L’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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Bibliographie 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.
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Reference medievalist encyclopedia. It covers all aspects of medieval life : religion, economy, literature, living conditions, etc.
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French database that specialises in humanities and social sciences. It gives access to journals, books, pocket encyclopaedia and full text magazines.
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 – Soon unavailable
Database giving access to 24 dictionaries from Antiquity to Modern times through Medieval times. It also includes thematic dictionaries.
Log inElectronic Enlightenment – Soon unavailable
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 inHistoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire
This portal offers documents on the history of ideas and literary criticism; focusing on the contemporary period, from the 19th century to the present. You will find studies on great French-speaking writers (from Musset to Bauchau), but also on literary myths, Europe in literature or women in entertainment.
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 Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance – Soon unavailable
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 inInternational Medieval Bibliography
Multidisciplinary bibliographic reference database for studies on the Middle Ages in Europe.
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 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 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 inMosa
Database harvesting institutional repositories to centralize the Open Access scientific production of Belgium and Luxembourg.
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 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 Scholarship Online – Philosophy – Soon unavailable
The Philosophy collection of the Oxford Scholarship Online platform provides access to over a thousand philosophy titles from 1963 to the present.
Log inThesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) * – Soon unavailable
Digital library of Greek texts from Antiquity to the Modern Period.
Access is strictly reserved to KBR Staff Members.
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