124 search results for “interest” in the Library website
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Sharon van Geldere
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Bert Fraussen
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Caelesta Braun
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Simon Otjes
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Huge interest from prospective students (and their parents) on Bachelor’s Open Day
Presentations, city tours, themed cafés and information fairs − there was plenty to discover on the Bachelor’s Open Day last Saturday. Around 6,000 prospective students and 4,000 parents visited faculties in Leiden and The Hague to soak up the atmosphere and imagine how it would be to study at Leiden…
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Leiden University Research Data Management Community
All University staff involved or interested in research data management are invited to join Leiden University Research Data Management Community.
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Early Printed and Rare Books
What we now call ‘early printed books’ used to be ‘modern’ works in former centuries.
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Leiden Knowledge Centre for Photography
Leiden is a knowledge hub, unique in its kind in the Netherlands, for academics, professionals, students and all other people who are specialized or interested in photography. The city and university offer:
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Fellowships
The fellowship programs support researchers who are interested in doing research using the special collections.
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Tropical start to 55th edition of EL CID
Armed with sunglasses, a thick layer of sunscreen and several bottles of water, over 3,300 students have arrived in Leiden for their introduction week. The start of the 55th EL CID happened to be on the hottest day of the year.
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Rare Books
Some books have particular features such as design, unique illustrations and descriptive annotations. These features can be of interest for specific research.
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Workplaces for researchers
Are you a researcher looking to intensively use our library collections? Book one of our dedicated workplaces.
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Collections
The UBL develop collections which support the needs of faculty and students of the University.
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University and student life
During the year 2021 and 2022 Leiden University Libraries illuminated the rich past of its university and its students by organising the thematic programme "University and Student life". Several online exhibitions, boekensalons and public lectures were organised around this theme, especially for the…
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Manuscripts, Archives and Letters
The Western manuscript, archival and letter collections consist of books and documents written in Latin, Greek and Cyrillic script.
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Physics
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Physics.
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Remote access
Leiden University students, staff and (dual) PhDs can use the libraries' databases, e-books and e-journals both on-campus and off-campus.
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Research suggestions
The research suggestions below may be suitable for a bachelor's or master's thesis or can be used as additional source material in ongoing research.
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Drewes Fellowship
The G.W.J. Drewes Fund was invoked to celebrate the transfer of the scholarly legacy of Professor Drewes to the UBL and to mark the opening of the Asia Library in the University Library at the Witte Singel. The fund provides financial support to one or more fellowships at the Scaliger Institute. The…
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Film and Literary Studies
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Film and Literary Studies
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Islamic World Special Collections
The main focus of the Islamic World Special Collections is on the Middle East and North Africa, with smaller holdings from Indonesia, the Indian Subcontinent and Central Asia as far as Xinjiang, China.
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Copyright and your PhD thesis
You are a PhD candidate and the completion of your dissertation is approaching. What to do next?
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Life Science & Technology
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Life Science & Technology
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Bibliometric Data Sources and Indicators (online)
Research
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Workshop: How to write a Data Management Plan (DMP)
Workshop
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Workshop: How to write a Data Management Plan (DMP)
Workshop
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Japan Studies: Politics and International Relations
Overview of reference works, journals and website for research in Politics and International Relations of Japan
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Chinese Special Collections
The Chinese Special Collections are part of the Asian Library. Items can be consulted at the Special Collections Reading Room.
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Uitbreiding collectie UBL eigentijdse Marokkaanse literatuur
Een uitbreiding van de NIMAR collectie van de Universitaire bibliotheken Leiden.
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Uploading student theses
The Student Repository is part of Scholarly Publications Leiden University and offers an online archive that makes Bachelor and Master theses easily searchable and publicly available.
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Hebrew, Semitic and Armenian Special Collections
The Library of Leiden University holds c. 550 manuscripts and an extensive collection of rare printed books in Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, the languages of Ethiopia, South Arabic, Coptic and Armenian, as well as a collection of rare books on the Jewish World.
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Start a thesis
How do you pick a topic and research question for your thesis or paper? And is your schedule realistic? Check out the tutorials and resources below.
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Computer Science
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Computer Science
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Open Access books
Would you like to have your monograph published Open Access? This is becoming ever so attractive. Authors and publishers are increasingly discovering that online publication stimulates higher sales numbers of paper books.
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Agreements with publishers
Leiden researchers are entitled to take part in deals regarding Open Access that have been arranged with a substantial number of publishers.
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Korean Studies: General Subject Guide
This Subject Guide is designed to support students of Korean studies at Leiden University in their research process. For every step of the research process, this guide introduces a number of tips and recommended resources. You can find several sub-guides and contacts in the 'quick links' in the tab…
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Ancient Near East Studies
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Ancient Near East Studies. Last update: October 2020
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Donation enables digitisation of Chinese unofficial poetry journals
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has received a donation from Dr. Freerk Heule to digitise and publish an internationally unique collection of unofficial (minjian) poetry journals from China. These poetry journals are produced outside the official infrastructure for literature in China for literature…
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Experience the university and student life in the Leiden Special Collections
With the thematic programme 'Student@University', Leiden University Libraries illuminates the rich past of the university and its students. Several online exhibitions, boekensalons and public lectures will be organised around this theme, especially for the interested public, and various blogs, videos…
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Van de Sande Fellowship
The Van de Sande Fellow conducts research in the Special Collections of Leiden University Libraries, preferably in one of the areas of interest of the Van de Sande Foundation: the history of pharmacy, botany, medicine. In exceptional cases the fellowship is also available to researchers in the field…
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Elsevier Fellowship for Digital Scholarship
Do you have plans to conduct scientific research on the basis of the extensive digital collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL)? Then the Fellowship Program for Digital Scholarship sponsored by Elsevier is something for you.
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English Language and Culture
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in English language and culture.
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Training data management
The Centre for Digital Scholarship offers several opportunities for training on data management. Topics included are policies and requirements, sensitive data and GDPR, data sharing and consent, publishing and archiving data, Data Management Plans, FAIR data (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and…
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Searching scholarly information
Searching for relevant scholarly information can be a challenge. These tutorials can help you navigating the catalogue and other databases.
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Italian Language and Culture
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Italian Language and Culture
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Reading list - our favourites for the summer
The collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) not only hold academic material, but also many novels, collections of poetry, non-fiction works and even cookbooks. Is there still some space on your summer reading list? Take a look at the list below and borrow your book through the UBL.
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Anoma van der Veere did Japanese Studies at Leiden University
Alumnus Anoma van der Veere did Japanese studies and talks in this interview about his studies in Leiden and his work as a researcher at the Leiden Asia Centre and as Japanese correspondent in Tokyo.
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La Galigo manuscript - UNESCO heritage – digitally available
The La Galigo manuscript at Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been digitized. The manuscript, which was inscribed in 2011 on UNESCO's ‘Memory of the World’ Register, is now freely available online and can be used for teaching and research. La Galigo is the world's longest epic, written in the Buginese…
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Leiden University Libraries welcomes Antariksa as visiting researcher
Antariksa (Indonesia) is a researcher and co-founding member of KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He is the 2017 laureate of Global South(s) du Collège d'études mondiales/Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme fellowship, Paris, and currently Associate Fellow of the Institute of…
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Workshop Early Photography of the Middle East - In Contact with Collections
On Thursday, May 16, Leiden University Libraries is organizing a workshop on early photography of the Middle East. In the workshop, curator Maartje van den Heuvel shows photos of three adventurous Dutch nineteenth-century travel and photography pioneers. They created beautiful photos and photo albums…