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Open Access Week 2018: universities are making strides towards 100% Open Access 22 October 2018Open Access will be on the international agenda from 22 to 28 October 2018. Dutch Minister for Education, Culture and Science Ingrid van Engelshoven s...
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Symposium Rediscovered: new technologies on historical artifacts 18 October 2018Leiden University Libraries (UBL) would like to invite you for the symposium Rediscovered: new technologies on historical artifacts on Friday 16 Novem...
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Successful Asia Day on Indonesia 17 September 2018Leiden University Libraries is looking back at an exciting Asia Day with a focus on Indonesia: interview about the Dutch colonial war in Indonesia, a ...
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Acceleration of Open Access 04 September 2018
The Dutch universities are pleased with the announcement by the international group of research funding bodies (Science Europe) and the Netherlands Or...
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From coffee to Rembrandt: Surprisingly UB 31 August 2018Yes. We keep books. But the University Library offers so much more! 11 things that you might not expect from a University Library, but that you will c...
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Leiden University Libraries participates in international research project Mediating Islam in the Digital Age 16 July 2018An international consortium of research institutes, universities and non-academic partners in six European countries, including Leiden University, has...
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Touching Treasures An exhibition on the materiality of text and image 05 June 2018Books, manuscripts and images are of course made to be read and looked at, but they are also so much more. There is a world to discover in this new ex...
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And the winners are: 15 May 2018With support of several companies, including Brill Publishers and private foundations, Leiden University Libraries and the Scaliger Institute welcome ...
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Collection on the Italian occupation of Libya donated 01 May 2018UBL recently received a donation of some five hundred books on the Italian occupation of Libya and on Arabic linguistics. UBL gratefully acknowledges ...
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16th-century herbarium research 13 March 2018In March 2018 with the support of the Van de Sande Foundation Dr. Abdolbaset Ghorbani Dahaneh (Uppsala University) will research the sixteenth-century...
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Team UBLeiden wins audience award Hackathon Linked Open Data 12 February 2018Last weekend, Team UBLeiden won the audience award after a 24 hours Hackathon with Linked Open Data (HackaLOD)! The team volunteered to be locked up w...
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Opening of the 'Bob Wessels Collection' 01 February 2018Friday 26 January 2018 saw the festive opening of the Bob Wessels Insolvency Law Collection. This Collection is a most valuable addition to the presen...
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This was the Leiden Asia Year 18 December 20172017 was the Leiden Asia Year. Leiden has had connections with Asia and built up extensive knowledge of the continent over many centuries. This Leiden...
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Leiden University Libraries acquires remarkable medical manuscripts 22 September 2017Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been able to acquire four remarkable medical manuscripts partly thanks to support from the Friends of Leiden Uni...
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Two exhibitions with Asian maps of the university library 18 September 2017From mid-September two exhibitions with maps from the collections of Leiden University Libraries are on view. Mapping Asia opens in the National Museu...