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The databases can be used without restriction from ELTE IP addresses. In case of remote access databases may accessed after Shibboleth authentication, or for students by using Stunnel, for instructors and for ELTE employees by using a VPN service.

The Arcanum ADT is again available to ELTE citizens in the usual ways.

Az Elektronikus Információszolgáltatás Nemzeti Program (EISZ) portfóliójából az ELTE 2022-ben a következő adatbázisok előfizetését tervezi (amíg az EISZ Iroda nem folytatott le minden közbeszerzési eljárást és kötött meg minden megállapodást a szolgáltatókkal, addig a lista ideiglenesnek tekintendő).

ELTE University Library and Archives initiated the certification process for ELTE Institutional Repository (ELTE EDIT) at Repository Qualification Commission of Hungarian Scientific Bibliography Database (MTMT). As a result, the Commission accepted the institutional archive as a certified repository.

The University Library and Archives conduct a survey in order to map the amount and type of research data managed by researchers at ELTE. The other purpose of this survey is assessing the data management practices of researchers, their willingness and motivation to reuse others’ and share own research data. Educators, researchers and PhD student may launch the questionnaire from Neptun (Administration/Questionaires). The questionnaire anonym and voluntary. It takes maximum of 15 minutes to complete. The end date of completition is the 3rd of December 2021.

Through a series of webinars in English, CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure) provides insight into the contents of their databases, of their services and how to use the database management platform. The service provider will hold webinars on the 8th of November, 2nd of December, 6th of January and 4th of February. You can apply for the first event now.

China's largest scientific platform, CNKI – China National Knowledge Infrastructure – provides full IP-based access to its databases to all EISZ member institutions, so as to ELTE, from the 1st of November 2021 to the 28th of February 2022.

In order to ensure the widest possible access to the results of research, as well as development and innovation, Hungary has joined the international initiative Open Science on the 18th of October 2021. In the spirit of transparency and cooperation, the initiative opens new doors for the exploitation and innovative dissemination of scientific results using modern technological and digital developments.

Oxford University Press has put a list of articles on its website with the aim of providing early-stage researchers with a comprehensive picture of information about publishing in journals. The collection is fully open until 31st of October 2021.

MTMT training sessions are organized by ELTE ULA Education and Research Support Department and Library of Faculty of Humanities for the international lecturers, students, PhD candidates of FOH. MTMT beginners’ and advanced training (for max. 15 person each) is offered free of charge, but registration is required.

ELTE University Library pleased to announce a new series of Research Data Management Trainings presented by the working group of Hungarian Open Repositories (HUNOR), National Research Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH) and the College of University Library Directors (EKK). Unlike the previous workshops of this series this event is a face-to-face meeting. During the workshops, the focus will be on research data management standards and the FAIR principles, which serve to ensure sustainability and greater visibility.

Oxford University Press and EISZ have signed an agreement under which articles submitted by ELTE’s corresponding author for the publisher's hybrid journals may be published in Open Access in 2021 without APC.

EISZ and Oxford University Press have signed an agreement on that corresponding authors affiliated to ELTE will be able to publish their articles Open Access without paying APC in the publisher’s hybrid journals.

The collection of the Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) database will be available until 30 September 2021. The database contains journals dealing with economic, artistic, historical, legal, library and information science and social science issues in Central and Eastern Europe.

Elsevier has offered a 30-day trial access to the Scopus database and SciVal.

EISZ (Electronic Information Service National Programme) Secretariat and Clarivate Analytics are organizing a webinar on June 21, 2021. The webinar provides an introduction to the various capabilities of MetaCore application for disease and drug research.

We would like to inform the lecturers, researchers and students of Eötvös Loránd University that our university has subscribed to the following 37 databases for 2021, six of which offere free Open Access publishing opprtunity (Akadémiai Kiadó, Cambridge University Press, De Gruyter, Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley).

There has been a new obligation since last year, so every applicant has to attach a certificate from the MTMT to the application. The document includes the applicant’s scientometric datas and it has to be issued by the central University Library.

An ORCID has been required for validation in the STA database since 1st of april. It means that your STA profile has to include your ORCID, if you want to validate the profile.

In 2021, 6 databases ordered through EISZ will provide free Gold Open Access publishing options.  Pursuant to the subscription agreement between EISZ and the publishers, OA publication may be requested by the corresponding author of the articles, who must have an ELTE affiliation in order for the OA publication with no APC to the authors.