Library

The Library of the Budapest University of Economics and Business is a dynamically developing center of knowledge which provides students, lecturers and researchers with the latest scientific resources and an inspiring environment for studying. The library’s extensive online and printed collection as well as its modern services enable fast and efficient research while supporting academic and professional development. Our goal is to provide you with the highest quality services which will support your success. The library provides space for independent studying, group projects, and also provides a place for various academic events and lectures.

We strive to be the inspiring educational, scientific, and cultural center of the University.

The BUEB University Library

The BUEB University Library is the largest service unit at our university.

The library’s mission is to serve the members of BUEB with extensive education, research, and academic activities, as well as professionals in academics and economics, whether it’s about research support, educational help, or a need for a place where one can sit down comfortably and chat, relax or study. The library also operates as a national, public academic library with regard to the subject of tourism and hospitality. The BUEB Library Network was established in 2000, its members were the three faculty libraries, namely the Library of FIMB, the Library of FCHT and Tourism Library and the Library of FFA. In the summer of 2025, the BUEB University Library was established with the merger of the three libraries. With the merging of the collections, the library can provide unified services to its members.

The University Library is a fundamental unit of the University with its services, information system, and professional, prepared staff.

Books, journals, dissertations, academic databases

VPN (remote access) information

Citizens of the university are able to use our subscribed databases from home through the VPN service, but this requires authorization. STUDENTS with active status can request access by filling out a registration form at: https://adatbazisok.uni-bge.hu

Students with passive or absolved status can request access by writing to informatika@uni-bge.hu Please include in the email the planned duration of the database usage!

You will receive feedback about your successful or unsuccessful registration to the email address stored in Neptun.

Lecturers and employees of the University can find the setup guide on Sharepoint.
https://unibge.sharepoint.com/SitePages/Hogyan%20int%C3%A9zd%20el%20(GYIK)/Informatikai%20%C3%BCgyek/egyeb/konyvtari-adatbazis-vpn.aspx

VPN setup guides for different operating systems for STUDENTS:

https://uni-bge.hu/en/create-a-vpn-connection-to-databases-subscribed-by-central-library

Subscribed databases (can be accessed remotely via a VPN connection)

Clarivate Analytics – Web of Science

The Web of Science is a bibliography database for searching for references and citations. It contains all the important journals, books, and conference proceedings from all scientific fields. It is primarily suitable for scientometric research and literature searches.

Elsevier – Scopus

One of the most comprehensive bibliographical databases in the world, used primarily for citation searches. Its content covers all areas of science. It can be used to find citations to individual researchers and to determine the position of individual research groups and institutes in the international scientific world.

Emerald – EmeraldInsight – Emerald Premier

The database contains over 300 journals with full text availability, all published by Emerald. It primarily covers certain areas of economics, among other subjects.

Springer Nature – Springer Journals (SpringerLink)

The Springer Nature publisher’s full-text multidisciplinary database which contains 9 million studies dating from 1997 to present day. The content is primarily prominent in the fields of engineering, natural sciences, and medicine, but social sciences and other fields of science are also represented.

UNWTO Elibrary

The World Tourism Organization’s database with tourism-related specialist books and statistical data.

Subscribed e-books (can be accessed remotely via a VPN connection)

Free online databases

Cambridge Core

One of the best universities in the world, you can search among the latest publications in almost every field of science, be it economics, art or political science. Only Open Access studies can be viewed!

CIA – The World Factbook

It is recommended to use it primarily for country studies. It contains up-to-date and detailed information, especially constantly updated statistics about the countries of the world.

DART-Europe - E-theses Portal

The database provides broad access to over 1,000,000 PhD theses from 585 European universities. In addition to doctoral theses, we can also read their theses in many European languages.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

The DOAB database contains approximately 75,000 freely accessible e-books from almost every scientific field, linking to open access books from the largest scientific publishers.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

The greatest value of the database is that we can search in 80 languages among the issues and articles of more than 20,000 quality journals in all fields of science.

EconBIZ

Books, articles and theses in the field of economics in German and English.

Europeana

The European Digital Library, which began operating in November 2008, aims to provide a common platform for accessing digitized documents from the countries of the European Union, and to make European cultural heritage accessible to its users free of charge, from anywhere and at any time.

Eurostat

We recommend using the electronic version of the free data set and publications of the Statistical Office of the European Union for all assignments and theses dealing with the European Union. The content of the database is available in three languages (English, German, French). In addition to the ready-made data tables, it is also possible to edit individual data tables.

IMF eLibrary

The database, which functions as the International Monetary Fund's electronic library, allows you to search the organization's publications and statistics. Its topics include finance, environmental management, sustainability, and individual industries.

JSTOR

The database covers every academic subject, which mainly contains various universities and publishers content (De Gruyter, Cornell University Press.)
Only Open Access studies can be viewed!

Taylor and Francis

All scientific fields are represented in the database, but articles on the subject of economy, environment, and sustainability are the most valuable.
Only Open Access studies can be viewed!

Worldbank – Open Knowledge Repository

An extraordinarily broad database on developing countries.

WTO Documents

Reports, statistics, videos, pictures and summaries from the fields of trade, globalization, logistics, environmental protection and many other topics.

Self-built databases

The BORY is the repository system of the Budapest University of Economics and Business, which stores and indexes all the educational and research materials and digital documents which were created at our institute. It also ensures share and usage of these documents both on national and international levels.

The BORY search engine can search simultaneously in the following archives of the BUEB repository system: BUEB Publications Archive, BUEB Dissertation Archive.

Search engine: BORY

Publication archive

BUEB Publication Archive

Database of publications, articles in journals and book excerpts that can be linked to the scientific and teaching activities of the institution, available in full-text format, and linked to the MTMT database.

Dissertation archive

BUEB Dissertation Archive

Database of dissertations written at the university. It can be searched by author, title, department, programme and specialization. A large number of dissertations can only be read in the library on designated computers.

Feedback

The University Library collects the opinions, complaints, and suggestions of university citizens via feedback form.

Services supporting the university’s academic activities

Providing print and online academic literature in the subjects taught and researched at the university,
providing access to the electronic content (publications, dissertations) created at the university through the BORY repository system,
ensure access to electronic content provided by the university (academic literature databases accessible from home via VPN),
supporting publication by screening for plagiarism, administering the identification of publications with international identification numbers (DOI, ISBN) and providing advice.
In order to achieve the above, the University Library continuously collects both book recommendations (I need a book!) The library provides research rooms for in-depth individual or group study sessions (make a reservation through the BUEB University Library website, under the Research Room Reservation menu, after logging in). The research rooms can be reserved in advance by the members of the library.
Librarians also provide methodological assistance, whether it's recommending journals, creating a data management plan, or explaining the steps of Open Access publishing.
Education is supported with various lectures and training about how to cite and create references, how to use databases, and how to research academic sources.
The "Reserve a librarian!" service allows you to request an appointment with the librarians of the University Library. At the given time, you can have a personal, 1-hour consultation on 3 topics: creating references, and research.