What is the role of academia in solving societal problems such as the corona crisis? Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker spoke about this at the opening of the academic year on 31 August.

Ook voor de Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid was 2020 een bijzonder jaar. Het was een jaar waarin alles anders werd.

Dinsdag 1 september 2020 openen we het facultaire jaar 2020-2021 met een live talkshow vanuit het Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw.

Lecture

Through Open Access, research results from around the world are freely accessible to all. It is an incentive for exchanging and utilising knowledge and fresh insights between scientists, companies and social institutions. The Centre for Digital Scholarship at the University Library offers support with…

Open Science is an umbrella term for an approach that aims to make scientific research accessible, reproducible, and freely available to people within and outside of academics.

Lecture

This list shows the University’s restaurants and cafés and their opening hours. Temporarily there will be no evening meals.

Leiden University has a number of parking areas. To use these parking areas you need a parking subscription. The Rijnveste and Sports Centre parking areas are the only parking facilities that can be accessed with a PIN.

Festival

Lecture

Library, Research

Library, Research

Festival

When you are awarded a grant you need to comply with certain rules and regulations relating to data management and sharing your project results. The instructions on what you need to do in this area when a grant is awarded also serve as a guideline on what to state in the data management paragraph in…

When you are awarded a grant you need to comply with certain rules and regulations relating to data management and sharing your project results. The instructions on what you need to do in this area when a grant is awarded also serve as a guideline on what to state in the data management paragraph in…

When you are awarded a grant you need to comply with certain rules and regulations relating to data management and sharing your project results. The instructions on what you need to do in this area when a grant is awarded also serve as a guideline on what to state in the data management paragraph in…

When you are awarded a grant you need to comply with certain rules and regulations relating to data management and sharing your project results. The instructions on what you need to do in this area when a grant is awarded also serve as a guideline on what to state in the data management paragraph in…

When you are awarded a grant you need to comply with certain rules and regulations relating to data management and sharing your project results. The instructions on what you need to do in this area when a grant is awarded also serve as a guideline on what to state in the data management paragraph in…

When you are awarded a grant you need to comply with certain rules and regulations relating to data management and sharing your project results. The instructions on what you need to do in this area when a grant is awarded also serve as a guideline on what to state in the data management paragraph in…

When you are awarded a grant you need to comply with certain rules and regulations relating to data management and sharing your project results. The instructions on what you need to do in this area when a grant is awarded also serve as a guideline on what to state in the data management paragraph in…

When you are awarded a grant you need to comply with certain rules and regulations relating to data management and sharing your project results. The instructions on what you need to do in this area when a grant is awarded also serve as a guideline on what to state in the data management paragraph in…

When you are awarded a grant you need to comply with certain rules and regulations relating to data management and sharing your project results. The instructions on what you need to do in this area when a grant is awarded also serve as a guideline on what to state in the data management paragraph in…

Research

Lecture, Part of Open Lectures Series

Lecture

The 2020-2021 academic year has begun. The new academic year may have been opened in a pared-down ceremony, but a ceremony it was nonetheless, with around 150 guests in the familiar setting of Pieterskerk and around 1,000 people watching the livestream. ‘Universities will always exist, however rapidly…

Education, Organisation

Leiden University has adopted a new Open Access policy that will easily allow Leiden researchers to accomplish 100% Open Access of peer reviewed articles. Based on the principles of Article 25fa of the Copyright Act (the Taverne amendment), authors can use LUCRIS and the Leiden Repository to make the…

As of 1 June 2020, NWO will make 500,000 euros a year available for the Open Access publication of books resulting from funded projects.

Science, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML)

The Steering Committee of the European Network on Teaching Excellence (ENOTE) is delighted to announce that Professor Hester Bijl, Rector Magnificus of Leiden University, will deliver the opening remarks for ENOTE’s first Academic Training Week.

As a result of the current corona measures, attendance at the Opening of the Academic Year on 6 September will be restricted to a maximum of 75 persons. The ceremony can, however, be viewed online by taking part in a video wall.

The Dutch universities, university medical centres and Research Council have reached an agreement with Elsevier Publishing on a national open science partnership. The partnership includes open access publishing and reading services for Elsevier journals and open science services for disseminating and…

Research

Education, Research

PhD Defence

Research

‘If you want to implement open science, you at least need someone at each faculty who can help researchers to solve practical problems.’ Dorien Huijser spent two years managing the transition to a new working method at the Institute of Psychology’s Brain and Development Research Center.

Facility

Leiden University has an active open science community. Open science means transparency in all phases of research by precisely documenting every step of the way and making this publicly available. ‘It’s time to be open,’ say psychologists Anna van ’t Veer and Zsuzsika Sjoerds. There is increasing awareness…

Facility

Facility

CWTS is proud to be one of the founding organisations of the Initiative for Open Abstracts. This initiative calls on scholarly publishers to make their abstracts available in an open infrastructure, and specifically to deposit them with Crossref.

Research & Politics (RAP) is a peer-reviewed open access journal which focusses on research in political science and related fields through open access publication of the very best cutting-edge research and policy analysis. The journal achieved a high score for the impact factor, which puts it in 49th…