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Full-text database with scientific requirement covering some fields of science.


Full-text scientific books


It is available for all those who have membership card, in all libraries; remote use is also possible.
Full-text database providing both the earlier and current issues of the journals by Akadémiai Kiadó (AK).


Publications by Akadémiai Kiadó provide opportunities for scholars to publish the latest (current) results, from nuclear chemistry through microbiology to linguistics, among others.
Accessibility:
The database of the dictionaries of Akadémiai Kiadó, searchable by entries.


- English - Hungarian comprehensive dictionary
- Hungarian - English comprehensive dictionary
- English - Hungarian universal comprehensive dictionary
- Hungarian - English universal comprehensive dictionary
- Hungarian - English explanatory dictionary of environmental protection
- English - Hungarian financial dictionary
- English - Hungarian technical dictionary
- German - Hungarian comprehensive dictionary
- Hungarian - German comprehensive dictionary
- German - Hungarian technical dictionary
- French - Hungarian comprehensive dictionary
- Hungarian - French comprehensive dictionary
- Spanish - Hungarian comprehensive dictionary
- Hungarian - Spanish comprehensive dictionary
- Russian - Hungarian comprehensive dictionary
- Hungarian - Russian comprehensive dictionary
- Hungarian - Dutch dictionary
- Hungarian - Slovenian comprehensive dictionary
- Hungaria - Serbian dictionary
- Hungarian - Latin dictionary
- Latin - Hungarian dictionary
- Swedish - Hungarian dictionary
- Chinese - Hungarian dictionary
- Hungarian spelling rules 12. edition
- Hungarian synonymicon
- Dictionary of Hungarian proverbs
- Akadémiai Dictionary of spelling
- Dictionary of foreign words and phrases
- Encyclopedia of environmental protection
- Encyclopedia of psychology
- You can search simultaneously in more dictionaries on the search interface.
- The content of the database is available with valid membership card authorizing to borrow.
Full-text database including specialized literature and belletristic books in the fields of literature, history and religion.


Full-text database in Hungarian containing dailies, periodicals and reference books.


The database providing Hungarian contents includes hundreds of domestic specialized journals, academic bulletins, encyclopaedias, weekly and daily newspapers, yearbooks and reference books, among others. The database is one of the biggest online collection of Hungarikums of 19th-20th centuries; an important source of Hungarian cultural, social and economic history. The content of the collection covers mainly publications of the 20th century, however, several texts of the 19th century and a few ones of the 21st century are also available. Digital contents are stored and shown in PDF format, so users can see the authentic page image (view) of the original document.
The content of the database is available with valid membership card authorizing to borrow.
Full-text history, literary history, art and social science books.


Full-text books from the fields of history, philosophy and social science and by classic authors.


Nearly 150 volumes of Attraktor Kiadó (Attraktor Publisher) are available by the service.
Full-text books from the fields of history, literary history, cultural history, linguistics, arts and social sciences.


Bibliography of Hungarian belletristic works.


Search interface of Budapest related digital documents navigating in space and time via interactive maps.



Bibliography of Budapest related books and articles.



Database of Budapest related pictures.



The database is the picture archive of Budapest related original photos and drawings and other pictures published in different publications.
More than 16 000 pictures about former faces of the capital and its inhabitants’ lives. The database is enlarged, modified and updated periodically. Suggestions and corrections of mistakes are welcomed by the editors through “Readers’ comments” window available at all picture descriptions.
Database of Budapest related pictures in Hungaricana.



Entertaining and informational E-book loan via the CloudLibrary platform.


Number of e-books readers can borrow is 1 title at the same time, the loan period is 2 weeks. After the expiration of the due date, the e-book will cease to be accessed for the reader. The due date on an e-book can be extended up until that e-book is reserved by another reader. Reservation for e-books is free of charge. Number of e-books you can reserve is 1 title.
Availability of the reserved e-book can be checked on the CloudLibrary platform. If you have provided your e-mail address, you will receive a message about the fulfilled reservation. You will have 48 hours to borrow the reserved e-book.
The content of the database is available with valid membership card authorizing to borrow only.
The service cannot be used with an online registration valid for 30 days and a daily card.
Search interface of electronic contents and databases.


It is an electronic catalog: search interface of electronic contents and self-developed databases; the electronic scientific contents are acquired either by national licence or individual subscription. Now it contains databases subscribed within the
frame of Electronic Information Service National Programme.
Full-text database of Hungarian literary works.


The Digital Literary Academy (DIA) was established in the spring of 1998. Its mission is to bring the outstanding works of the latest and contemporary Hungarian literature into the digital age by preserving, transmitting and promoting their values. It is a uniformly managed database where the best pieces of contemporary Hungarian literature and the enlarging collection of the present-day works of belles lettres considered as national treasures are available worldwide.
Database of pictorial documents.


Digital Archive of Pictures is the developed database of Electronic Document Center located in National Széchényi Library. It contains digital documents of Hungarian relevance which are interesting from educational, scientific and cultural points of view.
Full-text e-books covering some fields of science.


The growing subscription package contains a large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter, and is a strong complement for any academic collection. The breadth of information available by this package ensures that students and scholars will have access to information relevant to their research needs.
Its content covers the fields of arts, business, economics, education, linguistics and literary criticism as well as medicine, performing arts, philosophy, politology, religion, social sciences and mechanical engineering.
eBook Academic Collection can be used by yearly subscription with unrestricted accessibility to contents and with availability of unrestricted downloads by any number of simultaneous users.
The contents of the database are available with valid membership card authorizing to borrow. via the interface of EBSCOhost and EBSCO Discovery, even by remote use, too.
Full-text and bibliographical database containing more databases.


The content of the complex database is available with valid membership card (authorizing to borrow) in the branch libraries and the Central Library by access to internet; it is also available by remote access, from home.
What the Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library can offer:
- Academic Search Complete
- eBook Academic Collection
- e-Journals
- European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
- GreenFILE
- Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts /LISTA/
- Open Dissertation
- PsycArticles
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
- SocINDEX with Full Text
It searches in the databases of the library.


The content of EDS is available with valid membership card authorizing to borrow; the service can be used not only in the library but remotely as well.
Periodical database of some disciplines


Thousands of articles of electronic journals are available for users with valid subscriptions by EBSCO's SmartLinks technology which provides direct links to materials of publishers; the contents cover mainly scientific, technical and medical articles. Not all articles are available with full texts.
The database can be used with reader’s card authorizing to borrow.
E-books and journals in the field of education



The content of the database is available with valid membership card authorizing to borrow.
Access to legal contents of the European Union.


The official database of laws related to the EU. EUR-Lex provides online access to legal contents of the EU. The portal contains the official version of legal documents of the European Union and it is the most comprehensive law repository available in all the 24 official languages of the EU; it is renewed (updated) day by day.
Digitized documents of the archives of Europe.


The main mission of European Digital Library (Europeana) is to provide accessibility to documents digitized in the countries of the EU, brought together on a single platform and presented in a variety of ways relevant to modern users. The database offers free access to European cultural heritage from anywhere, at any time. „Europeana search” available on the main page of the library’s website provides the opportunity of direct search.
Full-text database of Hungarian periodicals.


The Electronic Periodicals Archive and Database (EPA) is the initiative of the Hungarian Electronic Library (MEK) aimed at creating a bibliographic database, registering e-periodicals of Hungarian relevance (by library requirement) and archiving some journals.
General encyclopaedia in English.


It is the most important encyclopaedia of English speech area, the online version of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
The content of the database is available with valid membership card authorizing to borrow.
Bibliographical database related to America.


It includes thousands of valuable primary source records covering the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples; valuable index for libraries and people that are interested in European publications concerning America (American states).
The source material is the result of the co-operation of EBSCO Publishing and John Carter Brown Library created on the basis of the appreciated bibliography „European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750”. The database contains more than 32 000 entries.
Sociological reference books and reference books of social sciences.


The database is the continuously enlarging collection of the most important foreign encyclopedias and reference books of sociology and social sciences.
The content of the database is available with valid membership card authorizing to borrow.
Full-text books from the fields of social sciences and belles-lettres.


Gondolat Publishers (Gondolat Kiadó in Hungarian) has been present on the Hungarian publishing scene for more than half a century, and today it is a significant participant of Hungarian book market; one of the country’s major independent publishing companies specializing in academic books and high-quality European and Hungarian fiction, producing about 90 new titles every year.
The content of the database is available with valid membership card authorizing to borrow.
Bibliographic database related to environment protection.


GreenFILE is a free research database covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government related titles and the ones of general interest include content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, among others. More than 380 000 records with indexation and abstracts, nearly 5000 records with full-text contents are freely available.
The content of the database is available with valid membership card authorizing to borrow.
Digitized documents of Hungarian humanities


The mission of HUMANUS is to make available and provide bibliographical data of the studies and articles of Hungarian relevance in the
field of humanities, from the beginning to present days.
Digitized documents of Hungarian archives.


The purpose of the Hungaricana project is to share Hungarian cultural heritage including contents that have never been accessible before.
Hungaricana Library contains the digitized holdings of public collections (museums, libraries, archives) with full texts.
Our goal is to create an environment where everyone, whether professional or amateur, can explore even their own history and culture as well as history and culture of Hungary (in a clean and efficient way).
Databases of public collections of more than 150 institutions are available for browsing and integrated searching.
Digitized documents of Budapest Collection in Hungaricana.



You can find the digital textual documents of Budapest Collection and digital copies of the publications printed as own editions of the library.
Bibliographic database of literature.


Full-text database of some fields of science.


JSTOR works with a diverse group of nearly 1,200 publishers from more than 57 countries to preserve and make their content digitally available.
The database provides mainly archived contents; newer, current issues of 2-5 years are not available. The most contents of JSTOR are published in English, but German, French, Spanish articles and contents in other languages are also offered.
Full-text books in the fields of belles-lettres, arts and more disciplines.


Full-text books mainly in the field of belles-lettres.


its up-to-date and quite important intellectual processes.
Full-text books in the fields of history, philosophy and political science.


Full-text database of bulletins.


Current and previous bulletins can be read and downloaded on the website of Magyar Közlöny Lap- és Könyvkiadó (https://www.mhk.hu/)
Full-text books in the fields of history, literary and local history, etnography and belles lettres.


Full-text books in the fields of history, social sciences and belles-lettres.


Full-text books in the fields of humanities and social sciences.


The material of the collection is sorted in more than 20 disciplines, available in forms to read and search freely.
Full-text database of Hungarian periodicals.


Bibliographical database related to library and information science.


Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) is a free research database for library and information science studies. LISTA provides indexing and abstracting for hundreds of core journals, books, research reports and lectures, including nearly 50 partly available journals and 125 selected journals; coverage dating back to 1960; this is the oldest database developed continuously in the field of IT. The collection covers several subjects such as bibliometrics, cataloging, classification, librarianship and information management, among others.
The content of the database is available with valid membership card authorizing to borrow.
Database of the contents of specialized periodicals by Hungarian publication.


The database of MATARKA provides the nation-wide free service covering the contents of scientific and specialized journals issued in Hungary; they can be searched in several different ways, and individual journal issues can also be browsed.
Reference books covering some fields of science.


several, more than 700 works; MERSZ comes with all the advantages digital books offer.
The service provides the following possibilities:
- Comfortable search options: simultaneous full-text search in all works, with an etymon function;
- Category choice: browsing documents based on themes, in several disciplines;
- Placement of bookmarks;
- Note taking and printing;
- Copying or printing of document parts, including even notes.
Art books, albums, catalogues, conference booklets, biographies.


Joint catalogue of National Document Supply System.


The database also supports the retrospective cataloguing being carried out by Hungarian libraries. It offers a standardised, user-friendly system designed to be used by both librarians and readers.
Full-text database of books of Hungarian relevance.


Full-text database of books of Hungarian relevance. Hungarian Electronic Library collects and preserves freely available electronic documents in Hungarian and related to Hungary and Central Europe in the fields of culture, education and academic research. Documents are collected from a variety of sources.
Bibliographic database of Hungaricums.


Digitised descriptive national bibliographies (available via the internet, too) concerning documents of Hungaricums, relevant databases and the ones published as e-journals are collected on an integrated (common) surface (platform), within the database of Hungarian National Bibliography.
Digitized documents of Hungarian archives.


As a collection available by the public, it publishes the digitized cultural contents of Hungarian museums, libraries, archives, private collections, NGOs, cultural and educational institutes on a common surface (platform).
Full-text books in the fields of history, ethnography, arts and belles-lettres.


One of the most famous Transylvanian book publishers that focuses on publication of books in the fields of history, ethnography, arts and belles-lettres.
The content of the database is available with valid membership card authorizing to borrow.
Middle English monolingual dictionary.


Full-text books in the fields of history, philosophy, religion, arts, social sciences and belles-lettres, Jewish sciences and holocaust.


Main objectives of the database are to collect, publish, popularize and follow what Hungarian Jews have produced in literature and in the arts, including Jewish Studies as well, so that the works survive and so that we may pass on this treasure chest to become part of both
the universal and Hungarian cultural memory.
The content of the database is available with valid membership card authorizing to borrow.
Works of cultural, literary and popular cultural value.


Full-text books in the fields of history and social sciences.


The content of the database is available with valid membership card authorizing to borrow.
Archive of Hungarian audiovisual contents.


NAVA is the digital legal deposit archive for locally-produced programmes of Hungarian television channels (M1, M2, M3, M4, M5 Duna, RTL Klub, TV2, ATV, HírTV, EchoTV) and radio stations (Kossuth, Petőfi, Bartók Radio). The archive covers TV films and series, audiovisual contents related to health and life-style.
The content of the database is available with valid membership card only in the library - in the Central Library and at more NAVA points.
News database of EBSCO


The Newswires database of EBSCO continuously provides near real-time accessibility to top news of the world by Associated Press, United Press International, CNN Wire and Business Wire news agencies. The index of the full text of EBSCO Newswires is stored in an archive available for 30 days; so, users can search for the news they are interested in clear back to previous 30 days.
The database can be used with reader’s card authorizing to borrow.
List of Hungarian public libraries.


Bibliographic database of dissertations.


The Open Dissertations database is free with records for more than 1.4 million electronic theses and dissertations from more than
320 universities around the world in order to help scholars with contents of historical and contemporary theses and dissertations. It provides references to users within the period of the beginning of 20th century and today; it is regularly renewed, so it is up-to-date and expanding.
The content of the database is available with valid membership card authorizing to borrow.
A complex business information system.


Full-text books in the fields of humanities, religion, arts, social sciences and belles-lettres.


Music lexicon in English.



Database of sociology relevance.



Database of specialized literature related to law and world politics.


The Database of specialised literature belonging to the Library of the Hungarian Parliament contains more than 500 000 items including the contents of the expanding Database of Hungarian Law (selected literature of Hungarian law covering book reviews, periodical articles and essays), the closed Database of Foreign Law and Database of World Policy Information.
Database of reference book publishers with full texts.


Several databases are subscribed by our library; the contents of those databases are available with valid membership card authorizing to borrow in all libraries and by remote access.
Here is the list (exceptions are indicated):
Academic Digital Archive
Argumentum Kiadó (Argumentum Publisher)
Attraktor Kiadó (Attraktor Publisher)
Balassi Kiadó (Balassi Publisher)
Gondolat Kiadó (Gondolat Publishers)
Kalligram Kiadó (Kalligram Publishers)
Kortárs Kiadó
Kriterion Kiadó (Kriterion Publishers)
Múlt és Jövő Kiadó
Napvilág Kiadó
Osiris Kiadó (Osiris Publishers)
Szent István Társulat ( ) - in all libraries; remote access is not available.
Tarsoly Kiadó (Tarsoly Publisher)
TIT Gondolat Kiadó (1957-1995)
Full-text books in the field of agriculture.


Works by one of the leading national publishers of social- and political science.


It is an ever-expanding value-added workshop, in which the various segments of Hungarian culture play a central role: from the history of the various media, theatre and cinema to gastronomy and sociography, it aims to enrich the world of Hungarian publishing with works that fill gaps in all fields.
Full-text books in the fields of humanities, theology, arts, social sciences and belles-lettres.


Bibliographic database of literature with sociology relevance.



It was available to search in Corvina integrated library system of the Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library from 2007.
Due to IT development, the content of the database can be searched independently on a new surface (platform) from 2018.
All in all, the search interface is known for users of the library catalog, unique elements are developed to help with effective data collecting.
Full-text Hungarian books of sociology history.



Database of monolingual Hungarian dictionaries, searchable by entries.


Etimology, synonym, antonym, old (or archaic) words, pronunciation, compound, explaining, proverb, foreign word, abbreviation.
It is published by Tinta Kiadó.
Full-text books from the fields of belles-lettres, arts and more natural and social sciences.


The content of the database is available with valid membership card authorizing to borrow.
Books dealing with history and related sciences, psychology and social sciences.


He publishes books on history and its auxiliary sciences (family research, genealogy, heraldry), local history, and economics related to the life of Hungarians in the 19th century but his books on church history, architecture, and psychology are also valuable.
The database contains the most important works in the field of linguistics in Hungary.


Full-text books covering some fields of science.


Registration is required for the use of the service.
After registration / logging in 25 percent of the books can be downloaded and printed.
Visual interviews concerning holocaust and other genocide.


A collection of visual interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides. The Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation allows users to browse and view more than 55,000 video interviews with survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides. Videos can be found in 44 different languages and they were recorded in 65 different countries. The database contains more than 1300 interviews in Hungarian and thousands of Hungarian-related interviews in other foreign languages concerning the Hungarian experiences throughout the Holocaust. The database provides information about the births and deaths of the relatives of interview subjects and people who have been mentioned in VHA-confessions.
On this website, the information pages of the partner associations ensure extended context about the histories and collection methods of all organizations that contributed to VHA.
The database also covers special content on the genocides in Ruanda, Guatemala, Cambodia, Rohingya and Armenia and also the massacre of Nanking, China.
The content of this database is available with a valid membership card with borrowing privileges.
Full-text Hungarian legal materials.


The database called Új Jogtár (New Law Collection) has been published by Wolters Kluwer Ltd.
The database can be used by limited number of users; it may occur that connection is not possible in a certain moment, so, it is worth trying again later.
The content of the database is available with valid membership card authorizing to borrow.
Digitized documents related to Budapest.



Specialist books on the arts, natural and social sciences, furthermore family, travel and gastronomy.

