281 search results for “your” in the Library website
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Upload your thesis
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.
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Submitting your PhD dissertation
Practical information on submitting your dissertation
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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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Managing your references using EndNote
Study support
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Managing your references using Mendeley
Study support
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Managing your references using Zotero
Study support
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Keep up-to-date in your field
A number of tools and services are available to help you keep up to date with the latest developments in your subject field.
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Manage your identity with ORCID
Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID) is an international system for the persistent identification of academic authors.
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International Studies: how to write your thesis
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.…
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Embed information literacy in your course
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.
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Vote for your favourite ‘uni-vision’
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.
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Join a study association: ‘It expands your worldview’
A discount on textbooks is always welcome. But for these students joining a study association has meant much more than that alone.
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What do you do if your professor winks at you?
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…
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Climate and elections: these were your top stories from 2023
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.
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Jolien van BarlingenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Kim MinneboFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Merel van BeemFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Jennifer MartinFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Johan RooryckFaculty of Humanities
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Safety at the university: always take your LU-Card with you to work or lectures
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.
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Funding for science communication on deaf community and on losing your way
Two Leiden University science communication projects have been awarded a WECOM grant through the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA). One project is a study of the history of the deaf community in the Netherlands and the other is of a condition that causes people to lose their way.
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Katerina JohnsonFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Laura SteenbergenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Anika BexkensFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Veronique de GuchtFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Annemarie SamuelsFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Working with Zotero
Read all about the most important functionalities of Zotero.
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Working with Mendeley
Read all about the most important functionalities of Mendeley.
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Writing a thesis
Do you need help writing your thesis or paper? Take a look at the different steps of the research process.
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Copyright for authors
Copyright is designed to protect you as the author of your work (moral rights) and to encourage the distribution of your work (exploitation rights).
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FAIR data and software
Everyone working with research data will, at some point, come across the acronym of FAIR, which stands for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.
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Reference management
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.
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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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FAQ Data Management
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.
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Working with EndNote
Learn all about working with EndNote: from installation to useful features.
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Scan, copy and print
Scanners, copiers and printers are available at all of our library locations.
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Library card
A personal library account and LU-Card is needed to enter the libraries and use on-site facilities.
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LU-Card
To use library facilities and services, you need a valid and activated LU-Card.
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Thesis assistance
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.
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Catalogue
The Leiden University Libraries (UBL) catalogue contains millions of (e-)books, (e-)journals, manuscripts, letters, and other materials available at the UBL.
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Copyright on teaching materials
Teaching materials are the resources that you created, in the context of your position at the University, for the purpose of teaching your students.
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Suggestions, compliments and complaints
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:…
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Study areas
The libraries offer over 2300 study places. Some are freely available, some are available to Leiden University students only.
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Borrow
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.
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Requesting (digital) course reserves
A (digital) course reserve shelf offers the possibility to set library materials for a designated period aside.
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ChatGPT
What is possible and what is allowed?
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Workshop: How to write a Data Management Plan (DMP)
Workshop
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Services for Leiden University alumni
Leiden University alumni and PhD graduates can continue to use library facilities free of charge.