News archive
Category: Collections
Six months of Special Collections in the Wellbeing Room
Over the past six months, Special Collections has temporarily made use of the Wellbeing Room for a varied public programme. The space offered an inviting setting for people to step away from their daily routine, explore new ideas and engage with collections, stories and one another.
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New digital exhibition on military memory tourism
How did Europeans visit and remember sites of war before modern heritage tourism? This new digital exhibition explores the rise of military memory tourism through historical travel guides, tracing the transformation of battlefields, monuments and memorial sites from military spectacles to places of remembrance.
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Preserving Maastricht University’s visual history
Since 2025, Maastricht University Library has been working on the Maastricht University (UM) Heritage Photo Collection project, making a curated selection of historical photographs from the UM archive more accessible. As part of this project, sessions are being organised with current and former UM employees who were involved with the university at some point between 1975 and 2003 to analyse the photographs.
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Investing in open research information: OpenAlex partnership and end of Scopus license
Maastricht University Library is taking a significant step towards open research information by investing in a partner subscription with OpenAlex. At the same time, the library has decided to cancel its Scopus license with effect from 1 January 2027.
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National Action Days for Resilient Heritage
From 11–13 May, institutions across the Netherlands are participating in the National Action Days for Resilient Heritage, an initiative organised by the Dutch UNESCO Commission, Blue Shield Netherlands, and Cultural Emergency Response. The initiative encourages organisations to strengthen the resilience of cultural heritage and to prepare for a wide range of crises, including emergencies, climate-related risks, cyber threats, and armed conflict.
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Strategic Collection Plan 2026-2031 now available
Building on the strategic theme Scientific Information @ the Core, the new Strategic Collection Plan outlines our ambitions for sustainable, accessible, and future-focused collections.
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Special Collections in Medieval Teaching
The course “Exploring Historical Parallels: Learning from Medieval History” at University College Maastricht (UCM) has successfully concluded for this academic year.
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Discover the UM Library Highlights 2025
We are pleased to share a selection of our projects and activities from the past year on our Highlights 2025 web page. With scientific information at the core of our work, we focus on making knowledge accessible and supporting Maastricht University’s (UM) students, teachers, and researchers, as well as our wider network of partners, in achieving their academic goals.
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New de Gruyter Brill Read & Publish agreement from January 2026
As of January 2026, Maastricht University has a new Read & Publish agreement with de Gruyter Brill, negotiated nationally via UKB and SURF.
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Maastricht psychology students bring rare books to Wikipedia
Once again this year, psychology students at Maastricht University are bringing rare and fascinating books out of the stacks and onto Wikipedia.
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