From Monday 21 December onwards, the Reading Room Special Collections will be accessible only to Leiden University researchers and students relying on...

From 15 December onwards, The Netherlands is in lockdown. Due to the new coronavirus restrictions, changes have had to be made regarding the use of st...

Leiden University has adopted a new Open Access policy that will easily allow Leiden researchers to accomplish 100% Open Access of peer reviewed artic...

Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has received considerable funding from the National Library of Israel (NLI) and the Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Soci...

Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has made approximately 200.000 digitised books, maps, photographs and other materials available in Digital Collectio...

For years now, the debate around Black Pete in the Netherlands has been one of the most controversial topics in the public sphere. And the intensity o...

NWO has set up a new Open Science Fund aiming to support researchers to develop, test and implement innovative ways of making research open, accessibl...

Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has made more than 20.000 maps, atlases and topographical prints and drawings available in Digital Collections. With...

On 19 November 2020 it’s World Philosophy Day. We asked three staff members from the Leiden Institute for Philosophy to name three of their favourite ...

The United States seems to be embroiled in one of the most contentious electoral battles in its history. In fact, presidential elections have become e...

In the past few decades, LGBTQ+ acceptance has come a long way. In fact, more than fifty LGBTQ+ pride parades were held worldwide in 2019. Coming out,...

The 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to American poet Louise Glück (1942-). This means the Nobel committee passed by authors like Anne...

Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has digitized more than a thousand individual manuscripts and several complete archives from the post-medieval weste...

Leiden University Libraries (UBL) recently digitized circa 150 Yemeni manuscripts and has made them freely available for research and education. The m...

A collection of uncatalogued books from the Middle East is now available through the Leiden University Libraries’ (UBL) catalogue. The collection cont...