Dutch University Libraries and National Library

UKB
Established1979; 47 years ago (1979)
TypeNon-profit academic national library association
HeadquartersUtrecht, the Netherlands
Members17
WebsiteUKB

UKB refers to the association of thirteen Dutch university libraries and Royal Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KB). Furthermore, associate members are Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), the Open Universiteit, Dutch Research Council (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek NWO), and the Dutch Werkgroep Speciale Wetenschappelijke Bibliotheken (Special Scientific Libraries Working Group, WSWB). UKB was founded in 1979 to improve the scientific information structure and knowledge cooperation between academic libraries in the Netherlands and internationally.

The collaborating libraries could effect synergetic efficiency gains by, e.g., collective licensing negotiations with international publishers.

University members

UKB members include the libraries of the classical universities, alphabetically Delft University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Leiden University, Maastricht University, Open University in the Netherlands, Radboud University, Tilburg University, University of Groningen, University of Twente, Utrecht University, University of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Wageningen University and Research Centre, and as associate member Open University of the Netherlands.

References

  1. 1 2 "Cooperating Dutch University Libraries and National Library". ukb.nl. Utrecht, the Netherlands: UKB. 2025. Retrieved 21 August 2025.
  2. ↑ Gilbert, John (August 1998). "The Association of Dutch University Libraries, the Royal Library, and the Library of the Royal Academy of Sciences. 64th IFLA General Conference August 16 - August 21, 1998". origin-archive.ifla.org. IFLA. Retrieved 21 August 2025.
  3. ↑ Klugkist, Alex C. (2001). "Consortium Building and Licensing by University Libraries in the Netherlands". LIBER Quarterly: The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries. 11 (1). LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries: 80–86. doi:10.18352/lq.7633. Retrieved 21 August 2025.
  4. ↑ Morka, Agata; Gatti, Rupert (January 31, 2021). "The Netherlands. Academic libraries and OA books. The Dutch perspective". copim.pubpub.org. Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM). Retrieved 21 August 2025.. OA stands for Open Access.
  5. ↑ Dunning, Alastair (October 1, 2024). "Learning from Libraries' Growing Experience with Unbundling". library-collections.tudl.tudelft.nl. Delft Technical University. Retrieved 21 August 2025.
  6. ↑ "Content procurement, Agreements with publishers". surf.nl. SURF, cooperative association of Dutch educational and research institutions operating SURFnet. Retrieved 21 August 2025.