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Due to the Night of Museums, the library services of the ELTE University Library and Archives will be inaccessible on Saturday, on the 21st of June 2025. Everyone is welcome to join our programmes starting at 15.00.

Our series entitled „Mosaics from the heritage of ELTE” presents some of the key material cultural heritage of the Eötvös Loránd University. The object of the month is the candle from the funeral of Mór Jókai.

On Sunday, 13 April 2025, on the occasion of the International Day of Special Needs Education, the exhibition Traces of the life of our namesake, Gusztáv Bárczi was on display in the library of the Faculty of Special Needs Education, as well as an exhibition on the history of special needs education, which was also held in another room, and which was also provided by the Faculty Library and the Special Needs Education History Collection.

Elsevier is offering trial access to its service called Scopus AI from June 10 to June 24, 2025. The service can be accessed from the Scopus homepage, by connecting to the ELTE internet network, or outside the university using a VPN service.

The American Chemical Society is providing trial access to the CAS BioFinder Discovery Platform until June 13, 2025, to support life sciences research. The platform is available to existing CAS SciFinder users and uses artificial intelligence to explore bioactivity relationships. BioFinder integrates the latest literature, bioactivity data, and 3D protein models to accelerate drug discovery.

The inauguration ceremony took place on 28 May 2025, the innovative solution further enhances the range of library services.

Members of the ELTE Heritage Coordination met on May 28, 2025 at the TTK Natural History Museum to get to know each other's collections and to continue professional exchange of ideas. During the event, they gained insight into the inventory and processing work of natural history collections, and listened to lectures on the history of the mineralogy and natural history collections. At the end of the day, the biological collection was presented, and the event was closed with an exchange of experiences and sharing of good practices.

The Research Room and its library and archive services will offer reduced opening hours from 2 June 2025 until the end of October 2025. During this period, services are available between 9:00 and 16:00 on weekdays. Thank you for your understanding.

In the framework of our book adoption programme, our conservator and old book librarian gave our adopter a detailed presentation of the supported volume.

Dr. Walter Baluja García, Minister of Higher Education of Cuba, and Dr. László Borhy, Rector of ELTE, President of the Hungarian Rectors' Conference, led a rectorial delegation from the island country to the ELTE University Library and Archives on 20 May 2025.

At the invitation of the Economic Sciences Workshop of the ELTE Márton Áron Dormitory for Advanced Studies, on May 22, 2025, Tibor Faragó-Szilvási and Tibor Móring, staff members of the Education and Research Support Department of the ELTE University Library and Archives, gave an online lecture entitled „Research Support with Modern Tools: Scientific Databases, Research Data, Reference Management”.

Clarivate is offering trial access to the Web of Science Research Assistant for subscribers in Hungary as part of the „Clarivate AI Month”. The trial period provides an opportunity for researchers at institutions to get acquainted with this new, AI-based research support tool.

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences, of which many ELTE students and lecturers were members, will celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2025. Loránd Eötvös, the namesake of ELTE and a renowned physicist, was a member of the academy from 1873 and played a significant role in the development of the university and Hungarian scientific life. ELTE commemorated his life's work with an exhibition in 2019, the 100th anniversary of his death, the catalogue of which will be published in 2023.

As of May 23, 2025, online bank card payment is available through the ELTE Library WebApp on both desktop computers and mobile devices.

Following the 2021 survey, the University Library and Archives is once again conducting a needs assessment to map the quantity and types of research data managed by the university’s researchers.

On the occasion of the Night of Museums, on the 21st of June 2025 from 6.00 pm at the ELTE University Library and Archives in the Reading Hall (1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 6.), the ELTE Art Ensemble will give a summer concert.

On the occasion of the Night of the Museums on 21 June 2025 at 8.30 pm the Windward (Fuvalom) vocal ensemble will perform in the Lobby at the ELTE University Library and Archives (1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 6.).

On the occasion of the Night of Museums, the first adaptation of Mór Jókai's classic, The Man with the Golden Touch, a silent film long thought to be lost, will be screened on 21 June 2025 at 21.00 in the exhibition hall of the ELTE University Library and Archives. The Hungarian feature film of the writer's most beloved novel, directed by Sándor Korda, will be brought to life on the moving pictures.

The animated film „Saffi” will be screened on 21 June 2025 from 18.00 in the exhibition hall of the ELTE University Library and Archives.

The most interesting moments in the life and works of Mór Jókai are brought to life in this short, playful quiz, which we have put together in conjunction with the exhibition. We welcome all those who would like to test their knowledge – or just have a good game!