Finding and Reusing Open Materials for Publishing, Presenting, and Teaching

Geospatial analysis with GIS

If your research involves geospatial analysis, the Leiden University Libraries’ Centre for Digital Scholarship can help. We offer information and training on the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). To get you started, Peter Verhaar introduces the basics in this blogpost.

A decade of digital scholarship at Leiden University Libraries

Head of the Leiden University Libraries' (UBL) Centre for Digital Scholarship, Alenka Prinčič, writes about the past and future of digital scholarship at the UBL.

CDS Summer Training Week 2026: research support from A to Z

From 8-12 June, the Centre for Digital Scholarship organized the fourth edition of the Summer Training Week. The research support professionals of the CDS, together with the participants, explored various topics from each of our areas of expertise.

Your field notes are valuable research data - so share them

When conducting research fieldwork we generally produce field notes, often as the primary data source or as contextualisation of other gathered data such as interviews. Here, I argue that these are an important part of the research dataset and should be shared as openly as possible.

FAIR data

Demystifying research data interoperability

Of the FAIR principles, the ones relating to interoperability are the most challenging. Ari Asmi of the Leiden University Libraries’ Centre for Digital Scholarship is an interoperability expert and organised a workshop in February 2026, the key highlights of which are illustrated in this blog.

Love Data Week: And where is *your* data?

It's (almost) Love Data Week! The theme this year is 'Where 's the data?'. In this blog Femmy Admiraal of the Leiden University Libraries' Centre for Digital Scholarship explains where you can publish your dataset and tells us more about the Leiden University in-house DataverseNL repository.