they will copy via the special application form. They can also print material available via web pages or personal material using personal memory sticks. 

Charges: photocopy 0.04€, print 0.05€, scan 0.01€ /per page

MASTER OR PHD THESIS DEPOSIT:

Master or Phd theses are received into the Library as follows:

Α) In person, delivering also the relevant Deposit form:

b) By email (in pdf or ms-word format), via the relevant form (submit work) of the E-Locus Institutional Repository. Then the user must send by courier not only the master or  phd thesis in print form but also the (signed) application form.

As soon as the Library receives both forms of work (print and electronic) sends the relevant verification to the corresponding Secretariat.

For any additional information or clarification, contact us via email at libr@lib.uoc.gr (Rethymnon) and libh@lib.uoc.gr (Heraklion).

By decision of the 33rd / 05-06-2020 Session of the Senate of the University of Crete, the Library will reopen at the University Campuses of Rethymnon and Heraklion on Monday, 15^th of June 2020, so as to serve only for borrowing material (by appointment) and returning material  the members of the Institution.

OPENING HOURS:

The opening hours for borrowing and returning material are 09.00 – 15.00, from Monday to Friday.

 SPECIAL FUNCTION CONDITIONS:

The Library will serve only the members of the academic community and not the external users.

The users are not  permitted  to stay in the Library building ( the studying areas and all the service points will remain closed for the Library public) apart from the Library reception, showing necessarily their university identity card.

The Library users are obliged to follow all the necessary safety measures in order to avoid the contagion of COVID-19 (the use of a protective mask is mandatory). In case of waiting, they must keep 2 m. distance from each other, follow the signs and obey the staff instructions.

BORROWING MATERIAL :

The users must send a request via the special application form, and then they can borrow the requested material only by appointment, made by the staff:

1. The users search the books they need in the Online Library Catalogue
2. Fill in the application form with the necessary fields (book title, classification number, barcode)
3. The library staff, keeping order of priority, collects the books and informs the users that they can visit the library arranging at the same time an appointment. The Library users must not visit the Library unless they have received the message of arrangement.
4. Due to the special conditions and in order to serve more users, all the categories of public (undergraduates, postgraduates etc) can borrow up to 5 books (except books that are not for loan or are for short loan) for 10 days.

RETURNING MATERIAL:

α) In person: the books are delivered at the Library reception during opening hours (09.00-15.00, from Monday to Friday).

It is not required an appointment for returning material

The Library will keep a list of names of the persons that return books.

Β) Due to the special conditions, returning material is permitted by courier (on sender’s charge) to the Circulation Service of the corresponding Library of the user. The Library will inform the user about receiving the material as soon as the package is open (after the time period of quarantine has expired)

The returned material is kept isolated in a special room for specific time, depending on the material cover type: 3 days for paper cover, 10 days for plasticised cover. After the expiration time of isolation, the books are placed on shelves and are again available for new loan to users.

RETURNING ‘EUDOXUS’ MATERIAL:

For ‘EUDOXUS’ material that was received by mistake, the users will follow the same procedure as returning material (in person or by courier). In both cases it is necessary for us to know the student’s surname, his/her Department and his/her registration number)

MASTER OR PHD THESIS DEPOSIT:

Master or Phd theses are received into the Library as follows:

Α) In person, delivering also the relevant Deposit form:

b) By email (in pdf or ms-word format), via the relevant form (submit work) of the E-Locus Institutional Repository. Then the user must send by courier not only the master or  phd thesis in print form but also the (signed) application form.

As soon as the Library receives both forms of work (print and electronic) sends the relevant verification to the corresponding Secretariat.

For any additional information or clarification, contact us via email at libr@lib.uoc.gr (Rethymnon) and libh@lib.uoc.gr (Heraklion).

Free access to reference works and academic textbooks on Cambridge Core:
Free access to the HTML Textbooks, Cambridge Histories, Cambridge Companions & Cambridge Elements. The offer will extend to May 31^st.

Links to the content:

A full list of 700+ HTML textbooks published on the platform
https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/textbooks

Cambridge Companions
https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/collections/cambridge-companions

Cambridge Histories
https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/collections/cambridge-histories

Cambridge Elements

https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/elements

In addition, we are providing free access to coronavirus research on Cambridge Core. More than 80 relevant book chapters and journal articles are currently in the collection, with future articles being added once they are published:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/browse-subjects/medicine/coronavirus-free-access-collection

The Press has also joined other publishers in signing a commitment to make the research available through PubMed Central and other public repositories of journal literature.

More details on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic from the Press’s Academic Publishing group can be found here:
https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/covid-19-resources-and-information

Brill has opened up books and articles on topics such as public health, distance learning, crisis research:

Epidemics and crisis research past and present

Strategies for containment

Building solidarity and resilience in times of crisis

Home-schooling and distance learning


https://www2.brill.com/COVID-19_Collection

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To support you, we are making a range of our most relevant online training resources freely available. Anyone tackling an unexpected or abrupt transition to digital course delivery is welcome to make use of them:

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