Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program

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12 October 2009This 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.

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.

 

Improvement of Digital Content by Users

Users have corrected over 3.4 million lines of electronic text in over 150,000 articles. Over 70,000 tags have been added to articles and many comments about information in articles added. This is fantastic community activity which is improving the content for everyone.

More information about the development of the project can be found here

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