With support of several publishers and private foundations, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) and the Scaliger Institute welcome around 15 to 20 Fello...
Close to twenty thousand pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry journals from China in the Leiden Digital...
The war against Ukraine did not start in February 2022, but in the spring of 2014 when Russia suddenly annexed Crimea and supported separatist militia...
A flamboyant politician, a divisive figure in the Dutch political landscape and a 'man of the people' who presented himself as an unconventional minis...
Users of the Walaeus Library: welcome to the Leiden University Libraries website!
As people spend ever more time in cyberspace, so do criminals. The more reliant we become on digital technology, the more vulnerable we are to hackers...
Two Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) have been placed in front of the University Library in memory of the Jewish Cosman family. At the time of the Sec...
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been able to acquire an exceptional two-volume Miao album. The acquisition was made possible by the Rombouts Fun...
Early 2022, the UKB consortium renewed a number of 'read and publish' contracts with major publishers.
Love. It makes people do the strangest things and at the same time it is a primary necessity of life. Over the centuries, writers and poets have fille...
The Lingling Wiyadharma Fellowship program offers the opportunity to three scholars to spend up to three months conducting research using the Southeas...
Leiden University Libraries has been elected to the Executive Committee of the IIIF Consortium. The term of office is two years starting from January ...
On 31 January 2020, the United Kingdom officially left the European Union. New regulations, agreed upon by both parties took effect on 1 January 2021....
Starting January 18, the online exhibition Images of the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945-1949 can be viewed via the UBL website. The exhibition i...
At the press conference on 18 December, the Dutch government has announced additional corona measures. These measures will not affect Leiden Universit...
