America History and Life with Full Text
Provides access to books and journals on history and culture of the United States of America and Canada.
Log inAncestry Library Edition
Genealogical database containing billions of civil statistics, census and military records from Canada, the USA and some European countries.
Log inL’Année Philologique
Bibliographical database concerning all aspects of Greek-Roman Antiquity. References are augmented with summaries.
Log inARTSTOR
Image database featuring images from some of the world’s leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists in an easily-navigated repository.
Log inBibliographie de Civilisation médiévale
Multilingual bibliographic database from the famous Cahiers de Civilisation médiévale (1958-2003). Originally dedicated to the High Middle Ages, today it also covers Late Antiquity and Late Middle Ages, with more than 64 000 references.
Log inCBS News 60 Minutes
Provides access to the archives (1977-2014) of the American television programme 60 Minutes. The database contains video files and their transcripts.
Log inChicago Tribune
Investigative and famous American newspapers (24 Pulitzer prizes since 1932).
Log inEarly English Books Online
Provides access to digital versions of over 130 000 printed works in English speaking countries between 1473 and 1700. They cover many disciplines: art, history, literature, music, science, theology …
Log inEncyclopaedia Britannica
English-speaking encyclopaedia of reference. Gathers generalist articles, atlases, primary sources, definitions of the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and English-speaking periodicals in the field oh humanities and social sciences.
Log inEncyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895
Gathers articles about African-American history, from the colonial period to the age of Frederick Douglass.
Log inEncyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present
Gathers articles about African-American history, from the Reconstruction Era to today (2008).
Log inGale Primary Sources Unavailable – Please see The Making of the Modern World.
Platform that allows to search in reference works and ancient sources in the various fields of the humanities.
Log inThe Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition
Online dictionary on music in all its forms.
Log inThe Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
Encyclopedic articles on American art.
Log inThe Guardian and The Observer
The archives of these two historical newspapers, available from 1791 to 2003, provide unmatched coverage of the arts, politics, public affairs and sports. These two British newspapers and famous defenders of press freedom offer a unique perspective on historical events.
Log inThe Hartford Courant
The archives of this historical newspaper, available from 1764 to 1996, gives access to documentation of the movement for independence, the Revolutionary War, slavery in early American life and the writings of Mark Twain.
Log inHistorical Abstracts with Full Text
Collection of articles, reports and bibliographies of books on history, culture, social sciences, arts and military sciences.
Log inHistorical Newspapers
Database providing access to the full text of the archives of several Anglo-Saxon newspapers of international audience such as The Guardian en The Observer, The Hartford Courant, The New York Times with Index, The New York Tribune and Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.
Log inIn Principio
One million Latin ‘incipits’ about history, literature, philosophy and religion.
Log inIndex to Printed Music
Bibliographic database on music.
Log inInternational African Bibliography Online
International and interdisciplinary bibliographic database on African studies with more than 140 000 references.
Log inInternet Archive
Digital Library dedicated to archiving the web. It contains more than 735 billion web pages, 41 million books, 22 million multimedia documents (audio and video), 4 million images and 890.000 software programmes from all over the world. Internet Archive includes:
- The Wayback Machine: web pages
- Books to Borrow: digitised books subject to copyright
- Open Library: free access digitised books
- TV News: TV broadcasts
- Understanding 9/11: archive of TV programmes about 9/11
- Live Music Archive: filmed music concerts
- The LibriVox Free Audiobook Collection: audio recordings of public domain texts
- Internet Arcade: online video games from 1970 to 2000
- Console Living Room: video games on home consoles
- Metropolitan Museum of Art: museum image gallery
- Cleveland Museum of Art: museum image gallery
To access all these document on the Internet Archive, it is necessary to create a free user account.
Log inJSTOR
Database that provides access to journals and e-books in full text in the domains of arts and sciences.
Log inKnowledge Unlatched
Collaboration between libraries and publishers to ensure open access to scientific literature. This database covers the following disciplines: anthropology, history, literature, media and communication, politics, …
Log inLatin American Newsstream
Provides access to nearly 90 Latin American information sources, such as El Universal, O Globo, La Nación, El Mercurio, etc.
Log inLexikon des Mittelalters Online
Database that provides access to articles, books, bibliographies and indexes concerning the Middle Ages (culture, history, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, science …).
Log inLos Angeles Times
One of the largest American metropolitan newspapers that have won numerous journalism awards, including 37 Pulitzer prizes.
Log inThe Making of the Modern World
Bibliographic data and digitised texts on economic themes in the broad sense: political science, history, sociology, finance, colonisation …
Log inMiddle East Newsstream
Provides access to more than 130 information sources from the Arabic world, Southwest Asia and surrounding countries. The database contains the full text from several newspapers such as Gulf Daily News, Palestine Chronicles, Le Temps, Sudan Tribune, etc.
Log inMosa
Database harvesting institutional repositories to centralize the Open Access scientific production of Belgium and Luxembourg.
Log inThe New York Times (with Index)
The renowned American newspaper gives access to its archives (1851-2018) and to early 20th century news. The newspaper publishes all important texts, including speeches and presidential press conferences. An index for politics, economics, art, culture, history, sports and public affaires is available.
Log in to the online archives (1851-2018) Log in to the online newspaper (1980-present)The New York Tribune and Herald Tribune
The archives of these annexes to The New York Times, available from 1841 to 1962, cover major events at the turn of the 20th century. Texts by Theodore Roosevelt, Margaret Fuller, Karl Marx and Frederic Engels are also included.
Log inOpenBook Publishers
OpenBook Publishers is an academic Open Access publisher. Thanks to KBR’s partnership, you have access to all the e-books available on the platform, both in streaming, in ePub and PDF.
Log inOpenEdition Journals
One of the four OpenEdition platforms (OpenEdition Books, OpenEdition Journals, Calenda, Hypothèses). It offers more than 500 journals in the fields of humanities and social sciences. (Previously Revues.org.).
Log inProQuest Research Library
Database that contains millions of full-access articles from scientific, literary, historical, artistic, … journals.
Log inRoyal Geographical Society (with IBG)
The archives of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) provide primary sources (maps, atlases, expedition reports, …) from 1485 to 1983 on geography (human, historical and cultural), colonial and decolonization studies and the environment.
Log inThesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) * Access is strictly reserved to KBR Staff Members
Digital library of Greek texts from Antiquity to the Modern Period.
Access is strictly reserved to KBR Staff Members.
Log inUN iLibrary
The United Nations’ virtual library. It give access to books and articles on democracy, economy, environment, human rights, health, etc.
Log inUS Major Dailies
Gathers the five most respected American national and regional newspapers and their archives : Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post.
Log inThe Wall Street Journal
American newspaper considered as the leading publication for economic news and information on global financial markets. The archives (1889-2004) cover international and American business, financial news and in-depth financial analyses on the world’s stock market.
Log in to the online archives (1889-2004) Log in to the online newspaper (1984-present)The Washington Post
American journal well known for in-depth news and analyses of American politics. The archives (1877-2005) provide political and governmental news. This newspaper won Pulitzer prizes for its articles on the Watergate scandal (1972-1974).
Log in to the online archives (1877-2005) Log in to the online newspaper (1984-present)* Resources marked with an asterisk (*) can only be consulted on site at KBR for legal reasons.