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.

Sources:
Qualified journals
Repository Certification Committee
MTMT classification of scientific online journals

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:
• Wiley Author Services
• Wiley Editing Services

Registration 

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.

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)

Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu1eQt_Z-t8

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.

Registration is possible at the following link:

https://ajk.elte.hu/content/bank-ban-kael-csaba-filmje-2002.e.1856

Correspondence about the film club is welcome via eltenfi.filmklub@elte.hu.

The ELTE–NFI Filmklub on Facebook

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.

Due to the limited number of seats, pre-registration is possible at the following link:

https://ajk.elte.hu/content/szeressetek-odor-emiliat.e.1871

Correspondence about the film club is welcome via eltenfi.filmklub@elte.hu.

The ELTE–NFI Filmklub on Facebook

On February 26, 2025, Qulto held its annual professional day at the customary venue, the Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library. Representing Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Dr. László Nemes, coordinator of the ELTE RRF Digital Learning Material Repository subproject, and Tibor Móring, research support librarian at the ELTE University Library and Archives, delivered well-received presentations that attracted wide professional interest. 

Their talks focused on the digital learning material repository subproject, which aims to archive and enable the reuse of open-access teaching materials produced in various formats. In his presentation, our colleague outlined the concept behind the development of ELTE’s digital learning material repository, as well as the related professional work carried out by the University Library and Archives. He also presented the key findings of a 2024 survey conducted among ELTE instructors.

According to the Rector’s mandate on the registration of the publication activities of Eötvös Loránd University (No. 6/2012. (II.23.), the full-text digital version of scientific publications published with ELTE affiliation must be archived in the university’s repository. The University Library and Archives facilitates the fulfilment of this obligation by archiving Gold Open Access publications.

In preparation for the collection of the full texts, we also make use of data from the Dimensions, OpenAlex, Web of Science and Scopus databases. In the first quarter of 2025, the processing of publications published in 2022 was completed, resulting in 1 072 documents being uploaded to the EDIT-repository. In addition, the 298 articles published in 2024 under the Read & Publish subscription scheme provided by the EISZ have also been uploaded.

The content is available in the ELTE Digital Institutional Repository, where a total of 15 281 scientific publications are now searchable.

The Department of English Language and Literature of the ELTE Berzsenyi Dániel Teacher Training Centre, with the support of the Embassy of Ireland to Hungary, is hosting a day of Irish literature, music, film and cultural dialogue on 24 April. The event will be attended by Ragnar Almqvist, Ambassador of Ireland to Hungary. The event will also take place in the ELTE ULA Savaria Library and Archives from 14:15 in the Pável Ágoston room on the second floor.

💚 Detailed programme:

🕚 11:00–12:00

• 🎤 Opening of the Seamus Heaney roll-up exhibition
• Words matter: the relationship between literature and diplomacy in Ireland and the EU
• Speech by Ragnar Almqvist, Ambassador of Ireland to Hungary.

Venue: C-building Lobby and Grand Lecture Hall (ground floor)

🕛 12:00–13:00

• 📚 Irish Scholarship Programme Presentation - Réka Simon
• 🧠 Irish Cultural Quiz with Szilva Tóth, Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and a special (secret!) guest from Ireland

Venue: C-building Grand Lecture Hall

🕐 13:00–14:15

• 🎓 Judit Kádár, Associate Professor of the Department of English Language and Literature, will talk to Győző Ferencz, Professor Emeritus of ELTE, poet and literary historian of the Attila József Prize

Topic: Irish literary influences in poetry and academic work

Location: B-building 008 Council Chamber (ground floor)

🕑 14:15–17:00

• 🎬 Film screening: Brooklyn (2015, in English, with Hungarian subtitles)
• Afterwards, an informal discussion with Remport Eglantina, Assistant Professor at the English-American Institute

Location: Library, 2.

🕔 17:00–19:00

• 🎶 Bran Live Concert - Traditional Irish Music

Location: building B 008 Council Chamber (ground floor)

In the spring of 2025, a colleague of the ELTE University Library and Archives held four online information sessions on research data management. The aim of these events was to provide researchers, lecturers, and students with a comprehensive overview of the key aspects and best practices of managing, sharing, and archiving research data.

The presentations covered, among other topics, the research data lifecycle, FAIR data management principles, opportunities and benefits of sharing research data, as well as the support and services available at ELTE. The topic generated significant interest, with a total of approximately seventy participants attending the sessions.

The presentations and related materials are available in the ELTE Digital Institutional Repository (EDIT).

If you have any questions regarding research data management, please feel free to contact the staff of the Education and Research Support Department of ELTE University Library and Archives at oa@lib.elte.hu.