Delegations of research performing and research funding organizations from 40 nations and six continents, including researchers, university and research leadership, libraries and national library consortia, ministries and funders, gathered at the 18th Berlin Open Access Conference (B18), held 15–18 September 2026 at the Max Planck Society Harnack House in Berlin. Their aim was to define […]

HEAL-Link provides all its members with access to the ScienceDirect AI service, which is part of LeapSpace. This is an Artificial Intelligence system developed to deliver reliable information from the scientific literature. The reliability of SD AI is based on the extensive database from which it draws information, as well as on minimizing the likelihood […]

HEAL-Link informs the academic and research community of its member institutions about the current status of its agreements with scholarly publishers. These agreements provide access to academic and scientific content, and in recent years, many of them also include coverage of Article Processing Charges (APCs) for Open Access (OA) publishing. It is particularly important to […]

On behalf of HEAL-Link, we would like to inform you that the service covering the cost of Open Access (OA) publishing with Oxford University Press is expected to be suspended until the end of July, due to delays in the signing process of the 2025 annual agreement. The service is expected to be restored by […]

We are pleased to inform you that, following coordinated efforts by HEAL-Link and the company INTEROPTICS, which is responsible for the procurement process, access to the TLG database is gradually being restored for all institutions. We would like to remind you that the procurement procedures have not yet been completed, nor has the contract with […]

We would like to inform you about the discontinuation of access to the TLG database, which is due to the delayed renewal of the contract with the respective provider. We remind you that the renewal of our contracts with all publishers has not yet proceeded due to the delay in the approval of funding from […]

HEAL-Link invests in infrastructure and support services for researchers of its member institutions, connects with the European ecosystem of organisations for Open Science and collaborates with its other partners to develop educational modules promoting the best practices in areas such as Open Access(OA) and Research Data Management(RDM). The educational program “Quickstart to Open Science” is […]

The Hellenic Academic Libraries Link (HEAL-Link) has just activated the transformative agreement (read & publish) with Elsevier. This provides the opportunity to all members of the Greek Academic and research community to publish their work under open access, with total waiver from publication costs. At the same time, access to the publisher’s electronic content is maintained.This agreement […]

We would like to inform all HEAL-Link members that, in the context of the long-standing cooperation and mutual trust between publishers/providers and HEAL-Link, access to the full content of our resources, as well as publishing in OA status (APC publication cost coverage) to all publishers with whom HEAL-Link has an greement, will remain active, although […]

We would like to inform you that next December, Elsevier will be holding two webinars on the proper use of Scopus, entitled Introduction to Scopus. The dates will be: – Tuesday, December 3, 2024 at 11.30 am. Registration link: https://elsevier.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gIk8VnPNSGi–dMMv0-cNw#/registration – Tuesday, December 17, 2024 at 11.30 am. Registration link: https://elsevier.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FkL3hRtrScSnvTrg2WN65A The seminar is free […]

The estimated number of articles that can be covered by HEAL-Link in the publisher IEEE is expected to run out in April 2024 (based on the most recent data). More announcements will follow, if there is any change. For more information, you can contact HEAL-Link Office at support@heal-link.gr and 2310998210, and the Scientific Communication Unit […]

The estimated number of articles that can be covered by HEAL-Link in the publisher Springer Nature is expected to run out in about four months (May 2024). There will be constant updates to the community so that we can provide the most up-to-date information about the period of time when articles are expected to be […]

HEAL-Link, announces a three-month trial period regarding De Gruyter’s extensive collection of electronic books. During this trial period HEAL-Link members will have free online access to a collection of more than 160,000 e-books from 56 partner publishers, including the University Press Library. The three-month trial period will run from February 1 to April 30, 2024. […]

We would like to inform you that access through an institutional account (Single Sign On – SSO), for Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy service, is now available. Instructions: Click on “Sign in – Shibboleth” or directly click here Select GRNet federation Select your institution from the list of institutions and enter your institutional login [...]

Dear HEAL-Link members, we would like to inform you that a 60-day trial period of access (until 13/12/2023) to the Statista database has been activated. Access is controlled through the institutions’ declared IP addresses. The members of the institutions simply enter www.statista.com while connected to the university network (without creating a personal account (free basic […]

HEAL-Link’s HARDMIN Research Data Repository fulfilled all of the prerequisites to be included in the Re3data Repositories catalog . This is another step towards strengthening the Repository’s extroversion. Re3data is a global registry of research data repositories covering research data repositories from different academic disciplines. It includes repositories that enable the permanent storage and access […]

HOBOKEN, N.J. – December 14, 2022 – Wiley, one of the world’s largest publishers and a global leader in research and education, today announced a new three–year open access agreement with HEAL–Link, the consortium of academic and research libraries across Greece.The agreement, which represents Wiley’s first in Greece, allows 43 participating member institutions access to […]

The world’s largest disciplinary open access initiative, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP³), has officially launched a new initiative to make books in particle physics and related domains fully open access, under the SCOAP³ for Books program. Since the launch of SCOAP³ in 2014, the transition to open access for […]

We are pleased to inform you that the renewal of the agreement with the Elsevier publisher, for the 3 years 2022-2024 has been completed. The agreement includes: access to the journals included since January 1, 2022 in the Freedom Collection access to the journal Cell by Cell Press access to the journal La Presse Médicale […]

The “Hellenic Open Science Initiative – HOSI” was established on February 28, 2022 by 13 leading Greek research, technology and innovation bodies, with the aim of the coordinated and participatory implementation of Open Science policies in Greece and the official national contribution and representation the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). HEAL-Link is a founding member […]

We would like to inform you that access through an institutional account (Single Sign On - SSO), for Clarivate (Web of Science), is now available. Instructions: Click on "Institutional sign in" or directly click here Select "GRNet Federation" Select your institution from the list of institutions and enter your institutional login details. Then click "Accept". [...]

We are pleased to inform you that due to the forthcoming license agreement with De Gruyter, HEAL-Link has secured access to more than 340 peer-reviewed journal titles in the social sciences and humanities as well as science, engineering, technology and medicine. Specifically, all HEAL-Link members have access to the following collections: Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine […]

We would like to inform you that a trial has been activated to De Gruyter eJournal Collection for all HEAL-Link members. The trial will be active until 30 December 2020 and access is allowed through IP address recognition. De Gruyter eJournal Collection provides access to over 400 peer-reviewed journals across social sciences, humanities, sciences,engineering, technology […]

Statement by the Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) on the interventions that need to be made in order to constructively promote distance education and research in Member States. This statement calls for the support of higher education institutions and libraries in order to be able to deliver the work they owe to their communities […]

We would like to inform you that IEEE offers free access to its eLearning (IEEE elearning) course, as part of its long-standing and excellent collaboration with HEAL-Link. The Electronic Resources Commitee has agreed to accept the offer of temporary (until 30-6-2020) access to this publisher’s e-courses in order to enhance (under the current conditions of […]

HEAL-Link signed the ICOLC Statement on the Global COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Library Services and Resources

We are pleased to inform you that HEAL-Link has signed an agreement with the following publishers/providers for the years 2019-2021: American Chemical Society American Institute of Physics American Physical Society (2019) Association for Computing Machinery (2019) Cambridge University Press Elsevier Emerald IEEE Institute of Physics InterOPTICS (Sep. 2019 – Aug. 2021) (John Benjamins’ 25 e-books […]

We would like to inform you that access to Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and PsycARTICLES (APA) electronic journals, via the OVID platform, has been suspended. This is due to the delay in completing the agreement renewal process with the provider for the years 2019-2021 and due to the inability to pay the approved budget for […]

Every month, on the first Wednesday at 14h30 CET, the OpenAIRE Provide management team are hosting a webconference call with the OpenAIRE content providers community. OpenAIRE provide management team is starting in the coming week to run a series of regular online community calls targeting all OpenAIRE content providers managers. We would like to have […]

We would like to inform you that access to Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) has been restored for all HEAL-Link members.