The National Institute for Strategic Health Research (ESKI) operates a special library providing nationwide services to Ministry of Health staff, health policy makers, health professionals, health care managers and other health workers. The library also provides information to professionals working in educational and health care institutes, as well as users of community health information.
The library has a full range of collection of Hungarian publications on health policy and related fields, statistics, social and family affairs. Selected publications from the foreign literature in the above fields are also available.

Services

	Online catalogue (ORACLE-OLIB integrated library system). For your help: Menus of the online catalogue: - Search by title and/or name (Cím és szerző) - Search by keyword (Kulcsszó) - Search by subject (Tárgyszó) You may truncate using "%" character.
	The Health Policy Library is a national documentation centre and deposit library of the European Regional Office of the World Health Organisation.
	The library has a special collection of drugs literature and an other one of the documents of European Union.
	A central source catalogue of foreign journals and online databases available in all health and medical libraries in Hungary is published by the library.
	We have access to international literature databases including Medline, Proquest Medical Library, OECD, Cochrane, ScienceDirect, EBSCO.

Proprietary databases

	The Magyar Orvosi Bibliográfia (Hungarian Medical Bibliography) provides complete coverage of the Hungarian medical literature.
	Community Health Information is a database of articles, health care services and news from the lay media.

Other information

List of journals available in the library
    - Hungarian and foreign periodicals

Library use

The library is open without restriction to any Hungarian and foreign citizen over 16 and can be used in person, on the telephone/fax or via e-mail. The reading room is available for using the international and Hungarian periodicals and monographs on the premises. All the library materials can be used in the reading room.

Lending/borrowing Deadlines:
Books (maximum 4 volumes), CD-ROMs and/or videos (2 items): 1 month
A reader has got only six borrowed documents at the same time.

Not borrowable items:
    - Books from reference library (marked with red ribbon)
    - Periodicals (neither volumes, nor issues)
    - Statistics
    - Documents of the WHO

Photocopies of documents can be obtained upon request.

Requests for interlibrary loans are filled from the collection of our library and the associated libraries. We undertake the borrowing of foreign books or articles from international journals through the British Library.