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Symposium The ‘Holy Land’ and Modernity: the Frank Scholten Collection in Context 21 November 2018Leiden University Libraries (UBL), the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO) and the Nederlands Fotogenootschap would like to invite you for ...
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Art student Clara Lezla wins logo design competition: 444 years of Leiden University 20 November 2018Leiden University celebrates its 444th anniversary in 2019, and a special age requires a special logo. The logo for the celebration was designed by Cl...
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Did Rembrandt paint Leiden Professor van Schooten? 06 November 2018Leiden Professor of Maths Frans van Schooten Jnr. (1615-1660) and his wife Margrieta were painted by Rembrandt. This is the claim made by mathematicia...
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Leiden University Libraries acquires major 19th-century photography collection on South East Asia 22 October 2018Leiden University Libraries (UBL) recently acquired a major collection of 19th-century photographs on South East Asia. The collection comprises more t...
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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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Deal Dutch Universities and Wolters Kluwer Nederland on Open Access 25 June 2018Wolters Kluwer and the Dutch Universities have reached an agreement about Green Open Access as part of a contract dealing with legal en fiscal literat...
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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...