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In 1955 the Institute launched its own edition of
series under the title
’Dunántúli tudományos
gyűjtemény’
/
Transdanubian Research Collection/.
The
mainly small booklets of independent papers in an
average length of 20-25 pages contained studies
written mainly, but not exclusively, by the Institute's
staff. The quality of publications may be characterised
by the fact that some of them were peer-reviewed, and
all of them included Russian and German, and
sometimes French summaries as well.
The series,
while retaining the main title, later on thematically was
split into two subsets -
Series Geographica
and Series Historica. The books
published as the Institute's own publications were first printed by the Szikra
and then by the Mecsek Printing House in 500 copies. Later on - presumably
because of financial troubles – the offprints of the studies published in
Treatise
series were incorporated into ’
Transdanubian Research Collection’
series.
The
Transdanubian Research Collection
series was completed in 1972 with 120
published booklets. These publications were not sold through booksellers, they
were sent to domestic and foreign libraries on an exchange basis.
Other publishers also contributed to issuing larger-scale works of the
Institute's senior staff.
The Művelt Nép Könyvkiadó (Educated People
Publisher) published the book
: The History of Zsolnay Factory by
Lajos
Rúzsás
in 1954
and The History of Coal Mining in the Neigbourhood of Pécs
by András Babics
in 1952 was published with the assistance of the Hungarian
Historical Society.
In addition to publishers, the cities and counties of
Transdanubia also provided support to the publication of
the valuable books written by the researchers of
Transdanubian Research Institute.
Without being
exhaustive, here are some examples: Pécs City Council
Education Department
(The Turkish Pécs by Zoltán
Szabó Pál - Lajos Rúzsás, 1958),
the County Tourism
Office
(Baranya. edited by János Kolta, 1958),
the
Somogy County Council Department of Education
(The
Agriculture of Somogy County 1790-1848 by Klára T.
Mérey,
1962), Mohács City Council Education Department
(Ferenc Erdősi –
Antal Lehmann: The Geography of Mohács,
1974).