• 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. 
  

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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

Current and previous bulletins can be read and downloaded on the website of Magyar Közlöny Lap- és Könyvkiadó (https://www.mhk.hu/)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

The content of the database is available with valid membership card authorizing to borrow.

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.

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.