For full-text access of the electronic resources provided by the EUC Library while off campus. Your credentials are the same EUC email and password as you use to access the EUC student portal and library account. For staff and faculty, these are the same credentials as you use to access your EUC computer. External users can access the databases only by using the computers available at the EUC Library.

The academic library was, is, and always will be an integral part of learning. Even in this digital age, the library has a lot to offer by managing online data, weaving and sorting electronic sources, and providing support to users who are constantly bombarded by electronic information. While it is true that students live, breath, socialize and interact in the digital environment they still need the library’s support to help them organize, structure and prioritize electronic information. For this to be achieved, the library needs to be up-to-date with technology to support users at any time they request the information and from any place. The library can still function under its traditional setting it is evident that there has to be a shift of the library’s priorities from investing in physical and analog items to electronics ones.

The Library of European University Cyprus for over 28 years has strived to maintain not only a level of academic excellence but also of flexibility to be among the first to adapt to the changes that take place in regards to traditional teaching and teaching methodology.  It is due to this flexibility why the library of EUC first offered online access to a Library webpage in Cyprus and through the webpage to thousands of other sites. Additionally, the library added its first electronic journals database in 1996 (Gale’s SearchBank/Infotrac) and was one of the first to offer in Cyprus access to Proquest’s ABI/Inform and Emerald’s Management Insight through its Internet facilities.

The Library is located on the 2nd floor of the South Block Building.  It occupies the whole floor and has a total area of 1300 square meters.  The Library is designed to provide a seating capacity of approximately 270 seats (individual study and group study spaces, 2 group study rooms with a capacity for ten users each, a computer lab with 20 stations, reading/quiet room).

The Library is fully computerized to assist librarians and students in a variety of ways.  Computer terminals are available for the users providing access to the Internet.  Seventeen public workstations are supporting the needs of users, three stations for searching the Library’s cataloging system and one station used by the librarians in assisting users and providing training courses.  In addition, the library has a computer lab with twenty stations, two study/presentation rooms with a sitting capacity for ten users for each room, and a photocopy room with two machines. Wireless network access also available to all students.

The Library is open six days a week for a total of seventy-four hours.  The Library schedule is Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.  In addition, the Library is open six days during the Christmas break and six days during the Easter break, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The reading room located next to the library is open every day from 8:00 a.m. to 12 p.m. including weekends.

To encourage students to use the Library, new students are invited to visit the Library during the orientation period. The librarians offer a tour of the library and speak about services and operation.  In addition, faculty members are encouraged to bring their students to the Library and give them additional information on using specific sources and also on effective search strategy methods.

Library users are offered assistance in locating books, periodicals and searching the Internet. In addition to the central reference/reception desk, an information desk is placed in a highly visible area in the middle of the Library, to assist students and faculty.  Librarians often approach students to offer assistance rather than waiting for a student to approach the librarian.

Library collections are organized by internationally approved conventions and are arranged for efficient retrieval at the time of need based on the Library of Congress Classification System (LCCS). The University’s Library uses the LCCS since 1986. The Library provides its users easy access to books, periodicals, journals, and other reference material.

For the search of a book, the Library is fully computerized. A user can track down a book by merely entering the author, a keyword or title of a book. The user can also search the database by subject so he/she can look at all books in the Library on a specific topic.

The Library purchased the KOHA Open-Source Integrated Library and is currently in the process of re-cataloging all of its book collection to meet international standards and to be part of the Cyprus Libraries Union Catalogue.

To assist research, the Library subscribes to a number of databases such as Academic OneFile-Infotrac, Proquest Central, PsyArticles, ACM Digital Library, Emerald Insight 200, EBSCO’S Academic Ultimate and Business Source Ultimate, Sage, Taylor & Francis, Kluwer Law, Standard and Poor’s Capital IQ, LexisNexis, Medline Complete, CINAHL Plus full-text, Elsevier’s Freedom Collection, Health and Medical Complete-Proquest, Nature, Springer, IEEE, Westlaw International, Wiley, and many more through its internet facilities. The databases provide users with access to full-text magazines, journals, newspapers, conference proceedings, company reports and many more. Currently, users have access to 100,000+ e-journals titles and 230,000+ e-books.

A library user can borrow up to seven books at a time, for three weeks.  A user, wishing to keep the books for a more extended period, can do so by renewing the books at the Library.  Students cannot borrow books marked with a red sticker.  Such books are used as a reference or are put on reserve for certain classes.  When books are overdue, students are notified through the mail or by email and have to pay a fine of 50 cents a day.  Money from fines goes toward buying books for the library.

The photocopy center located within the University premises provides services to students such as typing, color printing, and selling of school materials and supplies. Users can purchase from the center magnetic cards for usage with the self-service photocopy machines. The blank magnetic cards cost 1 euro plus 10 euro for 200 copies. There are restrictions on what users can photocopy (according to legislation).  Copyrights in Cyprus are regulated by the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Law of 1976 to 2006 (Law No. 59/1976, as amended by Laws 63/77, 18/93, 54(I)/99, 12(I)/2001, 128(I)/2002 and 128(I)/2004 and 123(I)/2006) and in all cases the responsibility for complying with legislation rests with the user making the copies.

The Library is also in charge of ordering and selling textbooks. The goal of the bookstore is to make student life easier by providing students with all the needed books for their studies.