The Foreign Law Guide (FLG) is a well-known resource for librarians, researchers, law students, and practicing professionals interested in foreign and comparative law. The printed edition originated in the 1990s and transitioned to the internet in 2000. The regularly updated database provides information on the legal systems and current legal sources of 190 countries worldwide, presented in both the original language and English translation.
New volume, Practices of Research Data Management: Established procedures and pilot projects has been published by the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and it is available online for free.
The volume can provide ideas and help to those who want to conduct their research according to the principles of open science, or who is expected by research funders to do open data management.
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As of January 1st 2023, the L'Harmattan Digital Database will be available under a new name and at a new location that is the L'Harmattan Open Access és Archive platform.
The L'Harmattan Archive is a database of professionally controlled scientific content, the quality of the publications is guaranteed by the editorial offices of cooperating universities and research institutes. The L'Harmattan Archive will provide 300+ books from January 1, 2023, 600 from March 2023, and 1,000 from June 2023.
L'Harmattan's Open Access platform is new, where 47 publications are currently available without restriction. The database can be accessed from ELTE's IP domains or with a VPN service. The development of eduID access is underway and is expected in the second quarter of 2023.
Several valuable objects of ELTE can be viewed in the temporary exhibition entitled Magyar EXPO successes 1851-2021.
In 1898 Loránd Eötvös made two copies of the torsion balance which are known today as the ”Paris balance” and the ”Balaton balance”; they are distinguished on the bases of the locations they were used mostly. The balance owned by the ELTE Department of Materials Physics (on the left side of the photo) won a gold medal in Paris in 1900, so it was given a special place in the exhibition showing Hungarian successes achieved at world’s fairs. Next to it, the Eötvös-Rybár balance (E 54) can be seen: its development was carried out by István Rybár, a former colleague of Eötvös Loránd, also at the university, and the invention received the grand prize at the Brussels World’s Fair held in 1958. The various types of Eötvös balances made a significant contribution to the exploration of oil and natural gas fields worldwide in the 20th century. Thus, several copies of the type marked E 54 have already been made, the object for the exhibition was provided by the Hungarian Museum of Technology and Transport.
From the material of the Eötvös Museum of ELTE, nummulites from the collection of Miksa Hantken were presented. These won a medal of merit at the world’s fair held in Vienna in 1873. Mining engineer Miksa Hantken was the first head of the Institute of Paleontology, founded in 1882, and donated his paleontological objects from his field collections to the university.
At the fourth quarterly report of the K21 Quality Coordination Committee 2022, the leaders of the working groups reported on the results of the past quarter, ongoing work and changes.
The working groups of the K21 Quality Coordination Committee have prepared and unanimously adopted the work plan for 2023.
The members of the Primary Research Working Group completed the analysis of the Student Needs and Satisfaction Survey 2022 and, in collaboration with the Quality Office, reviewed and revised the questionnaire for the Staff Service Survey.
The Process Management Working Group prepared the terms of reference for the Quality Management Handbook.
News were published and a short summary film entitled 3 months – 3 minutes was sent out on the results achieved by the K21 working groups. We also contributed and actively participated in the communication campaign on the changes to the Student Requirements Regulation.
Work on the collection and organisation of materials for the development of the „virtual Green Library” has been completed.
In their meetings, the library directors discussed the terms of reference, the process of settling student debts due to the changes to the Student Requirements Regulation, the restructuring of services and opening hours following the energy emergency, the evaluation of the student needs and satisfaction survey, the comments on the Staff Services Survey 2022, and the Coordination Committees’ work plan for 2023.
During the meeting, members finalised the micro-environmental analysis required for the preparation of the new strategy for the University Library Service. The macro-environmental analysis will be discussed in 2023.
We will update you on the results of the K21 Quality Coordination Committee and our new developments on our website soon.
The quota for fully open journals (258) included in EISZ agreement with Springer has been run out on the 6th of December 2022.
With the exhaustion of the quota authors will no longer have the opportunity to choose OA publication covered by the EISZ agreement.
All pending (Open) articles will be rejected by the Publisher, but the authors will definitely be informed of the reason for rejection (lack of available APCs/funds).
Requests, above the threshold, that may have been approved in the meantime are stopped by the Publisher's production team, the article is reset and returned to the authors, who may choose to pay for open access from their own budget.
A message on the Publisher's website about the EISZ agreement will inform authors of the suspension of the opportunity and the exhaustion of this year's quota.
If you have any questions or need further information, please feel free to contact us.
This exhaustion does not affect the publishing opportunity in hybrid journals, where authors can continue to submit their manuscripts, and all incoming APC applications can be approved.
Due to technical reasons, the ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed on Saturday, on the 10th of December 2022. From Monday, from the 12th of December 2022, we will be open again.
Thank you in advance for your understanding and supporting cooperation.
Object of the month – The seal of the Faculty of Law, 1848
The university's coming under state supervision gave Maria Teresa the opportunity to review the issue of the coat of arms used on the university's seals and redesign them using the motifs of the Hungarian state coat of arms. In 1778, he therefore ordered the use of new seals for all organizational units of the university. These seal images, which were also used as coats of arms, were confirmed in the Diploma Inaugurale issued in 1780. The coats of arms were in force until 1948, but their inscriptions changed from time to time, for example in 1848 the faculties were named in Hungarian instead of Latin.
Excerpt from the exhibition Book, robe, science – Symbols from the history of Eötvös Loránd University.
The Foundation for the University Library supported the ELTE University Library and Archives by purchasing 5 external batteries in order to ensure that power banks are available to our readers in sufficient quantities and that our locally available service runs smoothly.
Between the 5th of December 2022 and the 27th of February 2023, the archives can only be visited by Email registration. The archives will be closed between the 19th of December 2022 and the 8th of January 2023.
Thank you for your patience and understanding!