University of Ioannina Libraries through the use of the I.R. "OLYMPIAS" collect, store, index, maintain and distribute the research work of the members of its academic community in digital form. It is an Institutional Repository for dissertations, postgraduate theses and doctoral dissertations, as well as journal publications and conference presentations and proceedings of the academic community members. "OLYMPIAS" also includes digitized material (books and magazines) concerning the Epirus Region which is a geographic and administrative region in northwestern Greece.