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Document discovered about Rembrandt's student years in Leiden 04 June 2019
A previously unknown document about Rembrandt’s student years in Leiden has been found in the archive of Leiden University. The document, which is bei...
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New Rembrandt Route takes in seven Leiden University buildings 13 May 2019
Seven large reproductions of works by Rembrandt on seven Leiden University buildings reveal the relationship between the painter and the University. R...
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Web-archiving and digital archives: Chinese communities in the Netherlands and Indonesia 26 April 2019
On May 15th, from 15.15 to 17.00 in the Vossiusroom, Leiden University Libraries will host a program on web-archiving and digital archives of Chinese ...
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Touching Treasures: The History of Photography 10 April 2019
Due to an overwhelming amount of enthusiasm for Touching Treasures: The History of Photography, another workshop will be organised on 13 May 2019, fro...
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Book Presentation - Bookshop of the World by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen 25 March 2019
On Wednesday 27 March, 17.00 - 18.30, Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen will present their book: 'The Bookshop of the World. Searching for marke...
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Leiden University researchers give open access another boost 18 March 2019
On 15 March, the Centre for Digital Scholarship at Leiden University Libraries has started the pilot ‘You share we take care’. In cooperation with Lei...
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‘De Bijzondere Band’ – An exhibition of Dutch Art Nouveau book bindings 14 March 2019
‘Huis van het Boek/Museum Meermanno in The Hague exhibits book bindings by leading Dutch Art-Nouveau artists from the period 1890-1910. The exhibition...
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Dutch Rectores Magnifici publish own work as Open Access 11 March 2019
The latest scientific articles by the Rectores Magnifici of Dutch universities will soon be freely available online. They aim to set a good example to...
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Large expansion of contemporary Moroccan collections 01 March 2019
The Netherlands Institute in Marocco (NIMAR) has recently added more than 1000 titles to the Leiden University Library (UBL) collection at our locatio...
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How Leiden University celebrated its first day in 1575 04 February 2019
Lifelike gods, provisional professors and the city militia with weapons a clanking. Leiden put on a colourful procession and drummed up hundreds of ci...
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Dutch universities give Open Access another boost 31 January 2019
The Dutch universities will give Open Access an extra boost from 2019 by starting a pilot titled ‘You share, we take care’ to make publications availa...
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‘Cleveringa was more than a one-day hero’ 14 January 2019
In his biography about Professor Rudolph Cleveringa, Kees Schuyt adds to the image we already have of this famous Leiden professor. The overriding foc...
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Did Rembrandt paint Leiden Professor van Schooten? 06 November 2018
Leiden 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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Just published: Festschrift in honour of Sven P. Vleeming 09 May 2018
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Online publication of the Institute’s coin collection 05 March 2018
On the 26th of February, 2018, it was exactly 25 years ago that the coins of ‘Verzameling Mr. B. Kolff’ were handed over to the Leiden Papyrological I...