Library of Centre for Social Sciences Hungarian Academy of Sciences

  • Head of the Library: Judit Elek 

  • Address: Budapest I. Országház street 30.

  • Postal Address: 1250 Budapest, P.O. Box 20.

  • Phone: +36 1 224-67-59 / +36 1 224-67-00 (extension 448)

  • Opening hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Friday: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

  • Web and Catalogue: http://hunteka.titkarsag.mta.hu/etk/index.jsp?lang=en

Services of the library:

The library is the integrated library of the 4 research units of the Centre for Social Sciences.

The library is not a public library, only the researchers of the Centre are entitled to make use of the services of the library. It offers interlibrary loans to other research centres of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. University lecturers and students are entitled to make use of the services of the library upon particular permission based on the fact that the special required works (e.g. ACEEEO special election collection) are accessible exclusively in the rooms of the library.

The catalogues of the library can be found on two simultaneously working websites.

The following databases are accessible in the library as well as on the desktop computers of the researchers.

  • the EISZ databases taken by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (JSTOR, journals of the Academy, Web of Science) via the option ’Belépés jelszó nélkül’ on the following source


EISZ
 

  • the EBSCO database taken by the Centre for Social Sciences (containing Political Science Complete, SocINDEX with Full Text, Legal Source) via the option ’Belépés jelszó nélkül’ on the following source


EBSCO
 

  • the COMPLEX  legal database and the trilingual collection of the Hungarian Laws (háromnyelvű Hatályos Magyar Jogszabályok) are accessible only in the library.

Since 1 January 2015 the desktop computers have free access to the HEINONLINE database.