[ΓΦ4500] Specific topics of Geography (5 ECTS credits)

Central District of Athens (pale yellow) | Northern District of Athens (red) | Western District of Athens (magenta) | Southern District of Athens (green) | District of Eastern Attica (light grey)| District of Western Attica (pink) | District of Piraeus (purple) | District of Islands (including the islands of the Argo-Saronic gulf: Salamina, Aegina, Agkistri, Poros, Hydra, Spetses, and parts on Peloponnesian coast in fron of them, and the island of Kythira (historico-geographically one of the Ionian island) as well (aquamarine).

link to the web page of the State company ATTIKO METRO S.A. with maps of current metro lines in Attica and those planned. Interesting matter for a geographer !

article written by Chiara Lucchini, UIA-expert for the Cultural H.ID.RA.N.T. program, and it first appeared in the UIA-Initiative EU website here.

Scenes of Water - Water and the City - Water Flaneurs, Halandri

Article dans la revue GEO avec AFP Publié le 15/02/2025 à 7h24

PARTNERS Lead Partner : Chalandri - Greece | Elche - Spain  | Roeselare - Belgium | Rome - Italy | Serpa - Portugal | Sombor - Serbia 

Hydro-Heritage Cities network that collaborates on adapting the know-how of the Urban Innovative Actions project Cultural H.ID.RA.N.T. in diverse local contexts. Building on Chalandri’s integrated, participatory approach, the network draws inspiration from the revitalisation of a still-functioning Roman aqueduct, which was re-integrated into urban life. Hydro-Heritage Cities aims to test and refine this model as a prototype for regenerating cultural heritage sites linked to water in a sustainable, community-driven way, while also addressing climate change challenges and strengthening citizens' sense of belonging and ownership.

Through this Portal HEAL-Link members have full-text access to journals, e-books and to bibliographic databases. HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY Library and Informational Center is member of the network.

TDL hosts various publications (printed or non-printed), journals, conference proceedings etc. of primarily geological interest.

provides open access to scholarly eJournals, eBooks and eProceedings, as well as a range of integrated publishing services to the country's academic community.

Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content; since 1995, its electronic journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. MUSE books and journals, from leading university presses and scholarly societies, are fully integrated for search and discovery.

The Central Catalogue of the second most important Library of Greece, the Library of the Hellenic Parliament http://library.parliament.gr, is from now displayed on the platform OpenABEKT of the National Documentation Centre - EKT (source: EKT, Press Release, 2018-04-25)

The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.

The GRISSH aggregates, documents, stores, preserves access to authoritative Greek scientific publications. Search by Subject, Author, Journal, Publisher. (need to be updated - It seems cold ~2014 - 2015, when the website was released).

Free access given from HUA networks through HEALlink -  Index, abstract & full-text  - Physical Sciences and Engineering | Life Sciences | Health Sciences | Social Sciences and Humanities

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

"BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 240 million documents from more than 8,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library."

"We are indexing the metadata of all kinds of academically relevant resources – journals, institutional repositories, digital collections etc. – which provide an OAI interface and use OAI-PMH for providing their contents."

Ouvert au public en septembre [2017], le site internet trilingue (arabe, FR, EN - en developpement)  Bibliothèques d’Orient est le résultat d’un travail de coopération entre la Bibliothèque nationale de France et huit institutions partenaires implantées à Alexandrie, Le Caire, Jérusalem, Beyrouth, Damas et Istanbul. Ces bibliothèques ont numérisé et mis en commun une sélection de leurs fonds patrimoniaux.

...Les documents témoignent des relations entre l’Orient et la France entre 1798 et 1945... for more see presentation http://lettre-gallica.bnf.fr/bibliotheques-orient

Electronic resources in the humanities and social sciences. Four platforms: BOOKS | JOURNALS | BLOGS | EVENTS

OpenAIRE is a network of Open Access repositories, archives and journals that support Open Access policies. It goes beyond the traditional publications aggregator by interconnecting entities related to scholarly communication (publications, research data, funding, people, organizations, data sources) allowing users to navigate alongside a rich information space graph and provides a wide range of services, from deposition to statistics. -

Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Available on-line by subscription. - Research fields: science, mathematics, engineering, technology, health and medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Access to full content for free depends on the HUA Library & Informational Center's subscription

IDEAS is based on RePEc, it indexes over 4,100,000 items of research, including over 3,700,000 that can be downloaded in full text.

RePEc is a large volunteer effort to enhance the free dissemination of research in Economics which includes bibliographic metadata from over 2,000 participating archives, including all the major publishers and research outlets. IDEAS is just one of several services that use RePEc data. For some statistics about the holdings on this site, see here.

The site is an archive of the PASCAL and FRANCIS bibliographic databases in exact, human and social sciences, produced by the Inist-CNRS from 1972 to 2015, including the IGB ( INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY / BIBLIOGRAPHIE GEOGRAPHIQUE INTERNATIONALE - for IGU | UGI)

"PubMed® comprises more than 34 million citations [and abstracts] for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books." Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

Searchable international registry charting the growth of open access mandates and policies adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders that require or request their researchers to provide open access to their peer-reviewed research article output by depositing it in an open access repository.

Érudit provides access to many document collections in the social sciences and humanities: journals, books and proceedings, theses, and research reports. 

"Érudit is a Pan-Canadian interuniversity consortium comprised of Université de Montréal, Université Laval, and Université du Québec à Montréal. [It is] funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture, and as of 2014,[it is] recognized as a major scientific initiative by the Canada Foundation for Innovation

Platform developed by the Hellenic National Documentation Centre (EKT) which aims to provide open access to scholarly eJournals, eBooks and eProceedings, and deploy a range of integrated publishing services for the Greek academic community.

With English subtitles. Available until We. 30.04/2025 23:59 - Directed byMarina Danezi

The documentary "SPLENDID CITY - Athens Urban Stories" highlights the unwritten story of the capital. Men and women, ordinary people and iconic personalities, restless artists and hard workers, young and not so young ones, authentic urban residents and internal emigrants, locals and refugees, share their stories, their various perspectives, their minor or major achievements and their special signs of communication in the common urban environment.

'Imagining Greece' is an evolving research-based exhibition that explores how social, political, and cultural forces have shaped Greece's image as a tourist destination.