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The Sydney Morning Herald now available!

On 1st November 2009 the first 20 years of the Sydney Morning Herald were made publicly available. (The Sydney Herald 1831-1842 and The Sydney Morning Herald 1842-1852). Issues from 1852- 1954 will be added weekly over the next few months.

The Melbourne Argus 1846-1945 complete

The Argus  (and its previous title the Melbourne Argus) from 1846 - 1945 are now completed and available. The remaining 10 years (1945-1954) of the Argus will be made available in 2010 (mid to end of year).

Crowdsourcing - public correct 7 million lines of text!

6000+ members of the public have corrected 7 million lines of newspaper text so far. A big thank you to all those people! The electronically translated text is often poor quality and needing improvement. If you improve the text it makes the text search better for everyone. Help join in with this activity. It is easy, fun and addictive.

8.5 milllion articles now available.

There will be 40 million articles available by 2011. Digitisation continues at an increasing pace...

Inclusion in Google News Archive

Articles from the service have been harvested and are available from the Google News Archive Search.

Inclusion in prototype Single Search Service

Australian Newspapers has been integrated into the Library's Single Search Service prototype model which is available to the public and open for feedback. You can search across mulitple resources in mulitple formats from one interface.

 

 

 

About the program

The National Library of Australia, in collaboration the Australian State and Territory libraries, began a
program in March 2007 to digitise out of copyright newspapers.

In July 2008 the Australian Newspapers was released to the public. This is a free online service that enables full-text searching of newspaper articles. The service includes newspapers published in each state and territory from the 1800s to the mid-1950s, when copyright applies. The first Australian newspaper, published in Sydney in 1803, is included in the service. By 2010 the service will comprise 40 million searchable articles.

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Last updated Friday 20-Nov-2009

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Cover of Australia's first published newspaper, The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 5 March 1803.  Click to access this newspaper online.