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Due to technical reasons, the ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed on the 3rd of June 2022, but our services will be available in our other reading rooms. The library will be temporarily closed between the 4th and the 9th of June 2022. On the 10th of June 2022, from 10.00 a.m., we are waiting for our readers according to the usual opening hours.

According to our tradition, we will join the Night of Museums on the 25th of June 2022. From 3 p.m. in the afternoon until midnight, our library welcomes all visitors with craft activities, concerts, guided tours, restoration workshops and an exhibition of medicine books. Tickets will be available at the entrance from the 10th of June 2022.

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.

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.

Elsevier has made 287 textbooks available in trial access via ScienceDirect platform.

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.

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

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.

The Eötvös Exhibition can be visited without registration on the 14th of May 2022 from 10 am to 6 pm at the ELTE University Library and Archives.

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 ELTE University Library and Archives will be open on Saturdays from the 30th of April 2022, therefore the Eötvös Exhibition can also be visited.

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.

Yolland Arthur (1874-1956) was a literary historian, Hungarian national champion tennis player, footballer, coach and football referee.

NI4OS invites applications for access to computing resources (HPC, cloud services), storage and data services, software and scientific manuscripts.

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.