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Deal Dutch Universities and Wolters Kluwer Nederland on Open AccessWolters Kluwer and the Dutch Universities have reached an agreement about Green Open Access as part of a contract dealing with legal en fiscal literat...
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Volunteers are helping to make historical atlases of Asia digitally availableLeiden University Libraries (UBL) are launching Maps in the Crowd – Atlases, a project that welcomes participation from the public to make accessible ...
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Touching Treasures An exhibition on the materiality of text and imageBooks, manuscripts and images are of course made to be read and looked at, but they are also so much more. There is a world to discover in this new ex...
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And the winners are:With support of several companies, including Brill Publishers and private foundations, Leiden University Libraries and the Scaliger Institute welcome ...
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Collection on the Italian occupation of Libya donatedUBL recently received a donation of some five hundred books on the Italian occupation of Libya and on Arabic linguistics. UBL gratefully acknowledges ...
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National Library of the Republic of Indonesia and Leiden University Libraries sign letter of interestOn 23 April Muhammed Syarif Bando, director of the National Library of the Republic of Indonesia and Kurt De Belder, University Librarian & Director ...
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Council of State donates Netherlands Indies law collection to University of LeidenThe ‘Netherlands Indies Collection’ of the Library of the Council of State was officially transferred to Leiden University on Friday 20 April. Rector ...
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Beyond Content: Experience objects from the special collectionsLeiden University Libraries has started the programme ‘Beyond Content’ in which attention will be devoted to the materiality of text and image. Throug...
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16th-century herbarium researchIn March 2018 with the support of the Van de Sande Foundation Dr. Abdolbaset Ghorbani Dahaneh (Uppsala University) will research the sixteenth-century...
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African Studies Centre Library participates in book delivery systemAs of February 19th 2018 the African Studies Centre Library will participate in the book delivery system of the Leiden University Libraries. Borrowers...
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Team UBLeiden wins audience award Hackathon Linked Open DataLast weekend, Team UBLeiden won the audience award after a 24 hours Hackathon with Linked Open Data (HackaLOD)! The team volunteered to be locked up w...
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Leiden Panji manuscripts are digitised thanks to support from the publicThe unique collection of Panji manuscripts held by Leiden University Libraries (UBL) will be digitised thanks to support from the public. A sum of 9,8...
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Opening of the 'Bob Wessels Collection'Friday 26 January 2018 saw the festive opening of the Bob Wessels Insolvency Law Collection. This Collection is a most valuable addition to the presen...
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