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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 2019The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), The Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres (NFU), The Dutch Research Council ...
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Visit ambassadors to the University Library Special Collections 18 December 2019Special visit of seven ambassadors of the Arabic-speaking world to the University Library
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Recap of Symposium on Tools Criticism and Public Lecture 28 November 2019On Thursday 21 November, Leiden University Libraries' (UBL) Centre for Digital Scholarship and the Leiden Centre for Digital Humanities organised a Sy...
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Who is the rightful owner of colonial art? 26 November 2019Colonial art and artefacts were not necessarily looted. Pieter ter Keurs, Professor of Museums, Collections and Society, calls for more nuance in the ...
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Leiden University Libraries expands graphic novel and comic book collections 26 November 2019Comic books and graphic novels are more important than ever in the Leiden University curriculum. That is why Leiden University Libraries (UBL) is curr...
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Collection of historian Johan Huizinga fully available online 19 November 2019The complete Johan Huizinga, the single most important historian of the Netherlands, is now available worldwide through the new Huizinga Online websit...
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‘Rembrandt has come home’ 04 November 2019Rembrandt Year is concluding with a major exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal. There are still numerous other activities such as lectures, the University...