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Digitised photos, daguerreotypes, and slides now available in Digital Collections 12 June 2020Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has made 45,000 digitised daguerreotypes, autochrome plates, photo prints, albums, cameras and other objects from it...
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Pilgrims came to Leiden for ‘brain training’ 04 June 2020The Pilgrims to America exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal inspires reflection. How far do you go in the quest for freedom? It focuses on the Pilgrims’ ...
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NWO Fund for Open Access Books 02 June 2020As of 1 June 2020, NWO will make 500,000 euros a year available for the Open Access publication of books resulting from funded projects.
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Announcement of Scaliger Institute research fellowship winners 26 May 2020With support of several companies, including Brill Publishers and private foundations, Leiden University Libraries and the Scaliger Institute welcome ...
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New English translation of Huizinga’s Autumntide of the Middle Ages (Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen) 19 May 2020Leiden University Press presents a new now unabridged, richly illustrated edition of Huizinga's famous study of forms of life and thought of the fourt...
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Dutch research institutions and Elsevier initiate world’s first national Open Science partnership 19 May 2020VSNU, NFU, NWO and Elsevier have agreed publishing, reading and open science services to support Dutch research and innovation ambitions.
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Limited access to Reading Room Special Collections for Leiden University researchers 30 April 2020From Wednesday 6 May onwards, the Leiden University Library (UB) Reading Room Special Collections will provide limited access to Leiden University re...
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‘I miss the smell of old paper in the vault’ 28 April 2020Curators devote a lot of attention to their collections. How is Martijn Storms, curator of maps and atlases at Leiden University Libraries, managing t...
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Elsevier and Leiden University Libraries extend Fellowship Programme for Digital Scholarship 15 April 2020Elsevier has extended its co-operation with Leiden University Libraries’ Centre for Digital scholarship and the Scaliger Institute for two more years ...
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Digitised manuscripts, old prints, photos and maps of Southeast Asia available in Digital Collections 09 April 2020Part of the Leiden University Libraries’ (UBL) collections on Southeast Asia is now available in digital form for research, educational purposes and t...
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Library staff aim to maintain services and collections 07 April 2020
The people behind the Leiden University Libraries aim to maintain the level of their services to clients as much as possible. They are making thankful...
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Library comes up with creative solutions 31 March 2020UBL, Leiden University Libraries, is doing all it can to continue to offer its services. Even now the motto is, ‘work from home’. Who is doing want an...
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Fighting corona starts with sharing data responsibly 30 March 2020Gathering and distributing patient data can make an important contribution to containing the coronavirus. But if we want to be successful, we need bet...
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Course reserves now available for education 26 March 2020Leiden University teachers that have requested course reserves for students at Leiden University Libraries (UBL), or have made books non-lendable for ...
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Donation enables digitisation of Chinese unofficial poetry journals 21 February 2020Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has received a donation from Dr. Freerk Heule to digitise and publish an internationally unique collection of unoffi...