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Touching Treasures: The History of PhotographyDue to an overwhelming amount of enthusiasm for Touching Treasures: The History of Photography, another workshop will be organised on 13 May 2019, fro...
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Symposium — New Perspectives on Chinese WritingPseudo-writing on Delftware, naive scribbles by young monks, the “withdrawn withdrawal” of the character script, calligraphy on the pavement: on Monda...
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Book Presentation - Bookshop of the World by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der WeduwenOn Wednesday 27 March, 17.00 - 18.30, Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen will present their book: 'The Bookshop of the World. Searching for marke...
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Leiden researchers make their publications more findable via ORCIDIn 2018, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has worked on a project in which all researchers affiliated with Leiden University were encouraged to creat...
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eLaw researchers publish book on EU data protection lawResearchers from eLaw, the Center for Law and Digital Technologies, published a new book on EU data protection law.
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Leiden University researchers give open access another boostOn 15 March, the Centre for Digital Scholarship at Leiden University Libraries has started the pilot ‘You share we take care’. In cooperation with Lei...
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‘De Bijzondere Band’ – An exhibition of Dutch Art Nouveau book bindings‘Huis van het Boek/Museum Meermanno in The Hague exhibits book bindings by leading Dutch Art-Nouveau artists from the period 1890-1910. The exhibition...
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Dutch Rectores Magnifici publish own work as Open AccessThe latest scientific articles by the Rectores Magnifici of Dutch universities will soon be freely available online. They aim to set a good example to...
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Large expansion of contemporary Moroccan collectionsThe Netherlands Institute in Marocco (NIMAR) has recently added more than 1000 titles to the Leiden University Library (UBL) collection at our locatio...
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Already hundred course reserves requestedSince the UBL introduced a new and improved service for requesting course reserves last summer, many lecturers have used the new service. Today, the U...
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Leiden University celebrates 444th birthday with residents of Leiden and The HagueLeiden University celebrated its 444th anniversary with a historical procession on 8 February. It celebrated this year’s Dies Natalis in time-honoured...
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How Leiden University celebrated its first day in 1575Lifelike gods, provisional professors and the city militia with weapons a clanking. Leiden put on a colourful procession and drummed up hundreds of ci...
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Dutch universities give Open Access another boostThe Dutch universities will give Open Access an extra boost from 2019 by starting a pilot titled ‘You share, we take care’ to make publications availa...
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Interlibrary Loan renewedDo you use our Interlibrary Loan Service to obtain books, chapters and/or articles from another library? From 28 January we will be moving on to a new...
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Minerva’s Metamorphoses An exhibition celebrating 444 Years of Leiden UniversityThe exhibition Minerva’s Metamorphoses organized by Leiden University Libraries (UBL) celebrates the University’s fascinating history. The 444th anniv...