ARTSTOR
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 inCairn.info
French database that specialises in humanities and social sciences. It gives access to journals, books, pocket encyclopaedia and full text magazines.
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 inElectronic Enlightenment
A Bodleian Library project, it provides access to over 69,000 letters from correspondents around the world between 1600 and 1850. It includes private conversations of great personalities such as Voltaire, Louis XVI, Jane Austen, Erasmus and Françoise de Graffigny, as well as biographical notes and academic annotations.
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 inEncyclopaedia Universalis
French-speaking encyclopaedia of reference. Gathers more than 320 000 generalist articles, 125 000 definitions, 30 000 audio-visual media and an international atlas.
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 inHistorical Abstracts with Full Text
Collection of articles, reports and bibliographies of books on history, culture, social sciences, arts and military sciences.
Log inIn Principio
One million Latin ‘incipits’ about history, literature, philosophy and religion.
Log inInternational Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance
International reference bibliography of academic publications on the Renaissance and the Modern period. It completes the International Medieval Bibliography and the Bibliographie de Civilisation Médiévale.
Log inInternational Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages
Supplement of the Lexikon des Mittelalters Online, this encyclopaedia covers the medieval period (300-1500) of Europe, North Africa and the Middle-East.
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 inLos Angeles Times
One of the largest American metropolitan newspapers that have won numerous journalism awards, including 37 Pulitzer prizes.
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)OECD iLibrary
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s virtual library, which gives access to books, journals and statistics on economy, development, education, finance, etc.
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 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.