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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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‘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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Call for Papers: Behavioural Approaches in International Law 27 February 2020Until recently, international legal scholarship has largely been premised on the assumption of rational action on the part of key actors in internatio...
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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...
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Digitised drawings and prints now available in Digital Collections 04 February 2020Leiden 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 programme 24 January 2020In 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 Republic 09 January 2020The 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 agreement 19 December 2019
The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), The Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres (NFU), The Dutch Research Council ...