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Corvinus University Budapest

The Central Library of Corvinus University of Budapest is an academic library aiming to provide excellent resources and services to support the learning, teaching and research activities.

Brief history

Corvinus University of Budapest, founded in 1948, is a leading university in Hungary. The institution reached its present form and size through a process of integration with other colleges and university faculties and now it operates on three campuses with seven faculties : Business Administration, Economics, Social Sciences, Public Administration, Food Science, Horticultural Science, and Landscape Architecture. The University offers undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programmes. Corvinus degrees are acknowledged on the EU labour market. The number of students fluctuates around 17 000 in the last four years. Corvinus University of Budapest is a member of CEMS (Community of European Management Schools) and it was also accepted to the PIM (Program in International Management) which is an exclusive worldwide organization of business schools.

Collections

The Central Library of Corvinus University of Budapest is an academic library aiming to provide excellent resources and services to support the learning, teaching and research activities at the University. The library serves the teaching staff and approximately 10 000 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students of the faculties of Economics, Business Administration and Social Sciences. It is also a public library with 18 000 registered users altogether. The print collection amounts to 440 000 volumes and around 400 periodical titles with a strong focus on economics and business. The core language is Hungarian, others are English, German, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish, etc. The library holds some special collections, namely the collection of old and rare books from the 17th, 18th and 19th century and the collection of the Library of the Budapest Chamber of Commerce and Industry established in 1850 – approx. 70 000 volumes dating back to the 19th and early 20th century. Electronic resources include such widely used aggregator services as Ebsco, ProQuest and Gale, bibliographic databases e.g. Econlit, Web of Knowledge, some publisher’s databases such as ScienceDirect, SpringerLink and Emerald together with JSTOR collections and special e-libraries such as OECDiLibrary.
The library moved to its current location in a new campus building in 2007. It occupies 4700 m² in a central position of the building and provides 630 study places altogether. There are four reading rooms, two computer labs, a newspaper reading room and an Economic History Research Library.

Institutional repositories

The library maintains three electronic repositories to make research and learning output accessible, that is Ph. D. Dissertartions, Corvinus Theses (graduate and undergraduate theses), and the Archive of the Institute of Business Economics. The ongoing project of setting up Corvinus Research Archive, the institutional repository of Corvinus University is coordinated by the library. The library is member of LIBER, EBSLG (European Business Schools’ Librarians Group) and COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories).