National Library of Australia

Australian Women's Weekly Digitisation Project

The Australian Women's Weekly is now available online  

Over the past eighteen months the Library has been working to digitise The Australian Women's Weekly, from 10 June 1933 to 15 December 1982 (from inception to when the magazine changed frequency to monthly), which incorporates the first 50 years of the magazine. Issues from across all 50 years became available online via Trove in November 2010 and all issues up to and including 15 December 1982 are available online for searching and browsing.   There are approximately 232,000 pages  from 2,569 issues available to users.  Additional information is available in the Library’s media release.

The project was undertaken in association with the publisher of the Australian Women's Weekly, Australian Consolidated Press and with the State
Library of New South Wales
.

Help us with missing issues

As part of the Australian Women's Weekly digitisation project, the Library has checked its holdings to identify any missing issues and seeks public support to fill these gaps. Do you have any old Australian Women's Weekly issues in your shed or under the bed? If you do, you may be able to help us preserve as many of the issues as possible for future generations. The issues required by the Library are listed here. If you have any of these missing issues or would like to discuss this further please contact during business hours-
Julie Whiting,
Manager, Serials Branch
Phone: 1800 059 097 (free call)
Email: jwhiting@nla.gov.au

Alternatively, you can send the issues via post (no stamp required) -
Julie Whiting
National Library of Australia
Reply Paid 202
Kingston, ACT. 2604

The Australian Women's Weekly was digitised by scanning and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) processing. Approximately 232,000 images are keyword searchable through a search and delivery system which will be developed in-house and based on the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program system.

Any queries about this project can be emailed to awwproject@nla.gov.au.

The Australian Women's Weekly was first published in June 1933 and soon after rose to be one of Australia's top selling magazines. When it was first published the magazine appealed to a broad readership as it not only included articles of particular interest to women but also stories and opinion pieces on Australian and world events, such as the rise of Nazism and the treatment of indigenous Australians. The articles, editorials, letters to the editor, advertisements, illustrations and photographs contained in the Australian Women's Weekly offer a unique insight into the social fabric of Australia throughout the 20th century.

This project functioned as a test-bed to inform the development of an ongoing, large-scale journal and book digitisation program for the Library.

The Project will deliver digitised copies of the Australian Women’s Weekly via the Trove delivery service

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