302 search results for “support” in the Library website
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Open Doors at CDS: drinks and bites
Network meeting
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Veni grants for 22 researchers from Leiden University
An impressive 22 research projects by Leiden researchers have been awarded Veni funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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Workshop: Sharing field notes
Workshop
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Lunch lecture: Read & Publish Deals
Lunch lecture
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How (and Why) to be Editors and Reviewers
Seminar
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The role of good RDM in accelerating scientific progress
Workshop
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FAIRification Tutorial
Workshop
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Meaningful sharing: how to improve our engagement with current Open Science practices
Lunch meeting
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Basic Principles of Linked Open Data & SPARQL
Workshop
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Workshop: Dilemmas in Scholarly Communcation
Workshop
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FAIRification Tutorial
Tutorial
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Creating maps using Leaflet and QGIS
Training workshop
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Medieval manuscripts available in Digital Collections
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has made more than five hundred medieval handwritten text sources available online via Digital Collections. This makes a third of her collection of Western medieval manuscripts – one of the largest and the most important in the Netherlands – available in high resolution…
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Library staff aim to maintain services and collections
The people behind the Leiden University Libraries aim to maintain the level of their services to clients as much as possible. They are making thankful use of internet, but not everything can be put online.
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Politics after Pim - a reading list
A flamboyant politician, a divisive figure in the Dutch political landscape and a 'man of the people' who presented himself as an unconventional minister. Exactly twenty years ago today, the Netherlands was shocked to its core by the political murder of Pim Fortuyn. Who was Pim Fortuyn? What were his…
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Discovery of unknown translation of René Descartes’ 'L’homme' in Leiden Bibliotheca Thysiana
From time to time, manuscripts that have remained hidden for centuries turn up in library collections and archives. In the archives of the 17th-century Bibliotheca Thysiana at the Rapenburg in Leiden, kept in the Leiden University Library, Rotterdam researcher Erik-Jan Bos discovered a hitherto unknown…
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Wrap-ups and recordings of the Leiden University Libraries & Elsevier seminars on Reproducible Research
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) in partnership with Elsevier hosted a series of online seminars on the challenges involved in achieving reproducibility in research. The seminars aimed to identify best practices that can help to overcome central challenges around reproducibility, and to convey several…
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Digitised Leiden Middle Eastern collections available in Digital Collections
More than 2000 objects from the Middle Eastern collection at Leiden University Libraries (UBL) have been made available online through Digital Collections. These collections mostly consist of written works in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac, but also contain printed works and the…
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Coming-out day – A reading list
In the past few decades, LGBTQ+ acceptance has come a long way. Coming out, however, is still a difficult experience for many people on a personal level. Everyone’s story is different and not everyone belongs to a clear denomination within the LGBTQ+ spectrum. That is why learning about the personal…
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Library comes up with creative solutions
UBL, Leiden University Libraries, is doing all it can to continue to offer its services. Even now the motto is, ‘work from home’. Who is doing want and how are things going?
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Warm welkom voor nieuwe studenten tijdens EL CID
On a sunny Lammermarkt, thousands of new students gathered to kick off their student life in Leiden at the 56th edition of EL CID.
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American Politics and the 2020 Presidential Elections - A Reading List
The United States seems to be embroiled in one of the most contentious electoral battles in its history. In fact, presidential elections have become ever more contested over the past decades. In the past few years, and even centuries, researchers and authors have sought to explain issues that are currently…
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Connect & Protect: meet the FGGA Ethics Committee
Network meeting
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Connect & Find: a metadata standard that fits your data
Netwerkbijeenkomst
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Connect & Escape: Data Horror Escape Room
Workshop
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Connect & Check in: meet the RDM Community
Network meeting
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Connect & Learn: The decentralized web and safeguarding digital sovereignty
Network meeting
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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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Why Humanities? Cristiana Strava on Middle Eastern Studies
Lecture
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Connect & Meet: AI and data management
Network meeting
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Connect & Share: the 2024 IDCC Conference 'Trust through Transparency'
Network meeting
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Connect & Preserve: File formats
Lecture + Q&A
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Connect & Train: Steps to effective training design
Webinar, Q&A, discussion
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Connect & Deposit: discovering the Dryad data publishing platform
Network meeting
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The Gulag Legacy - Memory of Stalinism in Today's Russia
Lecture
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Connect & FAIRify: FAIRification of a high throughput metabolomics laboratory with FAIR Digital Objects
Webinar, Q&A, discussion
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Connect & Share: Licenses and Access Rights – How to Set the Appropriate Conditions for your Dataset
Network meeting
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Connect & Open up: meet the Open Science Community Leiden
Network meeting
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Connect & Reuse: practical use cases from public health
Netwerkbijeenkomst
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Connect & Learn: How a large, complex, sensitive dataset is managed for long-term access and use
Netwerkbijeenkomst
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Connect & Discover: What can the European Open Science Cloud do for you?
Network meeting
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Connect & Retain: Data retention, active digital preservation and trustworthy digital archives - A myth buster talk
Webinar, Q&A, discussion
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KF-ENKRS Network Workshop 2023: Connect, Collect and Catalogue
Network Workshop
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Back to Rabat
The airspace had almost closed last year as Leiden students and staff rushed to leave the Netherlands Institute Morocco (NIMAR). How is this Leiden institute in Rabat doing over a year later? ‘Luckily we’d done a crisis exercise a few months before. Everyone managed leave the country in time.’
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Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks - a reading list
On Saturday 11 September, it will be 20 years since two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in the very heart of Manhattan. The images of smoking towers are etched into the memories of many, not only in the United States, but all over the world. September 11 became the subject of much research,…
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Warfare: technology and ethics - a reading list
While the United States continues to carry out drone strikes, and China conducts large-scale cyber and information operations, Ukrainian and Russian soldiers live in trenches, and NATO sends tanks to the Donbas front to force a breakthrough. Has war changed dramatically in recent decades as a result…
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Why Humanities? Frans-Willem Korsten about Literature & Law
Lecture
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Why Humanities? Italian studies
Lecture
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The Chinese Queer Collection - A Workshop for Activists, Archivists and Academics at Leiden University
Workshop
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Why Humanities? Arthur Crucq on Art as a "Leftist Hobby"
Lecture