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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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Limited access to Reading Room Special Collections for Leiden University researchers 30 April 2020From Wednesday 6 May onwards, the Leiden University Library (UB) Reading Room Special Collections will provide limited access to Leiden University re...
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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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Adjusted opening hours for book pick-up 24 March 2020As 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 databases 23 March 2020To 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 crisis 20 March 2020Discover temporarily free online resources
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Limited library services due to coronavirus 13 March 2020Until further notice, Leiden University will be partially closed due to the coronavirus. Library services at Leiden University Libraries (UBL) have th...
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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...