ProQuest has launched its Open Access Complete e-book package, with around 2 300 books from 12 publishers freely accessible. The works are available for free download and online reading for ELTE citizens. The e-books are published on the university's Ebook Central platform: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/eltehu/home.action.
School libraries belonging to the ELTE library network can catalogue their documents in various databases. While maintaining these systems, the ELTE University Library and Archives developed a common search interface in 2011 within the framework of the TÁMOP-3.2.4/09/1/KMR-2010-0021 project, which can be accessed directly at http://gimikatalogus.elte.hu. It is also possible to access it from the common catalogue of ELTE libraries by clicking on the menu item marked in red.
Joined libraries and the number of their records in the database:
The conversions of school libraries’ databases take place at regular intervals. Once a year, usually in November, the data are updated according to the changes (additions and deletions) of the previous year.
Ferenc Molnár was born on the 12th of January, 1878. His popular novel, The Paul Street Boys is laid in the Botanical Garden of the university. The plot takes place in 1889, although the novel itself was published in 1907. This year proved to be a turning point in the history of the Botanical Garden, as the Minister of Religion and Public Education ordered to hand over much of its territory to the buildings of the new clinics at the university. Pursuant to Article 48 of the 1908 Act the Margaret Island was designated as the new location for the Botanical Garden, and after the move, the former area of the Botanical Garden would have been given in its entirety to the Medical Faculty. Although plans were made to relocate the botanical garden to Margaret Island, the garden eventually continued to operate in its former location with a mutilated area. On the map made in 1901, the new border of the Botanical Garden was marked with a blue line and the location of the new buildings under construction was marked in red.
EBSCO Information Service has opened access to two databases for testing:
The databases can be used without restriction from ELTE IP addresses. In case of remote access databases may accessed after Shibboleth authentication, or for students by using Stunnel, for instructors and for ELTE employees by using a VPN service.
Access will last until the 10th of March 2022. The databases can be accessed through the EBSCO Host platform.
The MLA International Bibliography with Full Text combines the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore and film with full text for more than 1 000 journals, including many of the leading publications in these fields. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA) and international in scope, the bibliography covers scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present, including journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites and dissertations. The database also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Thesaurus, a proprietary, searchable collection of thousands of subject terms and personal names used in indexing the bibliography.
The MLA Directory of Periodicals, produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), provides detailed information on thousands of journals and book series in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, film, rhetoric and composition, as well as folklore. Entries cover publication details, contact information, submission requirements and editorial policies, subscription terms, electronic availability and advertising, useful statistics such as circulation, average number of articles submitted and published, time from submission to decision, and time from decision to publication. All periodicals and book series indexed in the MLA International Bibliography are listed in the directory.
The ELTE University Library and Archives' new calendar 2022 presents some outstanding cultural heritage of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), which deserve the attention not only of the university but also of the public. A long-term programme has been elaborated for the mapping of the cultural assets posessed by the university and making them visible, which will be implemented under the professional supervision of the University Library and Archives in collaboration with the custodians of the collections. The pages of the calendar offer an insight into the diversity of the university’s museum collections and cultural relics. The online version of our calendar is available here.
Contributors: Krisztina Bergmann, Attila Bodó, Klára Kóthay Felkerné, Lajos Juhász, József Kovács, Péter Mohay, Bianka Molnár, László Papp, Georgina Schlay, István Szente, Júlia Katalin Török, Márk Vrabély Panna Szabó, Csaba Gedai, Eszter Hegyesi, Bence Képessy, Ádám Kuttner, Éva Orbán and János Acsai. The representative wall calendar was published under the management of the Prime Minister's Office with the support of the National Cooperation Fund, the Bethlen Gábor Fund Management Ltd. and the Foundation for the University Library. Responsible editor: Dr. Péter Kiszl.
For information about the support options of the Foundation for the University Library, please, visit our website. More details about our book adoption program can be found here!
At the end of the 19th century, a new collection of Library manuscripts was created, which included the original legal diplomas. A total of 60 diplomas belong to the collection, most of which were written before 1526. Medieval diplomas were available in EDIT, and now the full series, i.e. pulbications from 1527 to 1808, can also be viewed.
The Arcanum ADT is again available to ELTE citizens in the usual ways.
Object of the month - Fossil remain of a European green toad
Fossil remain of a European green toad from the Middle Miocene, i. e. approx. 13 million years old diatomaceous earth beds of Szurdokpüspöki (Mátra Mountains, Hungary). The slab is 9 cm high.
The specimen is a near complete skeleton of a frog identified, although tentatively, as a fossil representative of the extant species European green toad (Bufo viridis Laurenti, 1768, also known as Bufotes viridis), living in Central and Eastern Europe as well as on the Balkan Peninsula. Most of the bones, including those of the skull, have been preserved on the diatomaceous earth (or diatomite) slab available, and only a few can be inferred merely from their imprints. Presumably it has been left by a young specimen.
Fossil remains of green toad were described from beds geologically more or less coeval with the Szurdokpüspöki diatomaceous earth from Austria, Germany, Italy, Romania and Spain as well. The latter occurrences, however, have yielded exclusively isolated bones (vertebrate skeletons disaggregate before the final burial as a rule). Thus, the Szurdokpüspöki specimen is rightly considered as an exceptional one.
Its excellent preservation is due to the peculiar depositional environment of the diatomite succession. Associated to the nascent volcanoes now forming the Mátra Mountains, silica-rich solutions entered the surrounding water bodies during the Middle Miocene, creating favourable living conditions for diatoms and resulting in the deposition of the diatomite succession. As indicated by the finely laminated structure of some beds as well as by the mode of preservation of vertebrate fossils of which fish are the most frequent, the bottom was free of bottom-dweller organisms, including scavengers. The lifeless nature of the environment was most probably due to harmful algal blooms poisoning the bottom waters at times.
István Szente, chief museologist
ELTE Geologist Garden, Tata
List of databases ordered through EISZ for 2022 (until the EISZ Office has completed all procurement procedures and concluded all agreements with service providers, the list is considered provisional):
The databases are available throughout the university's IP range, with remote access for students via stunnel and for university staff via stunnel and VPN.
The above databases are available from the IP domain of ELTE ÁJK (for more information, please contact the librarians of the faculty):
Available over the entire IP range of the university (for more information, contact the faculty librarians of ELTE BTK):
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (SEG) is an annual survey collecting the content of and studies on Greek inscriptions published in a single year. New inscriptions have full Greek text and critical apparatus, and studies of older inscriptions have brief summaries.
