Apologies for the cross-posting but this is a very useful resource for all Australian researchers. I received the following email from the National Library of Australia (NLA) digitisation project manager. I have written previously about what a valuable tool this project provides for Australian researchers. I have found over 100 references to one of my families which has given me a completely unexpected and delightful view of the life they led. They played what must have been an early version of Qld/NSW footie matches (State of Origin), exported wine to Europe and won medals for their products, helped establish a cricket club in Cessnock (this from a family of German emigrants!!!) and one of my relatives wrote occasional stroppy letters to the editor complaining about a wide variety of things. If you haven't tried the digitisation project I would recommend it highly and it will be interesting to see how the Archive below goes as well. I'd note that as per the email below "The Google viewer does not have the text correction feature." You can still search/browse and tag articles at the NLA project page at: http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home Hope this is useful Anne "Dear newspaper users I am pleased to announce that the Australian Newspapers (beta), and Papers Past (New Zealand) are now available via Google News Archive: http://news.google.com/archivesearch?ned=us&hl=en The Google archive is a sub part of the main Google news page (direct link to archive search from Google news page). Google intends to deliver newspapers via the Google News Archive only (not the main Google) at present. The Google News Archive consists of 3 resource types: 1. Newspapers digitised by Google and available via Google newspaper viewer (launched Sept 2008) 2. Digitised/online newspapers from other organisations that are free or cost and results go direct to those sources eg New York Times, Australian Newspapers beta, Papers Past (NZ), Sydney Morning Herald. 3. News from web sources. As far as I am aware the digitised Australian and New Zealand newspapers are the first non American newspaper content in Google News Archive, so this is a bit of a landmark event for users and for us. As far as I am aware a lot of users are unaware of this as a newspaper resource, though it is very useful. The Google newspaper viewer was developed and released 3 months after we released our beta version. Google programmers took a good look at our beta delivery service (and we had taken a good look at the Google map viewer) so both viewers look remarkably similar. The Google viewer does not have the text correction feature. The easiest way to find the old historical digitised newspapers is to go into 'advance search' and check the 'no price' box, then add your search terms. There is a date filter on the left that lets you find older things since the search seems to default to latest news first even in the archive search. For example search for Sydney Gazette. There is also a timeline option. If you are interested in viewing the digitised papers from Google in the Google newspaper viewer here are the instructions: (we do not know the extent or titles of the Google newspaper digitisation program). How to find Google Digitised Newspapers in the Google viewer: 1. Go to Home Page of Google News Archive http://news.google.com/archivesearch 2. Select Advanced search 3. Man on the moon - all words Check No price 4. In the Results list look for the title of a newspaper followed by - 'Google News Archive' in grey to find those Google have digitised that are available in their viewer. Click the link. The page should open in the viewer. 5. Once an article is found you can cite it by clicking 'link to this article' top right to get a persistent url. e.g. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8KAFAAAAIBAJ&dq=man%20on%20the%20moon&sjid=9TIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6926%2C4212087 OR 1. In advanced search put in the source name eg Rome News Tribune or St. Petersburg Times (we're not sure what other titles they've digitised, can't seem to find a list) and check no price. Put no keywords in search box. Please feel free to promote the Google News Archive and the release of Australian Newspapers into it as appropriate. We have provided a site map for Google to harvest which ensures that useful metadata is visible in the Google results list and that users are taken directly to our article level view. By working with Google in this way we hope to promote wider usage and accessibility of the Australian Newspapers. Manager - Australian Newspaper Digitisation Program (ANDP)"