GO FAIR Foundation Fellowship: Implementing FAIR data practices at Leiden University Kristina Hettne and Alessa Gambardella • December 03, 2025
The why, how and what of publishing research data Each year, on the first Thursday of November, World Digital Preservation Day is celebrated. In honor of today, we share our thoughts on depositing research data in a data repository. Happy World Digital Preservation Day! Femmy Admiraal • November 06, 2025
Impact on ownership when choosing an NC or ND Creative Commons Licence Did you know you may be giving away some of your author rights to the publisher when you choose an open access licence which prohibits commercial reuse or production of derivatives (i.e. by applying a CC BY-NC, CC BY-ND or CC BY-NC-ND licence)? Heleen Palmen and Erna Sattler • October 08, 2025
The CDS Summer Training Week 2025: looking back and useful materials going forward From 23 to 27 June, the third CDS Summer Training Week brought together over 70 participants for a series of workshops, lectures, and interactive sessions. Pascal Flohr and Peter Verhaar • August 11, 2025
How can we monitor where Leiden researchers deposit their data? A comparative analysis between open sources Datasets are increasingly deposited and published by Leiden University researchers. But where do they do this and how can we find out? During her internship at the Leiden University Libraries’ Centre for Digital Scholarship and the CWTS, Korina Lemonidou researched this question. Korina Lemonidou • April 02, 2025
The new Leiden University Employer Copyright Regulations offer clarification on Leiden’s policy on copyright On the 10th of February 2025, the Leiden University Employer Copyright Regulations were published. What does this mean for the academic community of Leiden University? And why was it deemed necessary in the first place? Erna Sattler • February 12, 2025
Love Data Week 2025 @CDS It’s International Love Data Week! The theme this year is “Whose data is it, anyway?” This week, we at the Leiden University Libraries’ Centre for Digital Scholarship share our love of data through the following events. Pascal Flohr and Kristina Hettne • February 10, 2025
Key insights from the symposium on AI and Academic Publishing On 7 November 2024, the UBL and Elsevier jointly organised a symposium on AI and academic publishing. Peter Verhaar • January 22, 2025
Getting started with AI at Leiden University Artificial Intelligence (AI) has introduced itself into everyone's lives. Naturally, Leiden University Libraries also has to address the development of AI. In this blogpost, I will give a short introduction to (Gen)AI and its effects on the university library. Tessa Philippa • January 22, 2025
Breaking down open access book publishing platforms: A comparative approach to publishing choices During her internship at the Leiden University Libraries’ Centre for Digital Scholarhsip, Sunny Liu worked on a very useful comparison framework for self-publishing book platforms. In this blog you can find out what this is and how you can use it. Sunny Liu • November 27, 2024
