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Journal collection of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Two-thirds of the journals are English, one-third is Hungarian. All of them are high-quality, peer-reviewed, scientific ones, most of them have impact factor. Some of the subjects are: business and economics, humanities, social sciences and law, mathematics and statistics.

Hungarian language e-book collection from the Publisher. The collection concentrates on human sciences, including economics, political science, sociology. 

The Bloomberg database offers financial data: real-time prices, fundamental data, graphical applications, financial-analysis tools and news from their own news agency and other providers. Data appear with 15-minutes delay. It contains also historical data. The university provides 16 double-screened Bloomberg terminals that are located in Library/FinLab (12) and in Sóház (4).

Bloomberg-terminals can be booked for individual research through Moodle, after logging-in find the application in the right lane:

Besides regular classes, other occasional individual timeslots are also bookable in Moodle.

BSC is a scholarly database focusing on business, economics, management topics. It includes not only full-text journal articles but also industry overviews and profiles, product reviews, company and country reports, case studies, SWOT-analyses, etc. Additionally, it provides Cited Reference Search and has a powerful subject-specific Thesaurus. The database is indexed by SuperSearch, but can also be searched separately.

The Portal is a searchable database of electronic doctoral theses held in European repositories. The theses listed are open access – publicly available, in full, without charge. DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. The DART-Europe partners help to provide researchers with a single European Portal for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs).

In this collection, you can find mono- and bilingual dictionaries. Represented languages are: English, German, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Chinese, Dutch, Latin, Slovenian, Swedish. Besides classical bilingual dictionaries, there are some Hungarian monolingual ones e.g.: Dictionary of Hungarian Language, Spelling dictionary, etc. Searches can be made in more dictionaries at the same time. As an extra you can check some specialized dictionaries, e.g. Technological Dictionary or Financial dictionary. Moreover there are some tests for intermediate language exams (English, German, French).

DOAB is a discovery service for peer-reviewed books published under an Open Access license. DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository. The database contains 17 scientific subject areas, among others Business and Economics.

Full-text, open access, peer-reviewed journals representing all science area.

This collection offers simultaneous search in the following 10 databases:

For details check the unique databases’ description. You can limit your search to a single or more databases if you tick the boxes in front of the databases and click Continue.

EconBiz is a virtual library in the field of economics and business studies. It is operated by ZBW German National Library of Economics. The service offers:

The database contains basic information and detailed account of registered companies in Hungary. Data are updated on a weekly basis and searchable free of charge. 

The Eurostat (Statistical office of the EU) website provides direct and free of charge online access to all of Eurostat’s statistical databases and electronic publications. The database is available in 3 different languages: English, German, French. It is updated twice a day and covers data for the following countries: EU, EU member states, euro area, candidate countries, and EFTA countries (European Free Trade countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland). It also gives a detailed explanation about statistics and helpful visualization tools. Corvinus University is a registered research entity, so users can access to microdata after submitting a research plan. More information is available here.

Hungarian language e-book collection from the Publisher. The collection concentrates on social science.

GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

Legal source for Hungarian and EU Laws in force. All Hungarian laws in force are available and some selected in German and in English. To access foregin language laws in force, please contact us at szolg@uni-corvinus.hu

Archive journal database on the following subjects: History, Education, Language & Literature, Business, Political Science. It contains nearly 700 core titles across 45 disciplines. Last 1-5 years (depending on the journals) is not accessible.
User guide.

Hungarian language ebook-collection with emphasis on history, political science, philosophy, social psychology.

Hungarian Official Gazettes from the Publisher in pdf. Current gazettes are mainly downloadable full-text, while at others only Table of Contens is available. Some former gazettes are also represented.

The access to KSH (Hungarian Central Statistical Office) statistical data (STADAT) is free of charge. The database contains all kinds of statistical data about Hungary from 1997. The homepage and the data tables are available in English. A lot of visualization tools (graphs, infographics, maps) help to understand statistical data. Corvinus University is a registered research entity, so users can access to microdata. More information is available here.

The Databank of the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies (KRTK Adatbank) offers access to their micro-level databases to support empirical research in Corvinus. Available databases are:

More detailed information about the databases’ content is available here.
To use the database submit your research plan (igénybejelentő adatlap) undersigned to KRTK_adathozzaferes@uni-corvinus.hu. It will be evaluated by the University. If accepted, it will be submitted to KRTK with other necessary documents.
Usage is restricted for Corvinus Faculty/Researchers, Corvinus Students (under the supervision of a Corvinus Faculty member).
Note: Research plan-form + other necessary documents are available only in Hungarian.

Mainly Hungarian language ebook-collection, including textbooks, in the field of Humanities and Social sciences.

Matarka is a Table of Contents database. It gives access for TOCs of scientific and technical journals published mostly in Hungary. Besides its basic function, it offers links to the periodical’s website and also for open access articles.

The Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law is a comprehensive, analytical resource containing peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of international law. This definitive reference work contains both the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) and the Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (MPEiPro).
MPEPIL is a major online reference work contains 1,700+ peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of the substance of international law.
MPEiPro maps and analyzes the systems and processes through which international law is made and adjudicated in practice. The Encyclopedia will eventually contain over 1500 entries.
Both are searchable on the same platform simultaneously.
Guided tour

This database offers Hungarian textbooks, coursebooks for higher education students.

Hungarian language e-book collection. Main topics are historical science (with emphasis on 20th century history) and sociology.

This database contains Hungarian or Hungary-related television films, radio programs, etc. NAVA is accessible free of charge for research and education purposes at so-called NAVA Access Points (affiliated educational institutions).

This legislation database contains Hungarian laws in force, repealed laws and laws which will be effective in the future. A secondary legal source, the official is Közlönyök Online (see it among the databases.) Besides the laws, it contains municipal ordinances, preambles, international contracts and translated legislations.

This is the dynamic online version of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Written by leading figures in the field including many Nobel prize winners. This is the definitive scholarly reference work for a new generation of economists. It contains more than 3000 entries and it is regularly updated.

Online library of OECD. Access to OECD-publications (books, journals, statistics) is free of charge to anyone. Corvinus’ subscription gives access to datasets, they are exportable and downloadable.
OECD iLibrary User Guide

ORBIS Europe is a comprehensive, global database that contains company information in a standardised format. It includes public and private, very large, large, small- and medium-scale enterprises’ data, among others, financial strength metrics, associated news, ownership structures, global M&A deals, etc. Our subscription is limited to 5 concurrent users. The database can be browsed without having an account but for data exporting an account is necessary. To get it, please drop an e-mail to szolg@uni-corvinus.hu with your name, job title and e-mail address. Using Orbis is recommended under Chrome.

Hungarian language e-book collection from the Publisher. Represented fields are: human and social sciences, higher education textbooks, literature  

Full-text journal database from OUP. CUB’s subscription contains Social Sciences Collection. This collection includes a selection in economics, business, finance, communication subjects.

Full-text journal database from SAGE Publisher. The university subscribes to the Social Sciences Collection which contains more than 1000 high-quality scholarly journals.

This database supports research by providing materials to guide users through the research process. It contains different document types (books, reference works, journal articles) and some unique tools, e.g. Methods Map, Project Planner, etc.

Full-text multidisciplinary journal collection tailored for the EISZ-consortium. Freedom collection (about 2500 titles) gives access to the current and four previous years of content, representing all fields of science.

Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scholarly literature (journals, book series, conference materials). It indexes all fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities. It is worth using primarily for checking citations and the position of researchers and institutions in the given field.

Pre-defined full-text ebook-collections from Springer publisher. Our subscription contains Economics and Finance 2017-2019, Behavioral Science and Psychology 2017, Political Science and International Studies 2017-2019.

Full-text journal database from the Publisher. It is a multidisciplinary database, relevant subjects for our university are: Business and Management, Economics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Political Science and International Relations, Social Sciences etc. Journals are accessible from 1997.

Full-text journal database from the publisher. This collection (Social Science and Humanitites) contains about 1500 journals. Main disciplines are: Business, Management & Economics, Politics, International Relations & Area Studies, Sociology & Related Disciplines.

Mainly Hungarian language e-book collection from Typotex Publisher, which offers higher education textbooks in the field of natural and social sciences.

International trade statistics from 1962. Visualization is supported by UN Comtrade Labs-function.
User guide

Free statistical database about Europe, North-America, Central Asia. It contains economic data, country profiles, country ranking, population and gender data, etc. Pre- and self-defined tables, charts are downloadable.

Web of Science database (from Clarivate Analytics) is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scholarly literature (journals, book series, conference materials). It indexes all fields of science. It is worth using primarily for checking citations and the position of researchers and institutions in the given field.
From 2021 InCites Analytics and Journal Citation Reports are also available.

Full-text journal database from Wiley Publisher. It contains about 1500 journals, access goes back to 1997. It is a multidisciplinary database, with emphasis on life, health, and physical sciences but all fields of science are represented.

WBIS Online is the most comprehensive biographical database available, providing biographical information on over 6 Million people from the 8th century B.C. to the present.

Zentralblatt MATH (zbMATH) is an abstracting and reviewing service in pure and applied mathematics maintained by the European Mathematical Society. It contains about 4 million bibliographic entries with reviews or abstracts currently drawn from about 3,000 mainly European mathematical journals.