About the Library
The Onassis Library is EEA's principal academic resource centre, occupying the upper two floors of Building A on the Peania campus. The library was endowed at the institute's founding by a grant from the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation and was officially inaugurated alongside the Academy itself in November 2025.
Collection
The library currently holds 22,000 physical volumes acquired through a curated founding-collection programme led by the library's first head, Dr. Ariadne Romaiou. Acquisitions focus on the core engineering literature, complemented by smaller working collections in the history of science, classical philosophy, and the Greek and Mediterranean architectural canon. We add roughly 80 new physical titles per month.
Electronic Resources
EEA students and staff have full access to 18 major academic databases:
- IEEE Xplore (full)
- ACM Digital Library
- ScienceDirect & Scopus
- Springer Nature
- Wiley Online Library
- Taylor & Francis Online
- JSTOR
- Cambridge Core
- Oxford Academic
- ASCE Library (Civil Engineering)
- ASME Digital Collection (Mechanical)
- ICE Virtual Library (Civil & Geotechnical)
- Architectural Publications Index
- WGSN (Architecture & Design trends)
- Statista & OECD iLibrary
- Greek Heal-Link consortium
- Web of Science
- Google Scholar institutional subscription
Opening Hours
| Day | Hours |
|---|---|
| Monday – Thursday | 08:00 – 22:00 |
| Friday | 08:00 – 20:00 |
| Saturday | 10:00 – 18:00 |
| Sunday | Closed (24-hour study room remains open with student card) |
During the examinations period (early Feb & mid-Jun – early Jul) the library extends to a 07:00 – 24:00 schedule.
Services
- Borrow: 6 books / 30 days for undergraduates · 12 books / 90 days for postgraduates and staff
- Inter-library loans via the Greek Heal-Link consortium
- Reference and research-help service (in person, email or chat) Mon-Fri 10:00 – 17:00
- Booking of 14 group-study rooms (4 to 12 person) via the student portal
- Printing & scanning, including A1/A0 plotting for architecture students
- Course-reserve programme — every required textbook is on closed-reserve loan
- Workshops in research-tools, reference managers (Zotero) and academic writing