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The Hungarian feature film Cold Days will be screened in the framework of the ELTE Carpathian Basin Hungarian Summer University. In addition to the participants of the Summer University, the event is open to all ELTE citizens.

Between the 28th of July and the 31st of August 2025, our library will be closed.

Our special collections are temporarily unavailable. Thank you for your kind understanding!

The ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed on 28 June 2025 (Saturday) due to technical reasons.

According to our tradition, this year we joined the Night of Museums series of events, which included craft activities, concerts, film screenings, guided tours, restoration, fire enamel and calligraphy workshops, as well as a Mór Jókai Memorial Exhibition.

Krisztina Tóth's study „Archive on the Edge of the City” was published in the 2025/1 issue of the Archives Review, which presents the operation of the archive site at Maglódi út 8 between 2005 and 2024, its infrastructural and professional development, and the history of the building.

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences will celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2025, to which ELTE is also associated with several scientists and teachers. A prominent example is Lipót Fejér, the outstanding mathematician who gained international recognition for his research on Fourier series and who was elected a full member of the Academy in 1930. His life story – from his roots in Pécs, through studies in Budapest and Berlin, to his American lecture tour – is still a treasure in the ELTE archives.

The main goal of the ELTE Heritage Coordination is to preserve the cultural heritage of the university, which was supported by the purchase of special equipment and storage for eight organizational units in 2024. The purchases included acid-free boxes, archiving supplies, and protective equipment for the preservation of manuscripts, books, photographs, and other valuable documents. In addition to the support of the National Cultural Fund, some pieces of the University History Collection, belonging to old university uniforms, were also restored.

Due to the Night of Museums, the library services of the ELTE University Library and Archives will be inaccessible on Saturday, on the 21st of June 2025. Everyone is welcome to join our programmes starting at 15.00.

Our series entitled „Mosaics from the heritage of ELTE” presents some of the key material cultural heritage of the Eötvös Loránd University. The object of the month is the candle from the funeral of Mór Jókai.

On Sunday, 13 April 2025, on the occasion of the International Day of Special Needs Education, the exhibition Traces of the life of our namesake, Gusztáv Bárczi was on display in the library of the Faculty of Special Needs Education, as well as an exhibition on the history of special needs education, which was also held in another room, and which was also provided by the Faculty Library and the Special Needs Education History Collection.

Elsevier is offering trial access to its service called Scopus AI from June 10 to June 24, 2025. The service can be accessed from the Scopus homepage, by connecting to the ELTE internet network, or outside the university using a VPN service.

The American Chemical Society is providing trial access to the CAS BioFinder Discovery Platform until June 13, 2025, to support life sciences research. The platform is available to existing CAS SciFinder users and uses artificial intelligence to explore bioactivity relationships. BioFinder integrates the latest literature, bioactivity data, and 3D protein models to accelerate drug discovery.

The inauguration ceremony took place on 28 May 2025, the innovative solution further enhances the range of library services.

Members of the ELTE Heritage Coordination met on May 28, 2025 at the TTK Natural History Museum to get to know each other's collections and to continue professional exchange of ideas. During the event, they gained insight into the inventory and processing work of natural history collections, and listened to lectures on the history of the mineralogy and natural history collections. At the end of the day, the biological collection was presented, and the event was closed with an exchange of experiences and sharing of good practices.

The Research Room and its library and archive services will offer reduced opening hours from 2 June 2025 until the end of October 2025. During this period, services are available between 9:00 and 16:00 on weekdays. Thank you for your understanding.

In the framework of our book adoption programme, our conservator and old book librarian gave our adopter a detailed presentation of the supported volume.

Dr. Walter Baluja García, Minister of Higher Education of Cuba, and Dr. László Borhy, Rector of ELTE, President of the Hungarian Rectors' Conference, led a rectorial delegation from the island country to the ELTE University Library and Archives on 20 May 2025.

At the invitation of the Economic Sciences Workshop of the ELTE Márton Áron Dormitory for Advanced Studies, on May 22, 2025, Tibor Faragó-Szilvási and Tibor Móring, staff members of the Education and Research Support Department of the ELTE University Library and Archives, gave an online lecture entitled „Research Support with Modern Tools: Scientific Databases, Research Data, Reference Management”.

Clarivate is offering trial access to the Web of Science Research Assistant for subscribers in Hungary as part of the „Clarivate AI Month”. The trial period provides an opportunity for researchers at institutions to get acquainted with this new, AI-based research support tool.