Standalone service - Australian Newspapers v1.0 : http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/
Trove beta service - Newspapers integrated with other content: http://trove.nla.gov.au/
Trove beta service - Newspapers home page: http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home
Australian Newspapers Search was released to the public on 25 July 2008 as a beta version. It underwent development for a year after release in its beta version. In August 2009 a major upgrade to the text correction functionality took place and the word 'beta' was removed from the interface. This is now the standalone Australian Newspapers v1.0
In mid 2009 another project started to integrate searching of newspapers with other resources. This is the Trove beta service. The advantage of using Trove is that you can search across other resources at the same time as newspapers. This could be useful if you are looking for information on a person. Trove has integrated access to over 42 million metadata and text resources from a range of the National Library's collaborative services and from elsewhere. Included in the Trove beta are the following data sources: the Australian National Bibliographic Database, Australian Newspapers beta, Picture Australia, Australian Research Online , PANDORA, OAIster, Open Library, the Hathi Trust, the Internet Archive and the Library of Congress tables of contents, publishers' descriptions and sample book chapters.
A feedback form is available at the bottom of each page of the Trove beta.
Search results for newspapers are the same whichever service you are in. For those newspaper users that are doing text correction, tagging or adding comments you are able to do these functions in either service and the changes will be applied in the single database. There is no difference in Australian newspaper functionality in either service. Both services are using the same single database behind the scenes. It is intended to fully integrate Australian Newspapers into Trove by December 2009 and then remove the standalone service. Read more information here:
ANDP_AN and Trove integration v1
Last updated Thursday 12-Nov-2009