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.
At the ELTE University Library and Archives (1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 6.) on 21 June 2025 between 15.00 and 24.00, Zsuzsanna Illés, artist and founder of the Fabula fire enamel atelier will hold a workshop in our community space as part of the Night of Museums programme. Visitors will be able to gain an insight into the art of fire enamelling.
Discover a new technique! Let's play: try the fabulous way of painting with fire, unwind and lose yourself in the experience. Surely, you will be enriched with an enamelled picture, a piece of jewellery or an ornament of your own artwork, and if all goes well: an experience. During the workshop, you will be able to create an enamel picture, a keyring, a fridge magnet or a gift box. For more information, please visit our website or the Night of Museums’ homepage. All visitors are welcome!
ELTE organizes Third CHARM-EU Open Science Training on 20th May 2025.
The Third Open Science training event of the CHARM-EU Alliance will be organized under the coordination of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), placing a strong emphasis on the fundamentals of Open Science, the use of open licenses, digital tools, and the management of open data.
Promoting the dissemination of scientific knowledge through open access is one of the key objectives of the CHARM-EU partnership. The upcoming training—held in a hybrid format at ELTE—aims to foster the exchange of expertise and practical experiences among partner university staff to support the development of institutional open science practices and culture.
This half-day event, delivered in English, will explore various aspects of Open Science. Researchers, lecturers, PhD candidates, and research support staff are all welcome to attend, either in person or virtually.
The University Library and Archives (ULA) is committed to supporting the development of the open science ecosystem at ELTE. One of the speakers at the event is a staff member of the University Library and Archives.
Date and time: 20 May, 2025, 13.30–17.30 (CEST)
Format: In person and online (via Microsoft Teams)
Venue: ELTE Faculty of Education and Psychology (23-27. Kazinczy utca, 1075 Budapest), Floor 3, Room 311
PROGRAM
13.30-14.30 Niamh Brennan (Trinity College Dublin): Introduction to Open Science
14.30-15.00 Q&A and break
15.00-16.00 Tibor Faragó-Szilvási (ELTE ULA): Open Licences and Assisting Digital Tools, Research Security and Open Science
16.00-17.00 Tamás Nagy (ELTE): Open data and version control
Two extremely valuable and rare documents have been loaned by the ELTE University Library and Archives to the temporary exhibition entitled Magic Power – Knowledge. Community. Academy, organised jointly by the Hungarian National Museum and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The exhibition was opened on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, with the aim of providing an insight into the history of the formation and development of Hungarian scientific thought.
The documents on display are of particular value. The author of the first volume is Carolus Clusius (1526–1609), one of the best-known humanists and botanists of the 16th century. The work featured in the exhibition, Rariorum aliquot stirpium per Hispanias observatarum historia, was published in Antwerp in 1576 by Christophe Plantin's famous printers. The lavishly illustrated volume describes the unique flora of the territories under the Spanish crown.
The other work on loan is a colligate volume containing two important scientific works. On display is the work De revolutionibus orbium coelestium by Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543), in which the Polish astronomer explains his heliocentric world view. Although the roots of his theory can be found in ancient Greek philosophy, Copernicus' system had a revolutionary influence on the development of modern science. According to the inscription on the title page, the book was donated to Nicasius Ellebodius by Zakariás Mossóczy, and then passed to János Kecskés, who donated it to the Jesuit College of Bratislava in 1639. The exhibition is open until 26 October 2025 at the Hungarian National Museum.
In April 2025, the inaugural round of LIBER Middle Management Training programme successfully concluded. Launched in January 2025, the LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries) training was designed to support mid-level managers in research libraries, whether new to leadership or already experienced, in strengthening their management knowledge and leadership skills.
A total of twenty professionals from academic and research libraries across Europe were selected to participate in the first cohort. Among the selected participants was Judit Fejes, a staff member in the Department of Education and Research Support, representing the ELTE University Library and Archives.
Over the course of five thematic modules – Basics of Middle Management, Leading Teams, Communication Skills, Change Management, Conflicts and Resilience, and Reflection – participants developed the core competencies necessary for effective middle management. The training was led by members of the LIBER Leadership Programmes Working Group, with a strong emphasis on group collaboration, active participation, and peer learning.
Each live online session was supported by individual preparation, including reading and writing assignments, which helped lay the groundwork for deeper engagement with the topics discussed.
A strong sense of collaboration emerged among the participants, who came from diverse institutional and national backgrounds. The exchange of experiences proved particularly enriching, offering new perspectives on common leadership challenges. Notably, the content of the final session was shaped based on participant feedback, highlighting the trainers’ responsiveness and commitment to co-creation.
The LIBER Middle Management Training not only empowers individual participants in their leadership journeys, but also contributes to strengthening research libraries as they navigate the evolving demands of the academic environment with prepared, motivated, and reflective leaders.
The Repository Certification Committee of the MTMT (Magyar Tudományos Művek Tára = Hungarian Science Bibliography – the database of Hungarian scientific publications) issued certificates to the Fordítástudomány (Translation Studies) based on the submitted certification requests.
Fordítástudomány (Translation Studies) is a Hungarian-language, peer-reviewed academic journal, published by the Department of Translation and Interpreting, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. Launched in 1999.
The aim of Fordítástudomány is to create a professional forum of international importance in Hungarian for a dynamically developing, interdisciplinary academic research field, not only in Hungary but also in neighbouring regions. The journal takes the broadest possible view of translation studies. It provides a systematic and theoretical approach to all aspects of translation and interpreting practice. In addition to general translation theory studies, it devotes considerable space to descriptive translation research, empirical studies based on parallel corpora, interpreting research, terminology research and translator and interpreter training. It monitors conferences and publications in translation studies and related fields, and publishes longer analytical reports.
Fordítástudomány has played a significant role in Hungarian translation studies over the past 25 years, creating a forum for the professional and academic exchange of information and research results necessary for the existence of a well-established discipline.
The qualification protocol is used on journals’ publishing practices that either publish in online database-based software, are open access or delayed open access. During the procedure, the journal's quality control process (peer review) and the practice of informing potential authors and readers are examined. The purpose of the certification is to support the work of the editorial offices, to promote the uniform operation of domestic web journals, which also ensures the automatic data uploading of the bibliographic data of the articles into MTMT.
Currently, 27 journals have this qualification, and 7 of them are affiliated with the ELTE Faculty of Humanities.
We heartily congratulate the editorial board of the certified journals, as well as the authors published in the journals, and wish them further success in their scientific work.
How to successfully publish with Wiley? Wiley is organizing a webinar on publishing support specifically for researchers, teachers and students of the institutions participating in the Hungarian consortium.The online webinar, the aim of which is, among other things, to support open access publishing, will take place on May 8, 2025 (Thursday), 10:00–11:00 AM (CEST).
The following topics will be covered in the webinar:
The benefits of open access publishing
Specifications of Wiley and EISZ's transformational agreement and what they mean for authors
How to submit a manuscript to an open access journal and get the APC (Article Publication Charge) covered through the EISZ's transformational agreement.
Preparing manuscript, selecting a journal, and submitting a paper
What the peer review and production processes entail
Publication ethics
Useful resources for maximizing the Article acceptance rate and publication success:
A new digital infrastructure has been established under the name ELTE Thesis Repository to support the archiving and lawful dissemination of theses, as well as student research papers submitted for the Scientific Students' Associations Conference (TDK) and the National Scientific Students' Associations Conference (OTDK).
Theses submitted in digital format at Eötvös Loránd University, along with older, paper-based works digitized through a 2024 cooperation between the University and the National Széchényi Library (OSZK) will be continuously searchable on the platform. The repository is available for use in libraries with the Thesaurus Browser, developed by the University Library and Archives, which also offers users the possibility to search by institution and subject. The new digital service will provide access to more than 50 000 theses in the University Library and Archives and in faculty libraries, in accordance with legislation and faculty regulations.
Source/author of illustration:
The illustration was created using ChatGPT (OpenAI).
The ELTE–NFI University Film Club continues the series of screenings and discussions. We welcome university citizens from all faculties of ELTE.
In the first feature film adaptation of Ferenc Erkel's opera, the roles are played by some of the greatest European and world-famous Hungarian opera stars of our time, mostly in original locations. The film's director and Oscar-winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond found a common denominator for the romantic opera and the medieval atmosphere in 19th century historical painting, from which they drew for the film's visual language. The filmmakers only made the necessary dramaturgical changes to the familiar, classical story. The film won the Tony Curtis Award of the Hungarian Consulate General in Los Angeles at the 2011 Los Angeles Hungarian Film Festival. Directed by Csaba Káel, The Bánk bán becomes a thrilling and captivating story, accompanied by the catchy music of Ferenc Erkel.
Set in 1213, the story, written by József Katona, features Queen Gertrude's Meran compatriots dormancy in the royal castle. The unpeaceful Hungarian nobles are watching the dárido from the sidelines, and under the leadership of King Petur they are plotting. Their anger is only increased by the fact that while the king's viceroy, Bánk bán, who is fighting in the distance, is roaming the country, his wife, the beautiful Melinda, who has been left at court, is being besieged more and more openly by the queen's lecherous brother Otto. Petur secretly recalls Bánko, who, however, accuses the unpeaceful of treason. But Otto's confidant, the knight Biberach, tells Banach that the prince is trying to seduce Melinda. Otto, encouraged by the Queen, prepares to make a decisive attack.
He pursues his lover Melinda in the castle's cloisters and chapel, and she rejects him contemptuously, but is nevertheless in a misunderstood position. Bánk, who has just seen them, is shocked: it seems that his adoring spouse is indeed unfaithful...
Date: 14 May 2025, 18.00
Venue: ELTE University Library and Archives (1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 6, community space from the lobby, ground floor)
Starring Attila B. Kiss, Éva Marton, Andrea Rost, Dénes Gulyás
Our guest in the post-screening discussion are Ferenc László, music critic and cultural historian, as well as Ildikó Sirató, a theatre and literature historian and associate professor at the Hungarian University of Dance Arts.
The surviving documents, maps, books, and personal papers of Zoltán Magyary (1888–1945), university professor and internationally acclaimed scholar of public administration, and founder of the Hungarian Institute of Public Administration, were preserved and curated by the Department of Administrative Law at the Faculty of Law, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE).
In 2015 and again in 2017, ELTE and the Ludovika University of Public Service (LUPS) entered into a cooperation agreement concerning the digitisation and public release of the entire collection. In December 2023, LUPS transferred the digitised Magyary materials to the University Library and Archives. Among the contents digitised under the agreement, maps and organisational charts have also been uploaded to the ELTE Digital Institutional Repository. As a result, a total of 1,404 items in the Magyary Archive are now searchable and available for research through the EDIT platform. As of 2022, the ELTE ULA Archives has been responsible for managing both the records and the maps.
The ELTE–NFI University Film Club continues the series of screenings and discussions. We welcome university citizens from all faculties of ELTE.
Seventeen-year-old Emilia Odor's red hair is not the only thing that makes her stand out among the students at the Ilona Zrínyi Institute for Girls. She has only recently arrived from Pest to the strict rural college, but she is already in conflict with its rules, rebelling against its strict order, hypocritical faculty, and fossilised customs, and rallying her classmates to her side, becoming a leader among the girls. That is, until the headmistress announces a competition: one student from each class will be chosen to attend the millennium celebrations in Budapest. The competition soon turns the girls, who had been close until then, against each other, and only Emilia Odor recognises the manipulation behind the intention.
Date: 7 May 2025, 18.00
Venue: University Square campus (1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1-3. fszt., corridor next to the cloakroom)
Director: Pál Sándor
Screenplay by Pál Sándor, Zsuzsa Tóth, András Simó
Director of Photography: János Zsombolyai
Music by Zdenkó Tamássy
Cast:
Szabó Gabriella (Odor Emília)
Emma Bulla (headmistress)
Mária Sulyok (teacher Tassy)
Mari Törőcsik (manners teacher)
Mária Ronyecz (Sister Judit)
Moór Marianna (Aunt Nóra)
In the post-screening discussion, our guest is Pál Sándor, Kossuth and Béla Balázs Award-winning film director, screenwriter and producer.
Pál Sándor
Due to the limited number of seats, pre-registration is possible at the following link:
