African Newsstream
Provides access to more than 100 African information sources, such as The International Herald Tribune, Africa News Services, BBC Monitoring Africa, etc.
Log inL’Année Philologique
Bibliographical database concerning all aspects of Greek-Roman Antiquity. References are augmented with summaries.
Log inARTSTOR – now only available via JSTOR
Image database featuring images from some of the world’s leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists in an easily-navigated repository. This resource is now only available via JSTOR.
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Asian Newsstream
Provides access to more than 60 national and regional Asian information sources such as The Wall Street Journal Asia, China News and The Bangkok Post.
Log inAustralia & New Zealand Newsstream
Provides access to the leading Australian and New Zealand newspapers such as The Age, The Dominion Post, The Australian and The Mercury.
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 inCanadian Newsstream
Gathers more than 360 contemporary Canadian newspapers and their archives since the 1970’s, including Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail.
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 inClavis Clavium
Bibliographic database in Open Access. Based on 4 claves (Clavis Patrum Latinorum, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, Clavus Patrum Graecorum, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca), it offers essential information for researchers specialising in Paleochristian, Medieval and Byzantine literature.
Log inDatabase of Latin Dictionaries
Database giving access to 24 dictionaries from Antiquity to Modern times through Medieval times. It also includes thematic dictionaries.
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 inElectre *
Contains bibliographic data of French books published or to be published, available or out of print. Please request the access codes for this resource from a librarian in the reading room.
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 inEuropean Newsstream
Provides access to more than 450 European information sources such as the Baltic News Services, Les Echos, Le Monde, The Guardian, etc.
Log inFrantext
Database representing the use of written French from the Middle Ages to the present day. Lexical and grammatical searches are conducted in a corpus of more than 5,000 references, including texts of classical literature as well as cookery and geography manuals, linguistic treatises or contemporary novels.
Log inGlobal Breaking Newswires
News database providing access to newswires from around the world, including the AFP, AP, Dow Jones Industrial News, Canadian Press, etc.
Log inGlobal Newsstream
Provides access to the most important international and contemporary newspapers and their archives since the eighties, such as The Financial Times, El Mundo, South China Morning Post, etc.
Log inGreen’s Dictionary of Slang
Online dictionary of English slang words.
Log inIn Principio
One million Latin ‘incipits’ about history, literature, philosophy and religion.
Log inInternational African Bibliography Online
International and interdisciplinary bibliographic database on African studies with more than 140 000 references.
Log inInternational Newsstream
Provides recent international news outside the USA, with archives. The database contains the full text from over 660 world newspapers such as The Times, The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Jerusalem Post, etc.
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. Since April 2024, JSTOR has also provided access to the full content of ARTSTOR, including photos and works of art from museums.
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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 inLos Angeles Times
One of the largest American metropolitan newspapers that have won numerous journalism awards, including 37 Pulitzer prizes.
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 inMLA (Modern Language Association) International Bibliography with Full Text
Annual bibliography of books and articles from around the world on languages, modern literature, linguistics, folklore, etc.
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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.
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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 Books
One of the four OpenEdition platforms (OpenEdition Books, OpenEdition Journals, Calenda, Hypothèses). It offers more than 12.000 electronic books in the field of humanities and social sciences.
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 inOxford Music Online
Gateway offering access to dictionaries and encyclopaedias on music.
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 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 inUS Newsstream
Gathers recent American news with archives from the 1980’s. The database contains the full text from more than 590 newspapers such as The New York Times, Los Angeles, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, etc. US Newsstream includes the following collections:
- US Hispanic Newsstream
- US Major Dailies
- US Midwest Newsstream
- US North Central Newsstream
- US Northeast Newsstream
- US South Central Newsstream
- US Southeast Newsstream
- US West Newsstream
Van Dale
Dutch Reference Dictionary. KBR gives access to the explanatory dictionary (Dikke Van Dale) and to a translation tool (Van Dale Online), in English, French, German, Dutch, and Spanish. The resource also contains the Oxford Dictionary of English and its thesaurus.
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