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!

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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 compete collection in EDIT

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):

• ACM Digital Library
• Akadémiai Kiadó Folyóiratcsomag
• Akadémiai Kiadó Magyar Elektronikus Referenciamű Szolgáltatás (MeRSZ)
• Akadémiai Kiadó Szótárai
• Cambridge Full Collection
• Clarivate Analytics – Web of Science Core Collection
• Clarivate Analytics – Journal and Highly Cited Data (JHCD)
• Clarivate Analytics – InCites
• De Gruyter Complete Package
• EBSCO – Academic Search Complete
• EBSCO – Legal Source
• Elsevier – ScienceDirect
• Elsevier – Scopus
• Elsevier – SciVal
• The Case Journal
• IEEE
• JSTOR Essential Collection
• Kossuth Kiadó
• L’Harmattan Digitális Adatbázis
• MathSciNet
• OUP Arts & Humanities Collection
• OUP Social Sciences Collection
• Sage Premier Package
• SciFinder-n
• Springer Nature – Springer Journals (SpringerLink) + Nature
• SZAKTÁRS – Attraktor Kiadó
• SZAKTÁRS – Balassi Kiadó
• SZAKTÁRS – Gondolat Kiadó
• SZAKTÁRS – Kalligram Kiadó
• SZAKTÁRS – Kortárs Kiadó
• SZAKTÁRS – Kriterion Kiadó
• SZAKTÁRS – Kronosz Kiadó
• SZAKTÁRS – Mentor Könyvek Kiadó
• SZAKTÁRS – Múlt és Jövő Kiadó
• SZAKTÁRS – Napvilág Kiadó
• SZAKTÁRS – Osiris Kiadó
• SZAKTÁRS – Szaktudás Kiadó
• SZAKTÁRS – Szent István Társulat
• SZAKTÁRS – Tinta Könyvkiadó – SzakKönyvTár
• Typotex – Interkönyv
• Wiley Online Library Full Collection

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.

Databases not subscribed through EISZ

The above databases are available from the IP domain of ELTE ÁJK (for more information, please contact the librarians of the faculty):

• Oxford University Press - Law Collection
• Mohr Siebeck
• Duncker&Humblot
• EBSCO – Political Science Complete
• Nomos eLibrary – Nomos

Available over the entire IP range of the university (for more information, contact the faculty librarians of ELTE BTK):

• CNKI CAJ – Chinese Academic Journals
• Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum Online
• Arcanum Digitális Tudománytár

Subscriptions terminated on December 31, 2021:

• Oxford University Press – full package
• Gale Reference Complete