Australian Periodical Publications (1840-1845). This site, by the National Library of Australia, provides access to digital copies of Australian serials. Currently over 70 titles are available.
Victoria Government Gazette Online Archive 1836-1997. This fully searchable site contains
digitised images of the New South Wales Government
Gazette (1836-1851), Port Phillip Government
Gazette (1843-1851) and Victoria Government
Gazette (1851-1997).
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Studies. This site offers access to Online
Collections which include the Koori Mail (1991-2011),
Dawn and New Dawn
magazines (1952-1975).
Infokoori.
An index to the Koori Mail from May 1991 plus an
index to biographical information from Our Aim
(1907-1961), Dawn (1952-1969), New Dawn (1970-1975) and Identity (1971-1982). Digitised copies of the Koori Mail (1991-2011), Dawn and New Dawn
magazines (1952-1975) are available on the Australian Institute of Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Studies site above.
Newspapers Overseas
The National Library of Australia
eResources page offers home access to 94+ subscription databases. This free
service is available to anyone residing in Australia who has a National Library
card. You can Apply for a
Library Card online from this site. The card will be mailed to you within
5-10 working days. You then use the number on the card and your surname to
login. Click on the Licenced resources (yellow
keys icon) to access the alphabetical lists of available databases. The
eResources page has an online video that explains how to access
material.
Newspaper collections
include:
The Illustrated London News Historical Archive
1842-2003 (listed under T at NLA)
17th-18th Century Burney Collection
Newspapers
19th Century British Library Newspapers (71 titles) (listed under N
at NLA). A List of Titles , places
covered and date ranges is available.
The Times (London)
Digital Archive 1785-1985
Irish Newspaper Archives - 1763 to the
present (22 titles - see Ireland below)
The Gale
NewsVault offers simultaneous searches of the Gale historical
newspaper collections.
Times Digital Archive
17th and
18th Century Burney Collection
Financial Times Historical
Archive
19th Century British Library Newspapers
19th Century
UK Periodicals
The Illustrated London News Historical Archive
ProQuest Historical Newspapers includes searchable full text, page and article images of:
Chicago
Tribune (1849-1986)
Christian Science Monitor
(1908-1996)
Los Angeles Times (1881-1986)
New York Times
(1851-2006)
The Irish Times (1859-2007) and The Weekly Irish Times
(1876 - 1958)
The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791 - 2003)
(Manchester)
The Scotsman (1817-1950)
The Times of India (1838-2001)
Wall Street
Journal (1889-1992)
Washington Post (1877-1993)
If you live in New
South Wales you can access this collection for free from the State Library of
New South Wales. All you have to do is Register as a Client with
the State Library of New South Wales. Check what remote
access libraries in your state have on offer.
The British Newspaper
Archive. This new ongoing
project currently has 174 titles online with over 3 million newspaper pages available.
The earliest title dates from 1700 and the most current, 1949. It is free
to search with keyword, publication and browse by location
searches available. Filtering options include date, newspaper, region, county and place. A search returns
a sentence or two of the newspaper. A subscription is needed
to access the digitised page. This site offers several subscription
packages including a 12 month subscription (£79.95) which gives unlimited access to every
page in the archive. Alternatively there are 30 day (3000 credits
- £29.95) and 2 day (500 credits
- £6.95) pay-per-view packages. New
Gazettes - This sites offers
access to the official newspapers of the United Kingdom government, the
Edinburgh Gazette, the London Gazette and the Belfast
Gazette, These gazettes offers access to insolvency data, bankruptcy,
public and legal notices plus honours and awards (for government, business or
individuals).
Onlinenewspapers.com. This site is searchable for
online newspapers by geographic region.
World
Newspapers. A searchable directory of online newspapers, magazines and news
sites.
Internet Library of Early Journals. Digitised 18th
century journals include
The Annual Register, Gentleman's Magazine
and
Philosophical Transactions of
the Royal Society.
19th century journals include
Notes and Queries (covers
genealogy),The
Builder
and Blackwood's Edinburgh
Magazine .
Ireland
Irish Newspaper Archives. This subscription site offers access to over 6
million pages from Irish national and regional newspapers. A free keyword search
is available and fees apply to access to digitized copies of the newspapers.
Australian residents can access this site for free from
home through the
National Library of Australia
eResources.
Titles
available include:
Anglo-Celt (Cavan and surrounding
counties, Monaghan, Leitrim, Meath, Westmeath, Fermanagh, Louth and
Longford, 1846-2011)
City Tribune
(Galway, 1984-2011)
Connacht Sentinel
(Galway, 1927-2011)
Connacht Tribune (Galway, 1909-2011)
Connaught Telegraph (Mayo
and surrounding counties, 1975-2011)
Donegal News (Donegal,
1980-2011)
Finns
Leinster Journal (Kilkenny, 1771-1828)
Freeman's Journal (National, 1763-1924)
Irish Farmers Journal
(National, 1957-1998)
Irish Independent (National, 1905-2011)
Irish Press (National 1931-1960)
Kerryman (Kerry,
1950-2011)
Leitrim
Observer (Leitrim, 1904-1998)
Meath Chronicle (Meath, Westmeath and Cavan,
1897-2011)
Munster
Express (Waterford, 1908-2011)
The Nation (National, 1842-1897)
The Nenagh Guardian (North
Tipperary, 1838-2011)
Sunday Independent (National, 1906-2011)
Southern Star (Cork,
1892-2011)
Tuam
Herald (Galway, 1837-2000)
Westmeath Examiner (Westmeath, 1882-2011).
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
includes searchable full text, page and article images of:
The
Irish Times (1859-2007) and The Weekly Irish Times (1876 -
1958)
If you live in New South Wales you
can access this collection for free from the State Library of New South Wales.
All you have to do is Register as a Client with
the State Library of New South Wales. Check what
remote access libraries in your state have on offer.
Scotland
ProQuest Historical Newspapers includes
searchable full text, page and article images of:
The
Scotsman (1817-1950)
If you live in New South Wales you can access this
collection for free from the State Library of New South Wales. All you have to
do is Register
as a Client with the State Library of New South Wales. Check what remote
access libraries in your state have on offer.
www.nla.gov.au/app/eresources
The
National Library of Australia eResources page offers home access to 102+
subscription databases. This free service is available to anyone residing in
Australia who has a National Library card. You can apply for a library card
online from this site. The card will be mailed to you within 5-10 working days.
You then use the number on the card and your surname to login. Click on the
Licenced resources (yellow keys icon) to access a list of available
databases. Scottish material available includes the following newspapers: (Click
on the letter N on the alphabetical bar for access)
19th Century British
Newspapers by Title/Variant Title, City, start and end dates
Aberdeen Journal, Aberdeen, 1 Jan 1800 to 23 Aug 1876
Aberdeen
Weekly Journal, 30 Aug 1876 to 31 Dec 1900
Caledonian Mercury,
Edinburgh, 1 Jan 1800 to 27 Aug 1859
The Caledonian Mercury and Daily
Express, 29 Aug 1859 to 21 Feb 1860
The Caledonian Mercury, 22 Feb 1860 to
20 Apr 1867
Chartist Circular, Glasgow, 28 Sep 1839 to 18 Sep
1841Glasgow Herald, Glasgow, 4 Feb 1820 to 31 Dec 1900
Dundee
Courier, Dundee, 2 Jan 1844 to 19 Apr 1861
Dundee Courier and
Daily Argus, 22 Apr 1861 to 14 Apr 1862
The Dundee Courier &
Argus, 15 Apr 1862 to 15 Nov 1899
The Dundee Courier & Argus and
Northern Warder, 10 Jan 1873 to 11 May 1886
Newspaper Indexes
Australia
The
Ryerson Index is an
index to death notices appearing in current Australian newspapers. It also
includes some funeral notices, probate notices and obituaries. This
ongoing project currently contains over 3.4+ million entries
from 199 newspapers including the
Adelaide Advertiser (2001-),
Brisbane Courier Mail (2000-), Canberra
Times (2003-), Hobart Mercury (2008-), Melbourne The Age (1998-),
Melbourne Herald Sun (2003-), Northern Territory News (2009-), Sydney
Morning Herald (1831-), Sydney
Mail (1860-1889) and Sydney Daily Telegraph (1936-)
plus numerous country newspapers. Updated
News Limited. Click Public Notices - Announcements for current birth, death, marriage and funeral notices from the The Australian, Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph, Courier-Mail, The Advertiser, The Mercury and others.
Fairfax Newspapers offers access to Notices (births, deaths, funerals, in memoriams, engagements and marriages) for one week. Includes the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age (Melbourne), Illawarra Mercury (Wollongong), the Newcastle Herald & Post and community newspapers (Sydney).
News Store offers searches of Fairfax publications including the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age (Melbourne), Illawarra Mercury (Wollongong) Central Coast Herald (Gosford/Wyong) and the Newcastle Herald from 1990 to today. It is free to search but a small charge applies to view the full text of an article.
National Library of Australia Online Index to the Argus (Melbourne) 1870-1879. The index can be browsed or keyword searched. This site does not provide online access to the full text of the paper.Old News Copy offers indexes to random years of 55+ Victorian newspapers from 1840s onwards. A search returns name, year, area and publication. Copies of relevant pages are available for a small fee.
Infoquick
is a selective index to the Sydney Morning Herald, Sun
Herald, Good Weekend, Eastern Herald and Northern Herald from January 1988 to June
2005.
LINC Tasmania
brings together the State Library of Tasmania, the
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office (TAHO) and others. TAHO
online indexes include:
Sydney Morning Herald In Memoriam Indexes by Ken Campbell are searchable by surname.
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