The Library will be closed from December 24, 2016, to January 1, 2017. The Archives of the Academy will be closed from December 22, 2016, to January 1, 2017.
In addition, we would like to call the attention of our patrons to the following information regarding the hours of operation before the upcoming holiday season.
December 23, 2016, Friday: The Library's Main Reading Room will be open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The Special Collections will close at 12:00 a.m.
January 2, 2017, Monday is the first day of normal operation in the New Year.
Information | 2016. 12. 16.
Hours of operation on Thursday, December 15th
On December 15, 2016, the Library's Main Reading Room, the Special Collections and the Archives of the Academy will be closed from 13:30 p.m
We apologize for any inconvenience caused!
Information | 2016. 12. 07.
Maintenance at the Library's entrance
The maintenance will be from Tuesday, December 1 to Saturday, December 3. Due the maintenance the Library is normal operation.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused!
Information | 2016. 12. 01.
Hours of operation on Friday, November 11th
On November 11, 2016, the Library's Main Reading Room will be open from 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., the Special Collections and the Archives of the Academy will be closed.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
Information | 2016. 11. 08.
The New York Times trial access
The Library has been granted trial access to The New York Times until December 15, 2016.
The database is accessible from within our IP-range.
Patrons are kindly requested to send feedback to our staff.
The databases are accessible from within our IP-range.
Patrons are kindly requested to send feedback to our staff.
Services | 2016. 11. 02.
Hours of operation for late October and early November
The Library will be closed from October 31 to November 1, 2016.
Information | 2016. 10. 27.
Network device maintenance
Due to maintenance, internet access at the Library will be unavailable on Tuesday, October 18, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
Information | 2016. 10. 15.
Hours of operation on Saturday, October 15th
On October 15, 2016, the Library's Main Reading Room will be open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.,
the Special Collections will close at 1:30 p.m., the Archives of the Academy will be closed.
Due to modernization and reconstruction works performed on our local area network, the Library's Main Reading Room and Digital Reading Room will be closed on April 20, 2016.
The Archives of the Academy, the Department of Manuscripts & Rare Books, and the Oriental Collection will be open from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Information | 2016. 04. 14.
EBSCOhost eBooks trial access
The Library has been granted trial access to two electronic databases of EBSCOhost until April 30, 2016.
eBook Academic Subscription Collection™ eBook University Press Collection
The databases are accessible from within our IP-range.
Patrons are kindly requested to send feedback to our staff.
Services | 2016. 03. 31.
Combining material sciences with traditional philology to enhance our understanding of the creation and history of a manuscript
Manuscript Kaufmann A50 of the Mishna is one of the most famous manuscripts in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
It is particularly famous for its vocalization that was prepared following the consonantal text of a different manuscript as the countless differences demonstrate. But where and when was the vocalization made? Paleography can only date and localize consonants, not Tiberian vowels. It is agreed that the vocalizer was not one of the two main scribes of the consonantal text. Can we correlate the vowels to one of the numerous scribes that wrote marginal annotations and corrections and then use paleography to provenance it? As we have hundreds of marginal annotations in dozens of different scripts, optical comparison of the ink color alone is not sufficient.
An XRF-ink analysis gives a much more precise estimation of the elemental composition of the different ink types used. This will also help to correlate different annotations and corrections in the margins and the main text or to decide whether this or that correction in the main text was written in the same ink as the main text or not.
Ira Rabin and Oliver Hahn, the very experienced team from the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung in Berlin and the Center for the Study of Manuscript Cultures in Hamburg are performing this analysis in conjunction with the palaeographers Judith Olszowy-Schlanger and Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra from the École pratique des hautes études in Paris.
The databases are accessible from within our IP-range.
Patrons are kindly requested to send feedback to our staff.
Services | 2016. 03. 10.
Hours of operation for March
We would like to call the attention of our patrons to the following information regarding the hours of operation in March.
March 4, 2016: The Library's Main Reading Room will be open from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. The Archives of the Academy and the Special Collections will close at 4:00 p.m.
March 5, 2016: The Library's Main Reading Room will be open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The Archives of the Academy and the Special Collections will close at 1:30 p.m.
March 14–15, 2016: The Library will be closed.
March 26–28, 2016: The Library will be closed.
Information | 2016. 03. 03.
ProQuest trial access
The Library has been granted trial access to two electronic databases of ProQuest, PQ Central and PQ SciTech, until May 1, 2016.
The databases are accessible from within our IP-range.
Patrons are kindly requested to send feedback to our staff.
Services | 2016. 02. 11.
BrillOnline
From February 10, 2016, the Library offers access to three electronic databases of Koninklijke Brill NV.
eBook Academic Subscription Collection™
