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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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Cooperation between the National Library of Indonesia and Leiden University Libraries is taking shape 03 December 2019The Panji manuscripts held by the National Library of Indonesia and Leiden University Libraries (UBL) will be digitised and exchanged thanks to a coop...
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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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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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Your opinion of the library counts! 04 November 2019What do you think of our libraries, the (digital) collections, services and the library staff? The Leiden University Libraries (UBL) would like to know!
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Piloting FAIR metadata with iRODS and YODA at Leiden University 01 November 2019The FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) principles are a framework for researchers to make their scholarly output ready for use an...
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75% of Leiden University publications now Open Access available 21 October 2019Researchers of Leiden University (excl. LUMC) are collectively using the Leiden Repository to make their publications Open Access available. They have...
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Public Lecture ‘The Role of the Humanities in an Information Age’ by Ted Underwood, Visiting Scaliger Professor 18 October 2019Leiden University Libraries invites you to the public lecture by Ted Underwood, Visiting Scaliger Professor. This lecture will be held on Thursday 21 ...
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Donation Oral History Archive by Chinese Indonesian Heritage Center 17 October 2019The Chinese Indonesian Heritage Center (CIHC) has donated the Oral History Archive to Leiden University Libraries (UBL). CIHC chair Dr Patricia Tjiook...
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Symposium on Tools Criticism 07 October 2019
The Centre for Digital Scholarship of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) and the Leiden Centre for Digital Humanities would like to invite you to the s...
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New community platform to create shared knowledge around ancient texts 19 September 2019The Leiden Papyrological Institute, Leiden University’s Faculty of Humanities, the Centre for Digital Scholarship at Leiden University Libraries and t...