Australian Newspapers Online 1803-1954

Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (ANDP) ...brought to you by the National Library of Australia

WebWilly loves this this new service. Click on the link and have a look @ The Argus http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ to view copies of

The Argus
The Brisbane Courier
The Canberra Times
The Courier-Mail
The Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter
Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser
The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser
The Mercury
The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal
The South Australian Advertiser
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser

This will be an invaluable tool for Australian Researchers. There are lots of opportunities to contribute by fixing errors,ironing out bugs and read old newspapers at the same time.


The BETA service is freely available to the public and currently contains 73,000 out of copyright newspaper pages (approx 730,000 individual
articles) from 1803 onwards. In order to expand the available content approximately 20,000 digitised newspaper pages will be added each week to the Beta service.

The Library welcomes feedback and suggestions from users of the service to enable further development. 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.







http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home