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.
In our training room, which was opened in 2016, we replaced the desktops with modern laptops and increased the number of workstations, with ten students and one teaching notebook available.
On the 13th of May 2022, two new publications of the University History Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Primate Archives were presented in the Reading Hall of the University Library. The first book, which deals with the lists of students of the early period of our university, was presented by István Fazekas, head of the University History Research Group. The authors of the volume, Adrienn Kmety, Júlia Varga and László Szögi, as well as the director of the Primate Archives, András Hegedűs, also gave a short presentation at the event.
The ELTE University Library Service (ULS) is committed to increasing library user satisfaction, international exchange and continuous service improvement.
Euromonitor International is the world's leading provider of global business intelligence, market analysis and consumer insights. The trial access presents the opportunity for ELTE citizens to test Euromonitor International's services.
Scite is a Brooklyn-based startup that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations – citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. Webinar and consultation on Scite is organised to get familiar with the service.
The Reading Hall will be closed on the 13th of May 2022 due to an event. The other reading rooms of the library will remain open for our readers with the usual opening hours and services.
EISZ and Springer Nature are organizing an online webinar in English for researchers from the institutions participating in the Hungarian consortium. The presentations are designed to help Open Access publishing.
Object of the month – eighty-year-old herbarium specimen of the White water-lily from the collection of Rezső Soó. The relatives of the White water-lily in Püspökfürdő (Oradea, Romania) live nearly 2000 km away in Africa. This herbarium sheet was collected on the 13rd of October 1940 by Rezső Soó, who was one of the greatest figures in Hungarian botany and former director of the Botanical Garden, during this years he was the head of the department in Cluj-Napoca. The greatest value of the Herbarium is the series of the flora of Carpathian Basin, including many species of plants, which are extinct at the original habitat.
The Eötvös Loránd University Library and Archives, the MTA – ELTE University History Research Group and the Primate Archives invite you to a book launch on the 13th of May 2022 from 3 pm at the Main Reading Room of the University Library.
We are pleased to inform you that from the 30th of April 2022, we will offer reading and study opportunities in the Main Reading Room on Saturdays from 10 am to 6 pm.
György Pálos, an award-winning film director, cinematographer and screenwriter, released an almost complete selection of his works related to education to those interested in the subject.
The Eötvös family was promoted to baronhood in 1768 by Mária Terézia. In the family’s new coat of arms, the golden, standing griffin is a prominent element of the heart shield, which is a symbol of courage and speed. There is a baron’s crown on top of the shield as a helmet decoration. The noble letter is on display at our exhibition „Under the spell of accuracy – The life and work of Loránd Eötvös”.