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‘Behaviour comes to us in big data’ 15 August 2017Jurist Gineke Wiggers wants to predict the expected impact of legal articles. Carel Stolker, Rector of the University and, like Wiggers, a legal speci...
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La Galigo manuscript - UNESCO heritage – digitally available 27 July 2017The La Galigo manuscript at Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been digitized. The manuscript, which was inscribed in 2011 on UNESCO's ‘Memory of t...
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Donation photo archive of Volkskrant Journalist and Photographer Hans Beynon 18 July 2017Can you still remember the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984, or the Dutch royal state visit to Indonesia in 1971? These are only a few of the dr...
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Closer collaboration NINO with Leiden University and the National Museum of Antiquities 28 June 2017The board of the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO) has agreed on June 27 on a plan for closer collaboration with Leiden University and th...
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Russian Embassy presents the Illustrated Chronicles of Ivan the Terrible 22 June 2017On 21st June 2017, Yury Uraksin, First Secretary of the Russian Embassy in the Netherlands, presented the Illustrated Chronicles of Ivan the Terribl...
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Archiving email of leading scholars 20 June 2017One of the tasks of Leiden University Libraries is to manage academic heritage, including letters and scholarly archives of leading researchers. Much ...
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Historian Peter Frankopan Visiting Scaliger professor 12 June 2017Historian Peter Frankopan has been appointed Visiting Scaliger professor at Leiden University for 2017. The holder of this chair is affiliated both to...
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Record number of applications for fellowships at Scaliger Institute 09 June 2017This year the Scaliger Institute received a record number of applications from domestic and foreign submitters for a fellowship to consult and researc...
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1200 North Korean posters in one database 08 June 2017Korea specialist Koen De Ceuster has combined 1200 posters from North Korea in one database. He believes the posters are extremely valuable for resear...
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100% Open Access agreement with Cambridge University Press 22 May 2017The universities in the Netherlands and Cambridge University Press (CUP) have recently concluded a three-year agreement guaranteeing 100% open access ...
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Five years of Leiden Law Blog 18 May 2017The Leiden Law Blog is celebrating its first anniversary. The blog attracts many visitors and scores well in Google. Tips for bloggers: link to previo...
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No agreement between VSNU and Oxford University Press 18 May 2017The universities in the Netherlands and Oxford University Press (OUP) have been unable to able to reach a new agreement for access to academic journals.
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Open Up: How to publish Open Access 17 May 2017
Publish Open Acces in high quality journals.
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Sanskrit across Asia and Beyond 11 May 2017The exhibition ‘Sanskrit – Across Asia and Beyond’ tells the story of Sanskrit’s more than 3,000-year-long existence. It displays manuscripts and obje...
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Erik Kwakkel confesses his love of Medieval books 09 May 2017As Scaliger professor, Erik Kwakkel is responsible for the academic context of the complete Special Collections of the Leiden University Library. His ...