Electronic resources

The following are the basic search tools used in the Library.

Summon (Proquest):  It is the basic web-scale discovery tool of the Library. It provides a unified concurrent search of the Library’s print and electronic resources (books, e-books, articles, reports, newspapers), through a single point of access. After conducting a search, the patron is prompted to the search results (citation, abstract and altmetrics where available).

Patrons should contact the Library for full text retrieval as well as for results concerning the printed collection (full text access: IP authentication)

E-Journal Portal (Proquest): An alphabetical (A-Z) title list of the e-journals accessible via 

Summon, as its supplementary tool. Search is also available with DOI numbers (access: IP authentication).

WebPAC: The Library’s Online Public Access Catalog containing about 80,000 bibliographic records and 185,000 items (free access).

Knowledge Base: I. Publications: Publications from the Bank’s employees in academic and scholar journals, books, conference proceedings etc. (currently accessible only through the Bank’s intranet).

National Union Catalog of Scientific Journals (National Documentation Centre): Bibliographic data of 100,862 journal titles from 189 libraries in Greece and Cyprus – among them the journals’ collection of the Bank of Greece Library.

The following databases contain economic and financial information, research and analyses.

Bankers Almanac (LexisNexis): Reference, financials and historical data for the global banking industry (access: username and password).

Bloomberg Business (Bloomberg): A platform, which delivers business and financial information, news, analyses, and data around the world (accessible only to the Bank’s employees, through specific workstations).

B-maps-IV advanced (B-logica): A system for the Greek objective property values (in Greek, accessible only to the Bank’s employees).

Central Banking (Infopro Digital): News, analyses, opinions, interviews, access to Central Banking Journal and Central Bank Directory (access: username and password).

CreditView (Moody's Analytics): Credit ratings, research, tools and analysis for the global capital markets (accessible only to the Bank’s employees).

Data.Prisma (ICAP CRIF): A business intelligence tool with financial and commercial current and historical data for about 33,000 Greek business entities and also all the necessary tools for aggregating, analysing, profiling and reporting all information provided (accessible only to the Bank’s employees).

eIFRS (IFRS Foundation): Reports, analyses and publications concerning the standards for the world economy published by the IFRS Foundation (accessible only to the Bank’s employees).

EIU Country risk service (Economist Intelligence Unit): Analysis and forecasts of the sovereign, currency, and banking sector risk posed by a country. It monitors emerging and developed markets on a continuous basis using regularly reviewed country risk ratings for 131 countries (accessible only to the Bank’s employees for 31 countries).

EIU Risk briefing (Economist Intelligence Unit): Identification, assessment, comparison, and mitigation of the operational risks involved in doing business in 180 markets. It provides expert analysis, forecasts and data covering a wide range of risk factors (accessible only to the Bank’s employees).

EconLit (Proquest): Bibliographic references of a wide range of economics-related literature of journals, books and collected-volume articles. It is an expanded version of the Journal of Economic Literature published by the American Economic Association. Searchable via ABI / Inform or Summon (access: IP authentication).

Eurointelligence Professional (Eurointelligence): Economic news and analysis of the euro area and coverage of global economic and financial events to the extent that they relate to the Eurozone. Comments and analysis of highly specialist information from national and international information resources, which helps the reader acquire a point of view on each topic (accessible only to the Bank’s employees).

FindBiz (ICAP CRIF): Balance sheets of Greek, Romanian, Bulgarian and Cypriot companies (access: username and password).

Fitch Connect (FitchSolutions): Multi-channel technology platform with reports, analyses, ratings, and information from Fitch credit rating agency (accessible only to the Bank’s employees).

Forin.gr (FORIN Σταματόπουλος): Information on tax, accounting, and commercial law. It includes decrees, acts, legislature, scholar literature, e-books, updates on taxation and implications of tax law (in Greek, access: username and password).

Gartner Magic Quadrant and Critical Capabilities (IT leaders reference multi-user, Gartner Group): Access to Gartner reports for immediate and valid information on the latest market enhanced technological trends as well as, benchmarking of suggested solutions in various technological aspects (e.g. BI analytics) (accessible only to the Bank’s employees).

Knowledge Leader (Protiviti): A repository of audit programs, checklists, tools, resources and best practices for internal audit and risk management data (accessible only to the Bank’s employees).

OLISnet (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development): The Extranet of the Organisation. Access to official and working documents, publications, statistics, agendas of meetings and committees by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (access: username and password).

Orbis Bank Focus (Bureau van Dijk, a Moody’s Analytics Company): Statistical data and reports for banks and financial institutions (accessible only to the Bank’s employees).

Orbis Europe (Bureau van Dijk, a Moody’s Analytics Company): Data resource on private companies with comparable information, ownership structures and a holistic view of companies. The subscription covers the European region with 118 million companies (accessible only to the Bank’s employees).

Ratings services (Moody's Analytics): Ratings for international capital markets (accessible only to the Bank’s employees).

S&P Global Ratings (S&P Global):  Ratings for international capital markets (accessible only to the Bank’s employees).

Shipping Intelligence Network (Clarkson Research Services): Access to data, time-series, and reports on the shipping sector (accessible only to the Bank’s employees).

Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI): Access to data on climate change and sustainable and responsible investments within the Eurosystem. Data supplied by ISS ESG (International Shareholder Services - Switzerland) and C4F (Carbon 4 Finance - France) (accessible only to the Bank’s employees).

Tax Research Platform (International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation):  A single online portal to all content solutions offered by IBFD. Search, find and use relevant international and national tax information in one simple and intuitive interface (access: username and password).

The Vienna Institute for International Studies (WIIW): Full text access to most of the Institute’s publications providing recent economic data on Central, East and Southeast Europe (access: username and password).

World Energy Balances (International Energy Agency): It contains energy balances for 150 countries and 35 regional aggregates. Conversion factors used to calculate energy balances and indicators (including GDP, population, industrial production index and ratios calculated with the energy data) are also provided. Data are available from 1971 (since 1960 for OECD countries) to 2020. Preliminary 2021 data are available for selected countries, products, and flows (access: username and password).

Institute of Energy for South-East Europe (IENE): Access to the platform of IENE, a think tank for key energy issues in the region providing a range of services covering research, assessment studies, sectorial surveys, educational activities, event organisation and networking (access: username and password).

The Library has access to several e-journals platforms on economics and finance.

ABI / Inform Collection (Proquest): Business, management, and trade – scholarly and trade journal articles, dissertations, market and industry reports, business cases and global trade news. Searchable directly or via Summon (access: IP authentication).

AEA Web (American Economic Association): Full text access to the recent issues of the seven (7) journals of the AEA: American economic journal: Applied economics; American economic journal: Economic policy; American economic journal: Macroeconomics; American economic journal: Microeconomics; American economic review; Journal of economic literature; and Journal of economic perspectives. Searchable directly or via Summon (access: IP authentication).

BIN Insight News and Banknote technology report (Banknote Industry News): Monthly and annual respectively newsletters on the production of banknotes (accessible only to the Bank’s employees).

The Henry Stewart Banking and Finance Journals Collection (Henry Steward Publications): Access to the journals: Cyber security, Journal of digital banking, Journal of financial compliance, Journal of payments strategy and systems, Journal of risk management in financial institutions, Journal of securities operations and custody Journal of business continuity and emergency planning, Journal of Data Protection & Privacy (access: IP authentication plus username / password).

JSTOR (JSTOR part of ITHACA): Full text access to more than 450 journals through three collections, related to economics and business. There is a “moving wall” of 2-5 years representing the period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the last issue of the journal. Searchable directly or via Summon (access: IP authentication).

Keesing Documentchecker (Keesing Technologies): Database with information on banknotes and more than 5,000 international ID documents from over 200 countries and organizations (accessible only to the Bank’s employees).

Science Direct (Elsevier): Full text access to subscribed journals by Elsevier and their back files since 1995. Searchable directly or via Summon (access: IP authentication).

Springer journals (Springer Nature): Full-text access to subscribed journals by Springer. Searchable directly or via Summon (access: IP authentication).

Wiley Online Library (Wiley): Wiley Social Sciences and Humanities collection. Full-text access to scientific journals on social sciences since 1996. The Library subscribes to the print version of 52 economic journals out of this collection. Searchable directly or via Summon (access: IP authentication).

The Library has also online access to individual journal titles, such as: Credit and capital markets (=Kredit und Kapital), The Economist, Global capital, Drewry shipping Insight, Financial history review, Foreign affairs, Institutional investor, Journal of human resources, Management science, National Institute Economic Review, Zeitschrift fur Bankrecht und Bankwirtschaft

The Library has access to a variety of e-books platforms on economics.

Ebook Central (Proquest): Access to the Academic Complete collection offering 225,000+ e-books from trusted publishers in all academic subject areas along with powerful research tools. Searchable directly or via Summon (access: IP authentication).

IMF eLibrary (IMF): Access to the e-book collection published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Searchable directly or via Summon (access: IP authentication).

OECD iLibrary (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development): Full text access to books, periodicals and working papers and to all the datasets and statistics published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Searchable directly or via Summon (access: IP authentication).

O’Reilly.com (O’Reilly Media): Access to more than 60K book titles plus 30K+ hours of video, proven learning paths, case studies, interactive tutorials, audio books, and videos from O’Reilly's global conferences. Searchable directly or via Summon (accessible only to the Bank’s employees).

The following databases contain statistics and datasets on the economics and financial sectors. See also Databases

Datastream (Refinitiv, an LSEG Business, πρώην Thomson-Reuters): Macroeconomic statistical series: equities, bonds, economics, international futures and options, user created indices (accessible only to the Bank’s employees, through dedicated workstations).

Fundamental financial data – Sovereign (Fitch Solutions): economic data and 3-year forecasts on 117 sovereigns (accessible only to the Bank’s employees

IHS Markit Ship Data (S&P Global): Shipping statistics and data (accessible only to the Bank’s employees).

IMF eLibrary Data (International Monetary Fund): Access to the macroeconomic and financial data produced by the International Monetary Fund (free access, registration required).

Lloyds' List Intelligence Data Online (Lloyd's List Intelligence, Maritime Insights and Intelligence Ltd): Shipping statistics and data (accessible only to the Bank’s employees).

On the following databases, users can search for legal content.

4 Κώδικες + 55 [4 kodikes + 55] (Nomiki Vivliothiki): Updated information on 49 basic legislation sectors of the Greek legislation including amendments. It deals with civil, administrative, commercial, penal, labour and European law. Available in Greek only (access: username and password).

EUR-Lex (European Union): The online gateway to EU Law. It provides the official and most comprehensive access to EU legal documents. It is available in all of the EU’s 24 official languages and it is updated daily. The Official Journal of the European Union (OJ) is also included in two series: L (legislation) and C (information and notices) (free access).

GDPR in practice: news and developments (Platis – Anastassiades & Associates): A monthly newsletter on the General Data Protection Regulation (through e-mail to specific recipients).

Government Gazette (Ethniko Typografeio): The Hellenic Government Gazette. Available in Greek only (free access).

Komvos e-forologia (Epsilon.net): Legal information database, focusing on Greek taxation. Available in Greek only (access: username and password).

NOMOS (Netcompany Intrasoft SA): Access to the text and amendments of the Greek legislation, as it appears in the Government Gazette (parts Α΄, Β΄ and D΄), and to decrees and articles on Greek law. Available in Greek only (access: username and password).

Qualex (Nomiki Vivliothiki): Nomiki Vivliothiki publishing house’s legal database. It contains legislation, case law, e-books, administrative documents, examples of legal documents and journals (access: username and password).

Sakkoulas-online (Sakkoulas Publications): Sakkoulas publishing house’s legal database. It contains theory of law, legislation and case law from over 600 journal issues, 400 e-books and 62,000 court decisions from Greek courts and is constantly adding legal content (access: username and password).

Tax heaven (TaxHeaven A.E.): News and information on Greek taxation and accounting issues, on balance sheets, VAT information and relevant legislation. Available in Greek only (access: username and password).

Εργονομία (Ergonomia): Legislative information on environmental issues and occupational safety and health (through e-mail to specific recipients).

The Library has access to digital newspapers and news articles.

Athens News Agency–Macedonian Press Agency (ANA-MPA): The official Greek news agency The ANA-MPA produces, collects, edits and disseminates domestic and international news items and photographs, as well as radio and television material for distribution to media outlets in Greece, Cyprus, numerous third countries and the Greek diaspora (access: username and password).

Bloomberg News (Bloomberg): Access to Bloomberg News content including articles with their audio versions, videos, podcasts, and live streaming of Bloomberg Television (access: username and password).

DOL Historical Archives (Alter Ego Media): Online full-text access to the Greek newspapers: To Vima since 1945; Ta Nea since 1945; AthinaikaNea 1931-1945, To Elefthero Vima 1922-1945, Oikonomikos Tahidromos 1926-2004 (in Greek, access: username and password).

Factiva.com (Dow Jones): Full text access to about 12,000 newspapers, journals, and magazines, as well as websites of companies. Among the topics covered are economics, business, accounting, IT, banking and finance. Searchable directly or via Summon (accessible only for the Bank’s employees).

FT.com (FT group, a NIKKEI company): Access to the online version of the newspaper Financial Times (access: username and password).

Inside story (The Whole Story): Research, analysis, and reports on daily news (access: username and password).

K-report (Whistler): Daily briefing on important news from a variety of Greek and foreign media alike, organizations, think tanks and social media (through e-mail to specific recipients).

Naftemporiki.gr (Η Ναυτεμπορική): Access to the premium services of the daily Greek economic newspaper Naftemporiki, including access to the digital archive and the newspaper in PDF format (access: username and password).

The New York Times (The New York Times Company): Access to the online version of the newspaper New York Times (access: username and password).

PressReader: Full text access to circa 7,000 newspapers from 120 countries and 60 languages, in their physical format, in real time and with several search options. Searchable directly via a fast Internet browser or via Summon (access: IP authentication).

The Times and The Sunday Times (Times Media Ltd): Access to the online version of the newspapers The Times and The Sunday Times (access: username and password).

The Wall Street Journal (Dow Jones): Access to the online version of the newspaper Wall Street Journal (access: username and password).

On the following platforms, there is a great variety of working papers in digital form.

CEPR Discussion Papers (Centre for Economic Policy Research): Full text access to the Discussion Papers series by the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Searchable directly or via Summon (access: IP authentication).

NBER Working Papers (National Bureau of Economic Research): Full text access to the Working Papers series by The National Bureau of Economic Research. Searchable directly or via Summon (free access).

Research papers in Economics (RePEc): Bibliographic database of working papers, journal articles, books, book chapters and software components related to economics (free access).

SSRN: The articles of the Economic Bulletin published by Bank of Greece (124 in total, starting from issue 22 in 2003 until today), as well as the series Working Papers published by Bank of Greece (302 in total, since 2003). Both webpages are constantly updated (free access).

The Library has access to library science and file sorting tools.

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (Proquest): Information on journal titles, mostly in English from various publishers worldwide such as bibliographic data, price, subjects, mailing address, URLs and contact data (access: IP authentication).

WebDewey (OCLC): A librarians’ tool used to classify the collection of the Library according to the Dewey Decimal Classification System (access: username and password).