Australian Newspapers On-Line

[Jim McCreadie]

Hopefully, this service will prove useful to my fellow researchers.

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On 25 July 2008, in collaboration with the State and Territory libraries, the National Library of Australia launched the Australian Newspapers Beta service which makes available out-of-copyright digitised Australian newspapers. This exciting new online service enables the full-text searching of newspapers published in each state and territory from the 1800s to the mid-1950s. The first Australian newspaper, the Sydney Gazette published in Sydney in 1803, is included in the service.

The Australian Newspapers Beta service already contains over 90,000 newspaper pages from 1803 onwards, with more pages being added daily, see http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au> .

The National Library of Australia welcomes your feedback on the service. Details on the way in which feedback can be provided are on the 'about' page of the service. The Library will continue to develop the Beta service and fix any bugs and major issues that arise over the next few months.

The Beta service, will be further developed in line with user feedback into version 1 of the Australian Newspapers service and be officially launched in 2009. The progress and extent of newspaper titles being digitised is outlined on the ANDP website - see http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp.

The Australian Newspaper Digitisation Team

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Jim McCreadie
Fremantle
Western Australia