Our temporary exhibition „Under the spell of precision – the life and work of Loránd Eötvös” opoened on 23 November 2019. The aim of the exhibition was to present the life and work of Loránd Eötvös, the eponym of our university, and the exciting world of physics in an experiential way.

The exhibition closed on 15 December 2024. Our online content based on the exhibition, In the footsteps of Loránd Eötvös – Eötvös’ stereoscopic photographs’ is still available.

We are pleased to announce that JSTOR is offering a trial access to its text mining service, Constellate, available until June 2025. This unique opportunity allows ELTE students, faculty, and staff to explore Constellate’s advanced text and data mining tools, fostering research and innovation.

About Constellate
Constellate is a powerful platform designed to support text analysis and data mining. It provides access to extensive datasets and tools for analyzing textual patterns and trends, making it an invaluable resource for researchers across disciplines.

How to Access

• ELTE IP Range Required: Access is available within the ELTE network. Ensure you are connected to the university’s IP range.
• Registration: Users must register for an account on Constellate’s platform. Visit Constellate’s website to create your account.

We encourage all ELTE researchers and students to take advantage of this trial period to enhance your projects and expand your methodological toolkit.

EBSCO has offered trial access to the following databases until 31 December 2024:

• Academic Search Ultimate

• Central & Eastern European Academic Source

• Education Source

• Historical Abstracts with Full Text

• Humanities Source

• Philosopher's Index with Full Text

The databases are accessible on the EBSCOhost interface on campus by connecting to the university's internet network or from outside the university using a VPN.

Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more. Title list.

Central & Eastern European Academic Source (CEEAS) provides full text (including PDF) coverage for scholarly journals published in central and eastern European countries. This multidisciplinary and multilingual database covers many subjects including business, economics, history, STEM and law. Title list

Education Source is designed to meet the needs of education students, professionals and policy makers. The collection provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,850 academic periodicals and includes full text for more than 1,800 journals, 550 books and monographs, education-related conference papers, citations for over 4 million articles including book reviews and over 100,000 controlled and cross-referenced names of educational tests. Coverage in Education Source spans all levels of education from early childhood to higher education and also includes educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing. Title list

Historical Abstracts with Full Text is an exceptional resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and much more. This authoritative database provides indexing of historical articles from more than 1,800 journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. With over 800,000 records and access to the full text of more than 349 journals and more than 120 books, Historical Abstracts with Full Text is unmatched in its scope and breadth of historical and related social science literature. Title list

Humanities Source is designed to meet the needs of students, researchers and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities. The collection includes full text for more than 1,400 journals, with citations to over 3.5 million articles, including book reviews. Coverage in Humanities Source includes worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought. Title list

The Philosopher’s Index™, produced by the Philosopher’s Information Center, is a current and comprehensive bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. The Philosopher’s Index with Full Text, considered the most thorough index of journal literature on the subject, features author-written abstracts covering scholarly research published in journals and books, including contributions to anthologies and book reviews. The Philosopher’s Index contains research published since 1940 including over 680 journals from more than 50 countries with content representing a variety of languages. Title list

EBSCO has revamped its service platform, the EBSCOhost site. By January 7, 2025, only this new site will be available, which will include all old features and will be expanded with many new modern research options.

EBSCO will transfer user profiles to the new platform, so it is expected that data stored in user profiles, quary lists, etc. will continue to be available without any disruptions or errors.

A support site has also been created for the new platform, the New EBSCOhost Transition Center, where you can find help using the new site.

School libraries belonging to the ELTE library network can consult their documents in various databases. While maintaining these systems, the ELTE University Library and Archives developed a common search interface in 2011 within the framework of the TÁMOP-3.2.4/09/1/KMR-2010-0021 project, which can be accessed directly at https://gimikatalogus.elte.hu.

The ELTE libraries' common catalogue is also available by clicking on the menu item marked:

The records of the libraries in the database:

• Apáczai Csere János Gyakorló Gimnázium Könyvtára (11 431 rekords),
• ELTE Gyertyánffy István Gyakorló Általános Iskola (26 556 rekords),
• Radnóti Miklós Gyakorlóiskola Könyvtára (39 578 rekords),
• Trefort Ágoston Gyakorlóiskola Könyvtára (34 265 rekords).

The conversion of school library databases is done at regular intervals. Once a year, usually in November, the data are updated to reflect changes (additions and deletions) from the previous year.

Our chamber exhibition on the Hungarian Jesuits' missions in South America, which opened in 2023 as part of the Cultural Heritage Days series, moved to the virtual space.

Visitors to our exhibition are able to gain insight into a unique selection of manuscripts and printed material. The South American continent was one of the main scenes of the Jesuit Order's flourishing in the 18th century. It was here that the most enthusiastic and adventurous members of the Jesuit Order, including Jesuits of Hungarian origin, carried out their conversion work. If you want to know what adventures the Fathers had in the depths of the jungle, how they canoed down the Amazon or what experiences they had among the Indians, visit our virtual exhibition!

Object of the month – turning fork of dr. Gusztáv Bárczi physician, special education teacher

Dr. Gusztáv Bárczi (Nyitraudvarnok, September 13, 1890 – Budapest, August 9, 1964) was a physician and special education teacher. In 1910 he took the teacher's exam in Léva, in 1913 in Budapest he took the teacher's exam for special education, then in 1921 he obtained a medical degree supplemented with a larynx specialist exam at Pázmány Péter University.

Bárczi initially worked in the Ear, Nose, and Throat Department at János Hospital, led by Dr. Béla Török. He achieved internationally recognized results in the education of Hungarian deaf-mutes*. His hearing testing methods extended to both the ear and the central nervous system's ability to perceive sound. He used whispered speech, conversational speech, and various tuning forks in his examinations. The tuning fork presented in the History of Special Needs Education Collection is one of the tools he used.

Regarding his research conducted with the tuning fork, he wrote: „I surveyed 170 students in our institute, of whom I took regular tuning fork images for 80. The tuning fork images show that the ear should not be banished from the Deaf-Mute Institute.”

Referring to Bezold, he states: „With the achievements of technology, the era will validate him and all those who seek to perfect the education of the deaf-mute through the ear rather than through muscle.”

*based on the language use of that time

Source: The official journal of the National Association of Teachers for the Deaf and Blind, XXX. volume, no. 10, 1928, pp. 172-173.

Written by: Tünde, Bodorné Németh; Éva, Keresztessy; Andrea, Perlusz; Krisztina, Bergmann

Photo by: Gyula, Szaffner

During the autumn break, the opening hours of the ELTE ULA Savaria Library and Archives are as follows:

• October 28, 2024 - Monday - 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
• October 29, 2024 - Tuesday - 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
• October 30, 2024 - Wednesday - 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
• October 31, 2024 - Thursday - 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
• November 1, 2024 - Friday - Closed

We wish all our readers a pleasant autumn!

The presentations from the professional day Traditions and Challenges XII. organized by the ELTE University Library and Archives at the end of August, are now accessible online.

The recordings, focusing on topics such as Library Support for Journals and Innovation and Visibility, can be viewed anytime on the Videotorium platform, allowing professional audiences to revisit the full program of the conference.