About Pergamos

"Pergamos" (named after the homonymous ancient Greek city of Asia Minor), is the Unified Institutional Repository / Digital Library Platform (UIRDLP) of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). For simplicity reasons, hereafter, Pergamos will be also referred to as Institutional Repository (IR) or Digital Repository (DR) of NKUA.

The current version of "Pergamos" was developed in part under Subproject 3: «Upgrade, extension, development and security of Library Information Systems», of the project titled «Upgrade, extension, development of Information Systems/Applications for NKUA’s procedures digitization» (MIS code 5052690) of the «Public Sector Reform 2014-2020» Operational Programme, as well as Subproject 1: "Development of an Open Access Institutional Repository / Digital Library" of the project titled "Development of a unified Digital Repository Platform and related electronic information services for the Library of NKUA" (MIS code: 304160), of the Digital Convergence Operational Programme (NSRF 2009-2013).

The Pergamos platform includes or may include the following material types:

• Digital Collections of Educational and Cultural Value for the Academic Community
• Graduate and Diploma Theses, Doctoral Dissertations
• Rare digitized material that belongs to the Library & Information Center (LIC) or other organizational units of NKUA (e.g. old periodicals, books, honorary articles, proceedings of NKUA conferences, etc.)
• Archives and private archive collections
• Educational material for students with disabilities
• Scientific publications and other research material

The purpose of "Pergamos" is twofold: on the one hand it is used for the preservation, documentation and promotion of heterogeneous digital collections owned by the University of Athens and on the other it provides the necessary "space" for the systematic aggregation, organization, management and display of the material produced by the scientific and intellectual activities of the academic community of the NKUA. The aforementioned collections, which are constantly updated by their curators, are at the same time made available not only to the academic community of the NKUA, but also to other members of the Greek and international scientific, academic and research community, by providing open access to the majority of their content. The thematic content is quite broad and relevant to all the disciplines of the NKUA Schools and Departments.