The collection of old Australian newspapers digitised and available on Trove continues to grow. It was back in July when I last gave you an update of what was new and coming, so it was time to recheck their list. While they don’t seem to to be scanning as quickly as they have in the […] Continue reading → 
Historical newspapers are a truly incredible resource for family historians, and for British ones the place to go is the British Newspaper Archive. And now they’ve just introduced a new 3 month subscription option. Continue reading → 
Vicfix is a initiative started by the State Library of Victoria, with the aim of getting more people involved in fixing the Victorian newspapers on Trove. As we all know as more is corrected, more is found. So can you help out? Continue reading → Just a few months ago the project hit a big milestone by reaching 20 million pages scanned. This is halfway mark of the proposed 40 million pages. Now the British Newspaper Archive is thrilled to announce it has reached another milestone in their project … Continue reading → 
During the past three months Trove has added over 5 million entries to their old newspapers collection, taking the current total to over 211 million records, These records are all online, and all free for everyone to use. Continue reading → 
The British Newspaper Archive is a resource that has hundreds of millions of incredible stories just waiting to be found. You can now search hundreds of millions of articles by keyword, name, location, date or title and watch your results appear in an instant. Whether you are a researcher, historian or you simply want to know […] Continue reading → 
It was back in January when I last gave you an update of what was new and coming on Trove, so it was time to recheck their list. And you’ll see the digitisation team at the National Library of Australia continue to keep busy scanning, adding new (old) newspapers to the ever-expanding online archive. Continue reading → The National Library of Australia’s Trove website contains a vast collection of Australian historical newspapers? But how do you find what you’re after? Type in a name and see what comes up? Well, there’s more to it than that, so here’s a few tips for you. Continue reading → 
The digitisation team at the National Library of Australia continue to keep busy scanning, adding new (old) newspapers to the ever-expanding Trove. The Trove website currently contains a total of over half a billion (526,562,533) records … Continue reading → Finally some good news Trove. Yesterday the Federal Government announced that “Trove will receive $16.4 million over the next four years from 2016-17.” This will be for the digitisation of records, and upgrade of infrastructure. Continue reading → News from the National Library of Australia’s historical newspaper department on Trove has been on the quiet side for a number of months. But with major funding cuts as well as loss of staff and services, it’s not surprising. While it’s sad to see the preservation of such an important part of Australia’s history being […] Continue reading → 
For the past few months the folks over in the old newspapers department of the National Library of Australia have worked hard to bring us a batch of fabulous new (old) newspapers to view online! Continue reading → Christmas 2015 has been and gone, and so has the new year and Trove’s old newspaper digitisation team are no longer in holiday mode, as they have set themselves an amazing schedule to digitise almost 100 newspapers during the next six months. The newspaper titles listed below are those that are scheduled to be on […] Continue reading → 