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Newspapers

Description
Our newspaper collections include digitised historic and modern newspapers accessible online, as well as newspapers in microform and paper formats. We collect:
- Australian newspapers—capital city dailies, major regional city newspapers, a range of other country town newspapers, newspapers published by ethnic groups and political organisations, and newspapers representing special interests. Our Library cooperates with the state and territory libraries through the Australian Newspaper Plan to collect, preserve and provide access to Australian newspapers, with each library taking responsibility for newspapers published in their jurisdiction.
- Overseas newspapers—we have the largest collection of overseas newspapers in Australia. Our newspaper collections from Asia and the Pacific region are particularly strong.
How the collection is arranged
All of our newspapers and newspaper indexes may be found in our catalogue.
Newspaper Indexes Research Guide - contains a select listing of print and microform indexes.
The Print and microfilm newspapers can be accessed in our reading room. Some Australian and overseas newspapers are available online to registered users through databases that the Library subscribes to. Trove provides freely available access to our digitised historic Australian newspapers.
Highlights
Explore our newspapers collection by viewing the highlights below:
- digitised Australian newspapers including the first newspaper published in Australia, the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, freely available through Trove
- online versions of overseas and Australian newspapers through major full-text databases such as: Factiva, the Times Digital Archive, China Core Newspaper Database and many more - available to registered users of the Library
- rare newspapers in print and microfilm such as A voz de Timor, Polynesian gazette, The Canton press.
