The Library Café on the 26th of May 2022 was a success. In the Boardroom of the ELTE University Library and Archives, staff members from Romania, Italy and Croatia visiting our library during the Erasmus+ Programme gave a presentation in English about their library and their work to the librarians of the Eötvös Loránd University Library Service. 

Besides the international exchange of experiences and knowledge sharing, it was an opportunity to discuss good practices and possible future ideas and solutions to increase library users' satisfaction and continuous service improvement. In line with ELTE's strategic goal of internationalisation, the participants are also open to probable further cooperation between the institutions.

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. 

Our classroom is primarily a platform for dissemination, teaching and scientific research, occasionally also serves as a venue for scientific conferences and commemorations.

An interactive whiteboard, inaugurated last year, is used for events and teaching.  

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. Both volumes deal with the lists of the students of the higher education institutions operating in Nagyszombat (Trnava). The first book, which contains the lists of students of the early period of our university, was presented by István Fazekas, head of the University History Research Group. He emphasized that the volume may have been published by accident, as for a long time we had only fragmentary information about the students of the early years of the university, as the relevant registers were burned in the National Archives in 1956. In 2006, during the relocation of the Primate’s Archives, censuses were found containing the lists of students of the seminars at the University of Nagyszombat (Trnava). Thanks to these registers, the list of humanities and theology students who visited our university between 1635 and 1777 is almost complete. The volume contains the names of 9567 students, of whom 2598 graduated from both faculties, 2720 studied only theology, 4192 studied humanities only.

The university moved to Buda in 1777, but theological education continued in Trnava until 1850. The list of students of the priest training institute operating here is contained in the second book presented by Krisztina Tóth, head of archives.

The authors of the volume, Adrien 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 volumes could be purchased at a discounted price at the event.

Elsevier has made 287 textbooks available in trial access via ScienceDirect platform. Volumes will be accessible until 31 July 2022, connected to ELTE's Internet network, either directly or with remote access services (VPN, Stunnel).

Disciplines:

• Engineering and Computing (88 textbooks)
• Life and Biological Sciences (78 textbooks)
• Medical Sciences (54 textbooks)
• Physical Sciences (54 textbooks)
• Social Sciences (17 textbooks)

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Euromonitor International is the world's leading provider of global business intelligence, market analysis and consumer insights. The trial access presents ELTE citizens the opportunity to test Euromonitor International's services.

We work with you to provide the right report, database or custom solution to support decisions and grow your business.

End of trial access: 30.05.2022. 

Link to the platform: https://www.euromonitor.com/

SciFlow is a collaborative web application developed to save researchers and students time and effort.

End of trial access: 30.05.2022. 

Link to the platform: https://sciflow.net/elte

What does SciFlow offer?

• Several authors can work on a text at the same time.
• References can be imported from different literature management systems.
• Word and LaTeX users can work together on one document.
• Spell check by Duden-Mentor Pro and LanguageTool Pro
• Predefined journal templates with the corresponding citation styles are available. SciFlow users can request as many journal templates as they like free of charge.
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End of trial access: 30.05.2022. 

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Webinar and consultation on Scite is organised to get familiar with the service.

Subject: scite Masterclass for Researchers, Students, and Publishers

Date: 17. 05. 2022, 16 CEST

Location: Online

Duration: 1 hour

Language: English

Attendance is free but registration is needed

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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.
 

About the webinar:

Springer Nature Open Access Workshop – Hungary 2022: All you need to know about the Hungarian OA agreement

Date: Wednesday, 18 May 2022

Time: 10:00 - 11:30am CEST

Venue: GoToWebinar

Programme

10:00am – Introduction and welcome – Mr. Viktor Kutsyi, Account Development Manager, Springer Nature

10:10am – Springer Nature Open Access agreements in Hungary – Ms. Lisa Hussey, Head of Performance, Springer Nature

10:20am – Benefits of Open Access publishing - Mr. Viktor Kutsyi, Account Development Manager, Springer Nature

10.40am – The author journey: from submission to publication - Ms. Julia Knospe, Senior Open Access Coordinator, Springer Nature

11:10am – Q & A – All, including Springer Nature Editorial staff

Registration

Visitors are welcome without registration on the 14th of May 2022 from 10 am to 6 pm at the exhibition of the ELTE University Library and Archives.

The museum laboratory set up in the exhibition space provides an opportunity to get to know Loránd Eötvös from a new perspective with the help of modern digital devices. The turn of the century was not only a period of great inventions, which Eötvös joined with his research, but also of continuous change. In his stereo photographs, he captured his daughters, who climbed 4000 meters high mountains, the Mediterranean countryside he saw on his holidays, and the now vanished streets of Budapest as well as its newly built boulevards. Virtual reality glasses in the exhibition allow all this to happen right under your nose, while in augmented reality, Eötvös' character accompanies visitors through important places in his life.

Please, contact our colleagues to arrange an appointment at kiallitas@lib.elte.hu.

The exhibition can be visited on the 14th of May 2022 without registration.

Object of the month – White water-lily 

Eighty-year-old herbarium specimen of the White water-lily (Nymphaea lotus var. thermalis) from the collection of Rezső Soó.

The relatives of the White water-lily in Püspökfürdő (Oradea, Romania) live nearly 2000 km away in Africa. According to the long-standing view of the former director of the Botanical Garden, János Tuzson, the Nile water lily (Nymphaea lotus) may have been a natural stand in the subtropical climate 2-3 million years ago. During the ice ages, it was able to survive and become independent of its Nile counterpart due to the milder local temperature conditions. Its relatives were clarified by molecular genetics: it has no different from the Nile water lily. It was naturalized probably during the Roman period. Unfortunately, the habitat in Oradea is endangered by great tourism investments. 

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. As a dried plant (herbarium sheet) it can be preserved and used for educational and research purposes for centuries. The genetic stock of the specimen could used for comparison to these days, as the other 30,000 specimens of the Herbarium from many parts of the world. The greatest value of this collection is the series of the flora of Carpathian Basin, including many species of plants, which are extinct at the original habitat.

László Papp, Botanical Garden of ELTE