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In 1859 several Rotterdam entrepreneurs and bankers founded the RLK, aiming for a quality library where the membership fees could remain low.

If you have a suggestion for an acquisition within the Rotterdamsch Leeskabinet collection, please let us know via: leeskabinet@eur.nl or the form below.

Quarterly, the Rotterdamsch Leeskabinet publishes a list of recent acquisitions. Click one of the buttons below to view the latest acquisitions lists.

The Rotterdamsch Leeskabinet collection includes historic editions and rare publications in limited editions. Most of these are private gifts or bequests.

Details about the openly accessible parts of the collection, the system used for organizing it, and additional information.

Predatory journals act as legitimate Open Access journals and charge costs for publication without providing proper editorial services.

Creative Commons (CC) licences aim to make creative works more freely available than is possible through traditional copyright.

The aim of Erasmus University is to make books available in Open Access as much as possible.

Since 2011 the policy of Erasmus University Rotterdam is that all short scientific work has to be made available in Open Access.

The collections of the University Library also include many books published before 1850.