Established in the year 2001, the Scientia Publishing House is the publisher of Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania. The Publisher’s scope of activity is in line with the mission as well as the educational and scientific development strategy of the University founded in the same year, its objective being to publish scientific books, manuals, and university textbooks in Hungarian in order to contribute this way to the development of higher education and the cultivation of science in Romania.
As a scientific publisher, Scientia issues its publications in several languages: Hungarian, Romanian, English, and other languages of international circulation. Scientia Publishing House produces both printed and electronic publications (e-books) provided with ISBN or ISSN codes and peer-reviewed by experts in the field. All books include tables of contents and abstracts in three languages (Hungarian, Romanian, and English).
As an academic publisher, the issues of SPH cover 6 areas of science: humanities, social sciences, economics and law, natural sciences, engineering sciences, and medical sciences. Since its establishment, the Publisher has put out a total of 242 books.
Scientia Publishing House issues the English-language scientific journal Acta Universitatis Sapientiae. Established in 2008, the academic journal has 12 series as follows: Mathemathica, Informatica, Alimentaria, Film and Media Studies, Communicatio, Economics and Business, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Social Analysis, European and Regional Studies, Legal Studies, Agriculture and Environment, and Philologica.
The above-listed series are included in a total of 61 different international databases. The year 2013 marks the start of a collaboration in the framework of which the university journal is co-published with De Gruyter/Sciendo publishing company.
The publisher issues four publication series:
You can order the publications in our online bookstore.
Electronic publications are available in Open Access, and can be downloaded from the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA REAL), while publications in the social sciences and humanities are available on the CEEOL (Central and Eastern European Online Library) website.
The Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania is the independent university of the Hungarian community in Romania, which aims at providing education to the members of our community and performing scientific research on a high professional level.
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