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Search for Print Books
If you are looking only for Print Books and Journals, you can browse our Online Public Access Catalog (KOHA)
Browse our Electronic Databases
You can browse through our subscription databases (in English) by clicking on the links below:
Food Science Source
Food Science Source is an extensive full-text database designed to support the research needs of the food industry. It provides hundreds of full-text journals, monographs, magazines and trade publications, plus a wealth of food industry and market reports. Subjects include food processing, safety, service, shipping and innovation. This database includes 734 full-text journals, magazines, and trade publications, and 890 indexed and abstracted journals and magazines.
Food Science Source
Environment Complete
Environment Complete is a leading full-text database for environmental studies. It provides hundreds of top environment journals covering ecosystem ecology, energy, environmental policy, sustainability and other related subjects. It includes 838 active full-text journals and magazines, 497 active global Open Access journals and has the most highly regarded scholarly vocabularies curated by subject matter experts covering all disciplines and major publishers.
Environment Complete
GreenFILE
GreenFILE is a free research database covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,3 million records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 15,800 records.
GreenFILE
Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier provides researchers with essential business journals such as Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Management Science, Marketing Science, MIS Quarterly, Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, Fortune, and many others. It includes rigorous curation and indexing of open access (OA) journals, which has resulted in a growing collection of 2,070 active global OA journals. It also includes 2,598 active indexed, peer-reviewed journals and magazines.
Business Source Premier
eBook Databases
eBook Databases Our eBook Collection (hosted by EBSCO) includes two subcollections: 1. eBook Academic collection: this multidisciplinary collection features thousands of titles from leading publishers and university presses across a wide range of academic subjects, while it provides trusted resources that support meaningful learning and discovery. The collection includes around 260 thousand e-Books. Subjects contained in this collection include, among others, business and economics, literature and literary studies, computer science, environmental technology, internal medicine, chemistry, social science, and more. 2. eBook Business collection: this collection contains e-books dedicated to the study of business. From conducting in-depth research to understanding core business concepts, the collection offers the in-demand titles, chosen for quality and relevance rather than volume alone. The eBook Business Collection includes around 27 thousand e-Books and encompasses a variety of business topics, such as business ethics, career development, leadership and management, sales and selling, human resources, marketing-advertising and public relations, and more.
eBook Collection
Open Dissertations
EBSCO Open Dissertations makes electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) more accessible to researchers worldwide. The free portal is designed to benefit universities and their students and make ETDs more discoverable. With EBSCO Open Dissertations, institutions are offered an innovative approach to driving additional traffic to ETDs in institutional repositories.
Open Dissertations
Science Journals
Science is the world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary. Science Online provides digital access to all Science content from 1997 to the current issue, including prepublication content. You can search through back issues and current ones - and also download articles - only within the premises of the American Farm School and Perrotis College.
Science Journals
Browse Cardiff Metropolitan's Databases
You can browse through our subscription databases by clicking on the links below:
Other Free Online Databases
Apart from the Library's and Cardiff's curated databases, you can also search for journal articles and publications through:
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
The Directory of Open Access Journals allows you to search either by journal or by specific article, while also using the filters it provides for a more targeted search.
DOAJ
Google Scholar
Google Scholar allows you to search through articles, case laws, and patents, while also creating a profile so you can have your own library of resources. You can also apply some filters here as well, for a more targeted search. Not everything you find here is open access and full-text, so in that case you will need to search the title of what you cannot find here, in the Library's or Cardiff Met's databases, or even in the DOAJ above.
Google Scholar
Institutional Repository
Find Dissertations/Theses and other Publications of the Institution
At the Institutional Repository (IR) you can find:
— The metadata of Past Bachelor’s Dissertations;
— The metadata of Past Master’s Theses;
— Published articles by Perrotis College and ISAEK (Junior College), and AFS faculty and staff;
— Presentations and other Publications (book chapters, etc.) by the Perrotis College, IIEK, and the AFS faculty and staff.
Historical Archives
The American Farm School Archives and Historical Collection came under the administration of the ‘Dimitris and Aliki Perrotis’ Library in 2001. The American Farm School Archives contain precious documents relating to the foundation of the AFS and its history such as correspondence, reports, photographs and artifacts, as well as information about the history of Thessaloniki. Before the Archives came under the library’s administration significant organizational efforts were made by Brenda Marder, Niki Meyer, Randy Warner and Charlotte Draper. In 2007 Nancy Birk, Professor Emerita and former Curator and University Archivist at Kent State University (US) started a volunteer assignment of processing the existing archival collection, with the following activities:
— Appraisal and selection of existing unsorted records;
— Arrangement into logical record groups within archival boxes and folders;
— Actual preservation of documents, photos and artifacts (includes physical preservation; for example, encapsulation and digital preservation through scanning and imaging);
— Coding of each record into a web document, and
— Creation of an online inventory in html.
In 2007 the American Farm School was invited to participate in the European Digital Library (EUROPEANA), a project that is being led in Greece by a project team from the Central Public Library of Veria. The inclusion of the AFS’s Archive collections into the European Digital Library provided further incentive and led to the digitization of core photography collections.
In order for this to be accomplished and along with the processing of existing unsorted records, simultaneous selection for preservation and digitization of 1.000 core photographs from three major AFS collections for the European Digital Library Project was carried out. Those collections are Miscellaneous AFS photos, Postcards collection and various documents and scanned artifacts from the Quaker Girl’s School.
DSpace was selected to be the platform for participating institutions to enter archival material into EUROPEANA. Configuration, parametrization and installation were outsourced. However, a staff training seminar took place in July 2009, which permitted us to add metadata ourselves for each digital object using the Dublin Core schema.
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Interlibrary Loan
Search for Print Books in other Libraries in Thessaloniki!
[the platform is in Greek]
The ‘Dimitris and Aliki Perrotis’ Library gives you the opportunity to search for and borrow a print book from another Library, by announcing its cooperation with the Interlibrary Loan Network “Thess-βιβλίο”: the first Interlibrary Loan Network in Greece that includes municipal, academic and private libraries.
The Libraries which are participating in this network are: the Municipal Libraries of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, Kalamaria, Thermi, Pavlos Melas, and the Library and Information Centre of the University of Macedonia; the Municipal Library of Ampelokipoi-Menemeni is also willing to participate.
The procedure to borrow a book from one of the Libraries mentioned above is simple:
— Come to our Library with your Library Card and make your request at the Front Desk for the book you want.
— If we don’t have it in our library, we search for it through the Network and inform you of its availability.
— If it is available in another library and belongs to the collection that they lend to external users, we initiate the process of placing a hold for that book, or – if you live near the library in question – we inform you accordingly so that you can go yourself to pick up the book you requested.
— The interlibrary loan period is strictly 14 days.
Course Reserves
Through the Course Reserves module you can view and monitor all the library materials placed on reserve by your instructors for every course of your undergraduate and graduate studies.
Classroom Support for Faculty
Customized Classroom Support
The following library classroom support services are available to Perrotis College Faculty on an ongoing basis and after contacting the library staff in advance:
— Library Orientation for new and existing faculty members;
— Library Instruction sessions tailored to the needs of the each class to complete a specific research assignment;
— Information Literacy and Bibliographic Instruction sessions for new students or short sessions to refresh existing knowledge;
— Library’s Research Guide on Moodle;
— Subject Guides (can be updated according to your suggestions).
Use
Student Borrowing Privileges
Non-reserved books
Up to 3 items for 14 days
Course reserves
Up to 3 items for 24 hours
Magazines/Journals
Up to 3 back issues for 7 days
Electronic devices
1 for 24 hours
Past dissertations
1 for 24 hours
>1 month overdue item(s)
The Library will consider this item as ‘missing’.
Action to be taken: Student cannot borrow any other library item(s) until the overdue item is returned.
Item(s) requested by other users
The Library will give the student 1 week notice to return the requested item.
Action to be taken: Student cannot borrow any other library item(s) until the overdue item is returned.
Item(s) never returned
The Library will consider this item as ‘lost’.
Action to be taken: Student will be reported to Perrotis College for disciplinary action and be charged with replacing the lost item(s).
Item(s) returned damaged
The Library will consider this item as ‘damaged’.
Action to be taken: Student will be charged with replacing the lost item(s).
Faculty Borrowing Privileges
Non-reserved Books
Up to 5 items for 90 days
Course reserves
Up to 5 items for 90 days
Magazines/Journals
Up to 5 back issues for 45 days
Electronic devices
1 for 14 days
Past dissertations
Up to 5 for 90 days
NOTES:
— Faculty are advised not to borrow materials for their students (all Perrotis College students have their own individual library cards). Students who have neglected to issue a library card or have lost it, faculty are advised to direct them to the Perrotis College Registrar’s office and to the Central Library’s Circulation Desk.
— If you do not have a Library Card, please fill in this form.
Item(s) never returned or Item(s) returned damaged
— Faculty who return books and/or other Library material that has been damaged will be charged with the cost of replacing them, along with processing fees.
— Faculty who do not return the borrowed material(s) within a reasonable period of time, – i.e. six months past the item’s due date – , will have their library membership paused for a month.
Staff Borrowing Privileges
Non-reserved books
Up to 5 for 45 days
Course reserves
Up to 3 items for 30 days
Magazines/Journals
Up to 5 back issues for 14 days
Electronic devices
1 for 14 days
NOTE:
— If you do not have a Library Card, please fill in this form.
Item(s) never returned or Item(s) returned damaged
— Staff who return books and/or other Library material that has been damaged will be charged with the cost of replacing them, along with processing fees.
— Staff who do not return the borrowed material(s) within a reasonable period of time, – i.e. six months past the item’s due date – , will have their library membership paused for a month.
Photocopies, Printouts, and Scans
Black/White photocopies or printouts
Cost: 0,05€ per page
Color photocopies or printouts
Cost: 0,20€ per page
Scanning
Cost: free
Spiral binding
Transparent page protector
Cost: 0,10€ per sheet
Color A4 pages
Cost: 0,10€ per page
Plastic black or white spiral
Cost: 0,10€ per page