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Statista is available for a free trial until the 1st of April 2024. Statista is a global data and business intelligence platform with an extensive collection of statistics, reports, and insights on over 80,000 topics from 22,500 sources across 170 industries.

Elsevier Publishing provides trial access to its new product, Scopus AI, from the 4th of March to the 4th of April 2024. The publisher welcomes all interested parties to its webinar in English, in which it presents the use and possibilities of Scopus AI.

The ambassadors of the National Association of Doctoral Students, doctoral students studying in Hungary with the Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship visited the University Library and Archives on the 24th of February 2024.

De Gruyter has offered trial access to the De Gruyter All eBooks package. Trial access lasts until the 30th of April 2024.

With the support of the ELTE University Library and Archives, Kipcor Kft. has launched a book exchange programme in the Library Club.

In the framework of our book adoption programme, our conservator and reference librarian gave our adopters a detailed presentation of the supported volumes.

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 Commemorative plaque of Trefort Ágoston Teacher Training High School.

ELTE has been granted a two-months trial access to the Late Qing Dynasty Full-text Database (1833–1911) and the Chinese Periodical Full-text Database (1911–1949) databases on Shanghai Libray's CNBKSY (Quan Guo Bao Kan Suo Yin) platform.

From 2024, ELTE University Library and Archives will be a member of the Universeum European Academic Heritage Network.

The ELTE University Library and Archives on the 5th of February 2024 (Monday) will be closed from 14.00 due to technical reasons.

IOP Publishing offers trial access to members of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) for journals available on the IOPScience platform. The content of the database is freely accessible without restrictions until the 15th of April 2024, while connected to the ELTE internet network either directly or through VPN.

The comprehensive exploration of the most reliable and high-quality scientific literature on the Web of Science platform using citation networks. In this webinar, we will uncover how the citation network supports researchers.

Walter de Gruyter GmbH making a public offer to buy all the shares of another company, Koninklijke Brill N.V. The companies are combining forces to strengthen their position in the academic publishing market, especially with the increasing shift to digital and open-access publishing. The new entity, named De Gruyter Brill, aims to become a leading academic publisher in the Humanities, offering a broader range of services.

In 2024, ELTE will subscribe to the following databases within the framework of the Electronic Information Service National Program (EISZ).

We have collected the most frequently loaned books in the University Library over the past year.

ELTE has been granted a 3-month trial access to the Books of Modern China (1840–1949) database on Shanghai Library's CNBKSY (Quan Guo Bao Kan Suo Yin) platform. The database contains over 120,000 books, which can be searched in full text.

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 Sándor Szilágyi commemorative medal.

The European Cultural Foundation (ECF) is supporting the ELTE University Library and Archives' Book of Your Life (BoYL) project with 10,000 euros, the highest amount available in the Libraries, Communities and Democracy call for 2024. The primary aim of the project is to support the integration of international students coming to ELTE by creating community spaces and organising multilingual thematic activities.

The mission of the ELTE University Library and Archives, which won the Hungarian Heritage Award and – as part of the University Library Service – the title of Qualified Library in 2018, as well as the EFQM “Committed to Excellence” certificate in 2020, is to provide Hungarian and foreign academic teachers, researchers and students with domestic and foreign literature, intending to integrate them into the international circulation of scientific life. Now, you can also help to ensure free access to information, to preserve and digitize our cultural values, and to acquire modern technological equipment and implement continuous service development. Please, support the Foundation for the University Library by offering 1% of your tax.

On the 31st of August 2023, the ELTE University Library and Archives organised the eleventh conference entitled Traditions and Challenges. This year's programme included presentations on the themes of Artificial Intelligence and Library Automation and Public Collections in Network.