ELDORADO has the following main objectives: providing digital content in a legitimate way and digitally ”resuscitating” publications which are either out of circulation or just lie idle on the shelves of libraries. With the establishment of an e-library, which is in line with the digital collections of other European libraries, we aim at creating a comprehensive information and knowledge base which is based on 21st-century technology.
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On April 29, 2015, National Széchényi Library launched its new service commonly known as ELDORADO, which is the Hungarian abbreviation for the National System, Database and Document Library of Electronic Document Supply (ELektronikus Dokumentumküldés Országos Rendszere, Adatbázisa és DOkumentumtára).
ELDORADO has the following main objectives: providing digital content in a legitimate way and digitally ”resuscitating” publications which are either out of circulation or just lie idle on the shelves of libraries. With the establishment of an e-library, which is in line with the digital collections of other European libraries, we aim at creating a comprehensive information and knowledge base which, meeting the completely altered demands, is based on 21st-century technology.
Thanks to our new service, you can order digital copies of documents belonging to the collection of NSZL from the comfort of your home.
In the introductory phase following the launch of ELDORADO, you can order primarily public domain documents. We take on digitizing five pieces of documents per user, free of charge. (In order to get information about what kind of document is to be regarded as public domain, you are kindly requested to consult the home page of our service at eldorado.oszk.hu [2]). You can have access to digitized public domain documents from home.
Digitized copyrighted content, in case of which we have not yet received permission from the copyright-owner, will be made available, for the time being, only in the building of National Széchényi Library, on our dedicated workstations. This is something we have to do in order to meet regulations worded in Copyright Law. Currently, our staff is working on further increasing the number of copyrighted documents, including identified and serviceable orphan works, which can be accessed from a remote location.
Within the framework of our new service, you can order a digital copy of documents which can be found in NSZL (or in the collections of other libraries). In line with that, as of May 5, 2015, the Reprographic Service of National Széchényi Library stopped providing digital copies of documents. With such queries, you are kindly requested to turn to our ELDORADO service.
From now on, NSZL’s Reprographic Service will provide only paper-based copies [3] of documents belonging to the General Collection of the Library. Rules and regulations related to stock preservation will be kept at all times.