The term “Electronic Information Resources” refers to digital forms of material and services provided to support research, education, and teaching. These resources include:
- Digital Books/Magazines (e-books/e-magazines): books and magazines in digital format available online.
- Databases: collections of organized information that allow the search and retrieval of scholarly articles, research, datasets, and other academic information.
- Digital or Digitized Archives: repositories containing dissertations, theses, articles, and other research material produced by members of the academic institution.
Electronic information resources offer significant advantages, such as easy access from any location and at any time, advanced search capabilities, and immediate access to a large volume of information.
Access is provided either through the Library’s website and/or through each respective platform individually. Some of these resources are restricted outside the ASFA network, meaning access is not permitted unless users are physically located within the School’s premises. To learn how to obtain remote access to these resources, users may visit the page of Remote Access Service.
These include:
- The ASFA Digital Library which provides access to the full text of selected art books and journals, as well as approximately 500 engravings, posters, invitations, and related material.
- The ArtIA Institutional Repositorywhere graduate (Bachelor) theses, postgraduate theses, doctoral dissertations, and other intellectual works produced by ASFA are deposited.
- Save the Dates: an audiovisual archive for contemporary art, created to preserve the television and radio broadcasts of Katerina Zacharopoulou from 1995 to the present day. The content is continuously enriched.
Access to the Save the Dates website is available only through the internal network of A.S.F.A.
The Library provides access to subscription-based databases and full-text electronic book and magazines databases
- ProQuest Art & Humanities Database: provides access to bibliographic information and/or full-text content from a wide range of art and humanities magazines.
- HEAL-link: provides access to electronic magazines, databases, and electronic books through the online portal of the Hellenic Academic Libraries Link.
As a specialized educational and research art library, the Library of the Athens School of Fine Arts shapes its collection development policy in accordance with the educational and research objectives of ASFA. The Library’s collections provide a wealth of information aimed at broadening the knowledge and research interests not only of the educational and artistic community, but also of the wider public.