On the 29th of August 2024, the ELTE University Library and Archives organised the twelfth conference entitled Traditions and Challenges. This year's programme featured presentations on the themes of Library Support for Journals and Innovation and Visibility.
Our event was widely attended, with nearly one hundred and thirty guests, academics and students, as well as representatives of service partners and sponsors. The guests were welcomed by Dr. Kulcsár Szabó Ernőné Gombos Annamária, Director General of the ELTE University Library and Archives and Dr. László Borhy, Rector of Eötvös Loránd University.
Following the opening speeches, Dr. Péter Sziklai, Vice Rector for Scientific Affairs of Eötvös Loránd University, gave a presentation entitled Journals and Visibility, followed by Dr. Bence Tóth, Deputy Secretary for Science and International Affairs of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office, entitled How to Measure Innovation. Judit Fejes, Research Support Librarian of the ELTE University Library and Archives, presented important aspects of increasing the international visibility and recognition of ELTE-related scientific journals. Erika Bilicsi, Head of Department of the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, discussed the importance of appropriate metadata use and the issue of classification. The morning plenary session was closed by a presentation by Judit Fazekas-Paragh, Head of the Education and Research Support Department of the University and National Library of Debrecen, entitled Brilliant solutions, institutional opportunities in diamond open access publishing.
In the afternoon session, moderated by Ákos Lencsés, data economist (Government Information Technology Development Agency), Dávid Lovász, research support librarian (University of Pécs University Library and Knowledge Centre), gave an insight into the journal development practice of the University of Pécs. Tiffany Fülöp, Tamás Molnár and Szabolcs Hoczopán (Klebelsberg Kuno Library of the University of Szeged) presented the Diamond Open Access editorial support services, and Kata Beatrix Boros (University and National Library of Debrecen) informed the audience about their Diamond open access journal platform dEjournals. Following the presentation of Anikó Ézsiás, Deputy Director General (Central Library of the Technical University of Budapest, CELISR, Editor) on CELISR – the new online library journal, Edit Markó-Markechné Zelei, Head Librarian (ELTE Faculty of Humanities Institute of Archaeology) gave a presentation on Journal Support at the ELTE Faculty of Humanities. The session was concluded with a presentation by István Sipos, Managing Director (Softlink), entitled Automatic delivery, processing and personalised publishing of e-journals.
The session entitled Innovation and Visibility was moderated by Gyula Nagy, Director General of the Klebelsberg Kuno Library of the University of Szeged, where Tibor Kocsor, Senior Editor (Academic Publishing House Ltd.), first presented the role of XML in content production, and then Tibor Faragó-Szilvási, Research Support Librarian (ELTE University Library and Archives), presented the journal support platform of his institution. The presentation of László Garamvölgyi, Deputy Director General of the ELTE University Library and Archives entitled Open Source Discovery at ELTE – Challenges and Achievements was followed by the presentation of Adrienn Tamásné Kovács, Director of the Digital Humanities Centre of the ELTE, entitled MEK+ k –The Library of the Future Today. The session closed with a presentation by Balázs Peti, Managing Director (Tripont) entitled Heritázs 2.0 – The present of the digital archive.
The conference was supported by the University Library Foundation, Eisberg Hungary Ltd., the Scientific and Professional Library Section of the Hungarian Association of Librarians, ProQuest, Qulto, Softlink and Tripont. Abstracts of the presentations are available on our website. The ELTE University Library and Archives is planning to publish a booklet on Traditions and Challenges XII, which will be available in electronic form in the ELTE EDIT repository.