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...
The collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) not only hold academic material, but also many novels, collections of poetry, non-fiction works a...
The First Americans exhibition in the National Museum of Ethnology showcases the resilience and creativity of native Americans. Striking artworks, fas...
One of the main functions of a University Library is the preservation of documentary heritage. Not just to facilitate research and education, but also...
After large scale protests in the United States following police violence against black American citizens, racism in the Netherlands, too, is once aga...
Senior lecturer Rick Honings has been appointed Scaliger professor with effect from 1 July 2020. In the coming years his focus will be on promoting te...
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has made 45,000 digitised daguerreotypes, autochrome plates, photo prints, albums, cameras and other objects from it...
