EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY CYPRUS LIBRARY

EUC Library has evolved over 36 years to support modern academic learning through both physical and digital resources. It was the first in Cyprus to offer online library access and electronic journal databases.

Spanning 1,300 square meters on the 2nd floor of the South Block Building with a capacity of 200 people, the facility includes a computer lab, study rooms, and self-checkout stations. It is complemented by an extended-hours reading room and an additional reading room in the School of Medicine.

The library offers access to over 53,000 unique titles, 330,000 e-books, and 145+ databases via EUC OpenAthens Login. Users can search the EUC Online Library Catalog and access faculty research through Plemochoe.

Key Points

  • Cyprus Libraries Consortium (CLC): As one of the seven founding members of the CLC, European University Cyprus (EUC) has been part of a unified national effort to enhance research resources since 2013. The CLC negotiates national-level subscriptions on behalf of all members to ensure broad access to digital content. Under the CLC agreement, all EUC students, faculty, and staff are entitled to reciprocal borrowing privileges and on-site services at other participating academic libraries across Cyprus for the duration of their university membership.
  • Transformative Agreements for Researchers. Member of the “Read & Publish” type transformation agreements with several prominent publishers such as ACM, Cambridge University Press, De Gruyter, Emerald, Oxford University Press, Sage, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Wiley. Most of the agreements concern the publication of articles in Open Access (OA) status with a complete exemption from the Article Processing Charge (APC) for all collaborating academic institutions in Cyprus through CLC.
  • Plemochoe Repository: One of the first open access institutional repositories established for the sole purpose of gathering preserving and distributing original research material produced by the EUC faculty and researchers. It comprises undergraduate and graduate dissertations, doctoral theses, journal articles, conference papers, working papers, technical reports, and other educational or research documents. Its primary goal is to promote open access, making EUC research visible to both local and international scientific communities
  • OpenAthens: One of the first universities to use the OpenAthens Identity and Access Management as a single sign-on (SSO), allowing seamless access to both internal and external web-based resources.
  • Research Support: EUC library provides researchers, faculty and students with access to essential research and bibliographic management tools including Mendeley, RefWorks, Elsevier Scopus and ProQuest Pivot.
  • Library Webinars and Training Sessions: To ensure effective use of all electronic resources and services the library conducts a series of regular webinars each semester, covering the full research lifecycle, from literature searching to citation management and funding discovery.
  • Cyprus Archive of Doctoral Dissertations (CADD): The Cyprus Archive of Doctoral Dissertations (CADD) serves as the unified portal for the registration and access of doctoral-level research conducted in Cyprus. The project was implemented in collaboration with the Cyprus Libraries Consortium (CLC).