Publications

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Library

Task

It is an open scientific reference library of national authority, being the greatest among the similar libraries of the same or similar scope. The holdings represent nearly 381 000 items, publications and maps.
The collection of the Hungarian Geological Library is a cultural and science historical rarity that systematically has collected the geological literature and maps from Hungary and abroad since 1869. It provides its proceedings published since 1869 in exchange to similar institutes, scientific research institutes and universities operating all over the world. The exchanged material gives an overview on the geological literature abroad. About 4100 kinds of periodicals, books, conference proceedings, publications not in circulation arrived from 524 active partners. The collection of 381 000 items consists of books, periodicals, maps, manuscripts, translations, microfilms, and CD-ROMs.
The library catalogues are being built continuously. Topic search is possible in the ETO or in the subject catalogue.
In the TINLIB OPAC catalogue books, monographs and conference publications of the last 20 years can be searched. TINWEB is the online version, which can be accessed on the MAFI web-page: http://www.mafi.hu
Apart from the collaborators of the Geological Institute of Hungary and the Hungarian Geological Survey, the services of the library are used by employees of other institutes and companies as well as by university, college and high-school students. The number of registered readers in 2005 was 730 of which 301 were students or teachers. The number of documents used in the reading room was next to 30 000 items last year. Besides the traditional library services, there are online catalogues, databases and periodicals, that can also help topic- and information search. One of the most important databases is GEOREF, an American database for geological literature with more than 2.2 million records. It is available in CD-ROM updated every month.
According to an agreement between the Institutes library and the American Geological Institute, the library abstracts and sends 300 articles per year from the Hungarian geological literature to the GEOREF Database. The Hungarian version of this abstracted literature is the base of the Hungarian Geological Database, which can also be accessed on the web-page: http://www.mafi.hu

Opening hours:

Monday 9-15
Tuesday 9-15*
Wednesday 9-15
Thursday 9-15*
Friday 9-15

* reading room service only

Sales of Publications

The Geological Institute of Hungary publishes the results of its geological research from 1872 on.

Publications of the Institute

Annual Report of the Geological Institute
Annals of the Geological Institute
Geologica Hungarica Series Geologica
Geologica Hungarica Series Paleontologica
Special Papers
Methodological Papers
Geological Maps
Explanatory Books for Maps

Publications of the Institute and other geological books of some Hungarian Publishers can be bought in the library during opening hours.

Library Services

Reading room services are free of charge for registered readers.

We assist in using our library, our databases and in searching for bibliographical information.

Of the library items that cannot be borrowed, we make Xerox copies, at a price of

A4 page / 40 Ft
A3 page / 70 Ft

For special request, on the basis of orders in writing we accept tasks of topic-observation and topic-search.

For high-school, college and university students having a warranty, our library can make 30 pages of Xerox free of charge per year.

Contact:

1143 Budapest Stefánia út 14.
Tel.: 251-2678
Fax: 251-2678
E mail: library@mafi.hu
http://www.mafi.hu

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

Some relevant publications of the Geological Institute of Hungary

PRICELIST

Some examples of maps, explanatory notes (books) and publications for sale
The publications can be purchased:

Geological Institute of Hungary
National Geological Library
1143 Budapest Stefánia út 14.
H-1442 Budapest Pf. 106.

Tel./fax: +36 1-251-26-78
+36 1-251-09-99 / 130

E-mail:

library@mafi.hu

Maps and explanatory notes (1956-2005)

1:10 000 maps and explanatory notes
DOROG BASIN
MÁTRA
MECSEK
ENGINEERING GEOLOGY
1:20 000 maps and explanatory notes
BAKONY
1:25 000 maps and explanatory notes
BAKONY
TOKAJ HILLS
OTHER
1:50 000 maps and explanatory notes
Bakony
Balaton Highland
Börzsöny-Visegrád
Bükk
Nógrád-Cserhát
Tokaj
1:100 000 maps and explanatory notes
GEOLOGICAL MAP OF HUNGARY
REGIONAL MAPS
Balatonfő-Velence Hills
Bükk
Transdanubian Range
Szolnok
1:200 000 maps and explanatory notes
HUNGARY
GREAT HUNGARIAN PLIN
LITTLE HUNGARIAN PLAIN
OTHER
1:500 000 maps and explanatory notes
HUNGARY
1:2 500 000 map

Tectonostratigraphic Terrane and Paleoenvironment Maps of the Circum-Pannonian Region

Devonian-Early Carboniferous
Latest Carboniferous to Early Permian
Middle-Late Triassic
Middle Jurassic
1:3 000 000 maps and explanatory notes
HUNGARY
NEOGENE ATLAS
NATIONAL ATLAS
Written publications