As soon as your thesis has been approved, you will be asked to upload your final version to the Student Repository. The Repository is an online archive for Leiden University theses. You can send all questions regarding your upload to the repository to your Education administration office.

Practical information on submitting your dissertation

You are a PhD candidate and the completion of your dissertation is approaching. What to do next?

Study support

Study support

Study support

A number of tools and services are available to help you keep up to date with the latest developments in your subject field.

Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID) is an international system for the persistent identification of academic authors.

This Subject Guide is designed to support students of International Studies with writing their BA thesis and research papers. This guide focuses on the research process, and suggests effective ways to: 1. find a topic and formulate a good research question; 2. search, find and evaluate literature; 3.…

Knowing where scientific information can be found and how to use it is of great importance for getting through university. In collaboration with teachers, UBL guides students in information literacy skills: from assessing information to searching in the Special Collections and citation management.

What will it be like to study at Leiden University in 2075? Ten surprising, artistic uni-visions could be brought to life. It’s up to you to vote for your favourite.

A discount on textbooks is always welcome. But for these students joining a study association has meant much more than that alone.

Sexual harassment was the theme of the recent annual symposium of student ambassadors to the Leiden-Bollenstreek police in collaboration with the police and the municipality. An extremely important issue to students − if the 100 places being claimed as soon as the symposium was announced was anything…

The year 2023 saw the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, the Wagner Group rebellion and wildfires and floods as all the weather records were smashed. Our most-read stories were about the climate crisis and the elections: here’s the list.

We are living in turbulent times. Various conflicts in other parts of the world at times give rise to feelings of anxiety, unrest and anger in our country too. We also see this happening in our academic community.

Read all about the most important functionalities of Zotero.

Read all about the most important functionalities of Mendeley.

Do you need help writing your thesis or paper? Take a look at the different steps of the research process.

Copyright is designed to protect you as the author of your work (moral rights) and to encourage the distribution of your work (exploitation rights).

Everyone working with research data will, at some point, come across the acronym of FAIR, which stands for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.

Systematically collecting, organising and citing your literature can be an overwhelming and time consuming process. A reference manager, like EndNote, Mendeley or Zotero, can help you with that.

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.

In this FAQ we try to answer a selection of the most important questions on research data management that we compiled over the last 5 years.

Scanners, copiers and printers are available at all of our library locations.

Do you need help with writing your thesis or do you have a question about using the library? Take a look at the sources below.

A personal library account and LU-Card is needed to enter the libraries and use on-site facilities.

To use library facilities and services, you need a valid and activated LU-Card.

Teaching materials are the resources that you created, in the context of your position at the University, for the purpose of teaching your students.

We hope library users are happy using Leiden University Libraries' services. If this is not the case, please let us know. We love to receive suggestions, comments and ideas on how we can improve services, and try to learn from complaints. Choose one of the following options to submit your feedback:…

The Leiden University Libraries (UBL) catalogue contains millions of (e-)books, (e-)journals, manuscripts, letters, and other materials available at the UBL.

The libraries offer over 2300 study places. Some are freely available, some are available to Leiden University students only.

Learn all about working with EndNote: from installation to useful features.

Leiden University Libraries (UBL) owns over 5 million paper materials. Loanable items can be picked up and returned at the UBL library location of your choice.

A (digital) course reserve shelf offers the possibility to set library materials for a designated period aside.

At the moment a lot of discussion surrounds ChatGPT, an advanced chatbot which uses Artificial Intelligence (AI). ChatGPT is based on a Large Language Model (LLM) and has been trained using an enormous amount of text, providing it with knowledge of grammar, semantics and contextual nuances. The program…

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Leiden University alumni and PhD graduates can continue to use library facilities free of charge.

Most questions we receive about Open Access concern funding.

We have inspiring study places at all our locations. Some 2300 in total. Whether you want to work alone or in a group or need a computer, you will find the perfect spot in the library. Some study places have to be booked first.

The library holds an extensive collection of books, journals, and other materials to support your studies.

The University Library (UB) offers guided group visits, introducing our collections and the rich history of the library.