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Elsevier the information analytics business specializing in science and health and Leiden University Libraries UBL announced the founding of a fellowship program in Digital Scholarship. The program will enable international scholars to study the digital collections at UBL and to collaborate with the innovative Centre for Digital Scholarship CDS at Leiden University. The program will financially support the research fellows to stay in Leiden for a period of two months where fellows will be invited to share their research outcomes through public lectures and publications. These fellowships offer a new digital scholarship perspective building on the longstanding Scaliger Institute fellowship program that focuses on the study of Special Collections at Leiden University.Our collaboration falls squarely in the innovative agenda of the Library remarked Dr. Kurt De Belder University Librarian and Director of Leiden University Libraries. It stimulates the study of digital collections and digital scholarship to further our understanding of new digital technologies and their impact on scholarship.The Elsevier fellowships reinforce our longstanding relationship with Leiden University and builds upon the original Elzeviers tradition of publishing and our current focus on digital solutions for the world of research noted Dr. Michiel Kolman Senior Vice President of Information Industry Relations and Academic Ambassador at Elsevier. We are very excited to add Leiden University to our list of university collaborations which today also includes among others Harvard University and Humboldt University.