Text and Data Mining (TDM) is increasingly applied in various academic disciplines to extract useful information from unstructured textual data using computational methods.

Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has made approximately 200.000 digitised books, maps, photographs and other materials available in Digital Collections via the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). IIIF offers researchers and lecturers numerous new ways to share digital images from…

Software development is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a sociologist. Three years ago, John Boy began developing his software package Textnets. Because of Corona, he was less able to concentrate on writing scientific research and also setting up the online courses…

Books, manuscripts and images are of course made to be read and looked at, but they are also so much more. There is a world to discover in this new exhibition: hidden content, moving parts, pop-up images and much else besides. Touching Treasures by Leiden University Libraries (UBL) revolves around…

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

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…

Resources for searching Open Access articles, journals and books

Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Ancient Near East Studies. Last update: October 2020

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.

The UBL provides access to an endless collection printed and online journal articles

Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Middle Eastern Studies

Read all about the most important functionalities of EndNote.

With its more than 1400 bindings and over a thousand fragments Leiden’s collection of medieval manuscripts (up to ca. 1550) is the largest in the Netherlands.

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

The UBL develop collections which support the needs of faculty and students of the University.

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

Overview of databases, reference works and websites for South and Southeast Asian Studies.

The Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity defines plagiarism as ‘the use of another person’s ideas, work methods, results or texts without appropriate acknowledgement’. The definition at Oxford University is somewhat more extensive: ‘Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work or ideas…

Sources for finding legislation, treaties and parliamentary documentation

The Southeast Asian Special Collections contain text and audiovisual materials pertaining to the languages, histories, philosophies, religions, literatures, and (material) art of the region. The focus lies on the Malay world, in particular on the Nederlands-Indies/Indonesia. Apart from books and periodicals…

Our list of commonly used tools facilitate your work and research online.

Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Italian Language and Culture

Conditions are attached to the use of information sources (databases) provided by UBL.

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

Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Political Science

Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Security Studies

Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Public Administration

This Subject Guide will provide you with an overview of useful databases and online resources available within and outside the University Library. This subject guide is your starting point, aiding you in finding sources for any research field within the field of International Studies and International…

The Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDS) supports Open Science by providing information, consultancy, and training on the following topics.

The CDS helps researchers to try out new methods and techniques, and to collaborate and learn, to create software and to maintain it.

Overview of databases, reference works and websites in western languages for research in Comparative Philosophy

Leiden’s University Library provides access to a large collection of digital (contemporary) and digitized (historical) newspapers. These newspapers can be found through the library’s catalogue and through the library’s databases. Furthermore, the Dutch National Library offers access to several international…

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