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‘I miss the smell of old paper in the vault’Curators 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 ScholarshipElsevier 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 CollectionsPart 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
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 solutionsUBL, 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 responsiblyGathering 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 educationLeiden 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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Adjusted opening hours for book pick-upAs of 24 March, Leiden University Library (UB) is only open from Monday to Friday, from 09.00 to 17.00 for pick-up of requested books and other materi...
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Coronavirus literature and databasesTo remove barriers for research and give better insight into what works and does not work in patient care, many publishers and content providers have ...
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Extra online resources during corona crisisDiscover temporarily free online resources
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Donation enables digitisation of Chinese unofficial poetry journalsLeiden University Libraries (UBL) has received a donation from Dr. Freerk Heule to digitise and publish an internationally unique collection of unoffi...
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Digitised drawings and prints now available in Digital CollectionsLeiden University Library (UBL) has made more than 20,000 digitised drawings and prints available via Digital Collections. This means that the core of...
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Oppression and Freedom - An Eye-opening New Special Collections thematic programmeIn its thematic programme ‘Oppression and Freedom’, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) explores views on identity, relations and the interaction betwee...
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Exhibition The Intolerant RepublicThe Dutch Revolt or Eighty Years’ War and the Dutch Golden Age have traditionally been described in the national historiography as glorious periods; w...
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Dutch research institutions and Elsevier reach framework agreementThe Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), The Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres (NFU), The Dutch Research Council ...