Retrospective Australian newspapers - digitised and searchable on the web.
The Australian Newspapers Digitisation program, coordinated by the National Library of Australia, has launched a Beta service which has been made publicly accessible. This provides an opportunity to anyone who uses newspapers for any purpose, to have an unprecedented level of search capacity of a digital version of content relating to every day Queensland and Australian history.
The Courier Mail 1846-1899 and 1933-34 is the Queensland content being made available as the first stage of the project. The BETA service is freely available to the public and currently contains 73,000 out of copyright newspaper pages with approximately 730,000 individual articles. In order to expand the available content approximately 20,000 digitised newspaper pages will be added each week to the Beta service.
 The link to the BETA version of the new release of digitised retrospective Australian newspapers is at http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home.
Feel free to review the service with focus on its useability and user friendliness. Once having navigated the service, anyone can comment directly in the comments field at http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/about. Beta will have additional functionality and changes based on consideration of your feedback.
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Pingback by » Retrospective Australian newspapers - digitised and searchable on … — 18 August, 2008 @ 11:02 am
Take a look at what http://www.nambour-chronicle.com is doing. It’s an archive of the Nambour Chronicle & North Coast Advertiser first published in 1903.
Comment by Ky — 10 September, 2008 @ 1:55 pm