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  Marinus van IJzendoorn

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Joost van Ginkel Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Sandra van Dijk Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Jasmijn Rana Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Veronique de Gucht Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Sylvestre Bonnet Professor

  Faculty of Science

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  Felicia Rosu Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jojanneke van der Toorn Professor by Special Appointment LGBT+ Workplace Inclusion

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Adriaan Bedner Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Hanna Swaab Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• E-Books

  The library provides access to a large collection of e-books. Below you can find answers to the most relevant questions on how to find and successfully access these e-books.

• Digital Scholarship projects

  Our current projects using new digital methods and techniques.

• Managing your references using EndNote Course

  Study support

• Managing your references using Zotero Course

  Study support

• Managing your references using Mendeley Course

  Study support

• Evaluating information

  Publishing and sharing information has become more accessible. How can you judge whether or not a publication or an internet site is trustworthy? Here you will find some useful leads to help you judge information.

• Literary Studies

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• Classics

  Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Classics

• Requesting (digital) course reserves

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

• Teaching with Special Collections

  There are several excellent options for teachers and researchers to engage students and other audiences with primary sources. Either by requesting items from the Special Collections for use during lectures or by integrating our educational resources into your lesson plans.

• Japan Studies: General Subject Guide

  This Subject Guide is designed to support students of Japan 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 on…

• Accessing Special Collections

  The Special Collections of Leiden University Libraries contain a world-renowned and vast collection of old prints, manuscripts, archives, prints, drawings and photography. Our collections are accessible to Leiden researchers and students, as well as external researchers and other interested parties.

• Russian and Eurasian Studies

  Overview of databases, reference works and websites for Research in Russian and Eurasian Studies

• 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.

• Portraits

  Leiden University owns extensive collections of portraits. These include around a hundred painted portraits of scholars, librarians and professors and around 30,000 prints of scholars, politicians, rulers, artists, writers and other persons of fame. A smaller partial collection is that of writers, belonging…

• Leiden University Press

  Leiden University Press publishes academic books and text books journals, primarily in humanities and social and behavioural sciences.

• Manuscripts, Archives and Letters: further information

  A collection consists of items and parts that have been collected by one or more individuals or institutions not responsible for their formation. An archive has been created by one or more individuals or institutions.

• Library Unlocked

  Unlock your potential at the library!

• Special Collections

  Special books, drawings, photos and other source material in the UBL collections can be found at the Special Collections department. You can’t borrow these materials, but you can request them via the catalogue and consult them in the library. Planning your first visit to the Special Collections reading…

• 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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  Miguel John Versluys Professor of Classical & Mediterranean Archaeology

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Wouter Veenendaal Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• Visiting the libraries

  Welcome to Leiden University Libraries!

• Scan, copy and print

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

• Get to know your Library

• Archaeology

  Overview of databases and reference works for research in Archaeology.

• Teachers

  All our services for teaching staff

• 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.…

• 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.

• Working with Mendeley

  Read all about the most important functionalities of Mendeley.

• News

• How to print, copy and scan

  Would you rather read your article on paper or do you need a scan of a book? Check out how to print, copy and scan.

• NIMAR Rabat

  Address 3, Avenue Mohamed El Fassi (ex. Av. Marrakech) 10010 Hassan, Rabat Marocco Tel: +212 5376 68500 E-mail: nimar@hum.leidenuniv.nl

• Finding books using LCC

  Looking for a book? Materials within the Leiden University Libraries (UBL) collection are (mostly) arranged according to the Library of Congress Classification.

• Citing

  When writing a paper or thesis you are bound by the principles of academic integrity. There are strict rules concerning plagiarism. Citing your sources right is important to prevent plagiarism. But how do you read a reference and how to cite right?

• Dutch studies

  Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Dutch language and culture.

• Psychology

  Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Psychology

• German Language and Culture

  Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in German language and culture.