Requesting, borrowing, renewing and referring to books

Digital preservation is about keeping our digital collection accessible in the long term. Read more about this expertise of the KB.

You can order high-quality digital reproductions of material from our collections, for example a title page or newspaper article.

As a member of the KB or a non-profit organisation, you can borrow books from other Dutch or foreign libraries via the KB. We call this Inter Library Loans (ILL). This page explains how ILL works and how much it costs.

Registration Agency NBN is a service of the KB. It ensures that (scientific) institutions can use sustainable links. What does that entail?

If you’re starting a career in the sciences and want to use our digital collection for research, why not become a researcher-in-residence at the KB? You can use our databases and collaborate with our Digital Humanities team.

Learn more about our policy plan, our annual reports and our most important results and key figures.

Delpher magazines is a dataset from the KB. This dataset contains almost half a milion digitised magazines from the 19th and 20th century. 

Which novels were popular in the past? How were male and female characters portrayed? Can you measure literature? The DBNL dataset has over 5 million digitised pages of Dutch language and literature. 

Delpher ANP radio bulletins digital is a source of daily news in the form that radio news used to be presented many years ago. The KB provides these bulletins as a dataset.