On 21st June 2017, Yury Uraksin, First Secretary of the Russian Embassy in the Netherlands, presented the Illustrated Chronicles of Ivan the Terribl...
One of the tasks of Leiden University Libraries is to manage academic heritage, including letters and scholarly archives of leading researchers. Much ...
Historian Peter Frankopan has been appointed Visiting Scaliger professor at Leiden University for 2017. The holder of this chair is affiliated both to...
This year the Scaliger Institute received a record number of applications from domestic and foreign submitters for a fellowship to consult and researc...
Korea specialist Koen De Ceuster has combined 1200 posters from North Korea in one database. He believes the posters are extremely valuable for resear...
The universities in the Netherlands and Cambridge University Press (CUP) have recently concluded a three-year agreement guaranteeing 100% open access ...
The universities in the Netherlands and Oxford University Press (OUP) have been unable to able to reach a new agreement for access to academic journals.
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Leiden University has acquired previously unknown dummy material by Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990). These are sketch versions of the...
The exhibition ‘Sanskrit – Across Asia and Beyond’ tells the story of Sanskrit’s more than 3,000-year-long existence. It displays manuscripts and obje...
As Scaliger professor, Erik Kwakkel is responsible for the academic context of the complete Special Collections of the Leiden University Library. His ...
Antariksa (Indonesia) is a researcher and co-founding member of KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He is the 2017 laureate of Globa...
In November 2016 we conducted our third satisfaction survey among students and staff at the University. As a whole, the Library scored 7.5 - a good re...
On Thursday March 30 the Asian Library of Leiden University is opened by Rector Carel Stolker. The Asian Library is located on the roof of the Univers...
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has started the Maps in the Crowd project. Nearly 1,100 digitized maps of the Caribbean will be unlocked with the he...