The Library will be closed between the 23rd of December 2024 and the 1st of January 2025. Our library's services will be available from the 2nd of January 2025.

Due to the relocation of our external warehouse the books and doctoral dissertations stored there, as well as the entire stock of the library's periodicals, will be unavailable until the beginning of January 2025. Many of our books are still available for loan and current literature can be found on the open shelves.

Other databases

In the past 30 years, the publisher has released over 900 books in the fields of literary history, critical editions, history, educational theory, linguistics, language history, sociology, musicology, library history, art theory, theater history, psychology, ethnography, archaeology, and architecture. Among its co-publishers are institutions such as ELTE, research institutes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), museums, the National Széchényi Library (OSZK), libraries, archives, the Hungarian Military History Institute and Museum, and various other scholarly institutions.
The publisher's database encompasses the output of specialized books published over the last twenty years, offering researchers 305 volumes in 2023. It is a collection of social science books, primarily in linguistics and communication science, continuously updated throughout the year with newly published volumes. The database, accessible through the szaktars.hu platform, is available for use by higher education institutions through both IP-based services and EduID-based identification.
Osiris Kiadó has been playing a significant role in Hungarian academic, social sciences, higher education, and literary publishing since 1994, also functioning as an intellectual workshop. The continuously expanding database, enriched with the latest publications, currently contains more than 1800 books, totaling over 600,000 pages, categorized into 20 scientific fields. The database, accessible through the szaktars.hu platform, is available for use by higher education institutions through both IP-based services and EduID-based identification.
The database includes 425 volumes from the field of modern history and social sciences. The publications cover a wide spectrum, offering contemporary and essential knowledge, including political biographies, source editions, major monographs, and handbooks. The database, accessible through the szaktars.hu platform, is available for use by higher education institutions through both IP-based services and EduID-based identification.
The continuously expanding database, covering more than twenty scientific disciplines, provides access to over 900 publications in history and social sciences, encompassing the majority of books published by Gondolat Kiadó since 1990. The database, accessible through the szaktars.hu platform, is available for use by higher education institutions through both IP-based services and EduID-based identification.
The Publisher's scope span across the fields of cultural history, literary history, literary theory, linguistics and language history, history, archaeology, art history, art theory, architecture, sociology, psychology, ethnography, library history, musicology, theater history, and theater theory. In the continuously updating database, there are currently close to 1000 independent works available. The database, accessible through the szaktars.hu platform, can be used by higher education institutions not only through IP-based services but also through EduID-based identification.
The collection contains scholarly books created in the intellectual workshop of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and published by the Akadémiai Publishing from 1950 to1996 (to a lesser extent after 1996). The the actual title of the Akadémiai Publishing House are available in the ever-expanding MeRSZ (https://mersz.hu) database. The digitization project was implemented in cooperation with the Library and Information Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Akadémiai Publishing House and the Arcanum Database Ltd.