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Who runs KB, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest national library alternatives.

Who’s behind it
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Prices
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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs KB

KB kb.nl

View the digital, printed and written heritage collections of the Netherlands: manuscripts, catalogues, digital literacy services, books, magazines, newspapers and maps.

Wikidata: national library of the Netherlands

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What KB tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

None of the 17 alternatives below has fewer; 8 have more.

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Cookie banner
None found

We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on KB’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to KB

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20 of the 60 sites closest to KB match.

  1. 01
    BnF bnf.fr Top 10K English No trackers

    Accueil | BnF – Site institutionnel

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  2. 02
    British Library bl.uk English 1 tracker

    The British Library - the national Library of the UK

    Visit the national library of the UK. Explore our buildings, study, meet friends, attend an event and get free access to over 170 million items. Join us.

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  3. 03
    Library of Congress loc.gov Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Home | Library of Congress

    The world's largest library. View historic photos, maps, books and more. Contact experts for help with research. Plan a visit. Home of U.S. Copyright Office.

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  4. 04
    National Library of Scotland nls.uk English 2 trackers

    National Library of Scotland | Home

    Learn about who we are and what we do at the National Library of Scotland. Read stories, donate, request an item, or find out how to research our collections.

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  5. 05
    Europeana europeana.eu English 1 tracker

    Discover Europe’s digital cultural heritage | Europeana

    Search, save and share art, books, films and music from thousands of cultural institutions

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  6. 06
    UK National Archives nationalarchives.gov.uk Top 10K English No trackers

    Welcome to The National Archives

    Explore 1,000 years of history with the official national archive of the UK Government.

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  7. 07
    National Archives and Records Administration archives.gov Top 10K English 1 tracker

    National Archives | Home

    National Archives and Records Administration

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  8. 08
    Internet Archive archive.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

    U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive

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  9. 09
    Government of the Netherlands government.nl English No trackers

    Information from the Government of the Netherlands | Government.nl

    executive administration body in the Netherlands

    Compare Government of the Netherlands with KB →
  10. 10
    OCLC oclc.org Top 10K English No trackers

    global library cooperative

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  11. 11
    NWO nwo.nl English 2 trackers

    Homepage | NWO

    Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

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  12. 12
    Belgium belgium.be Top 10K English No trackers

    Language selection | Belgium.be

    country in western Europe

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  13. 13
    ClinicalTrials.gov clinicaltrials.gov Top 10K English No trackers

    ClinicalTrials.gov

    United States government registry of clinical trials

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  14. 14
    SURF surf.nl English No trackers

    SURF is the collaborative organisation for IT in Dutch education and research | SURF.nl

    More than 100 education and research institutions in the Netherlands work together in the SURF cooperative to fully utilise the opportunities of digitalisation. Our goal: improved and more flexible education and research.

    Compare SURF with KB →
  15. 15
    Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica cwi.nl Top 10K English No trackers

    Home

    Welcome to Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica

    Compare Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica with KB →
  16. 16
    MedlinePlus medlineplus.gov Top 10K English 1 tracker

    MedlinePlus - Health Information from the National Library of Medicine

    Find information on health conditions, wellness issues, and more in easy-to-read language on MedlinePlus, the up-to-date, trusted health information site from the NIH and the National Library of Medicine.

    Compare MedlinePlus with KB →
  17. 17
    Tate tate.org.uk English 2 trackers

    Tate

    Tate is a family of art galleries in London, Liverpool and Cornwall, known as Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate St Ives and Tate Liverpool + RIBA North. Tate art museum houses the UK's collection of British art from 1500 and of international modern art

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  18. 18
    TNO tno.nl English 1 tracker

    Innovation for life | TNO

    Creating impactful innovations for the sustainable wellbeing and prosperity of society.

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    DataCite datacite.org English No trackers

    DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite

    international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation

    Compare DataCite with KB →
  20. 20
    North Carolina nc.gov English No trackers

    Home | nc.gov

    North Carolina's Official Website, featuring information about government services, updates, and guides to exploring and enjoying our state.

    Compare North Carolina with KB →

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04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what KB adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 10 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,214
Vector
384-d
Query
134 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to KB’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

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