Digitising World War 1 Victorian Newspapers

The Statewide Public Library Development Project is focused on digitising Victorian newspapers between 1914 and 1918 in time for the centenary of World War 1 in 2014.

The 37 newspaper titles selected in November 2011 are now available online through Trove.
Victoria has well over 100 individual newspaper titles online through Trove, which is a fantastic body of digitised work.

The following newspaper titles relate directly to our library service area:
Advertiser (Hurstbridge, Vic. : 1922 - 1939)
Eltham and Whittlesea Shires Advertiser (Vic. : 1940 - 1942)
Eltham and Whittlesea Shires Advertiser and Diamond Creek Valley Advocate (Vic. : 1917 - 1922)
Evelyn Observer and Bourke East Record (Vic. : 1902 - 1917)
Evelyn Observer, and South and East Bourke Record (Vic. : 1882 - 1902)
Heidelberg News and Greensborough and Diamond Creek Chronicle (Vic. : 1914 - 1916)
Heidelberg News and Greensborough, Eltham and Diamond Creek Chronicle (Vic. : 1916 - 1918)

For titles outside our library service area; see the list of all Victorian titles

As a way of promoting the wonderful range of newspaper titles already available, there are articles being created on Wikipedia with links to the Trove website, for example Evelyn Observer 

People are encouraged to modify, enhance or create a new entry.

Victorian newspapers on Trove

The National Library of Australia is pleased to announce that the following titles from Victoria are now available in Digitised newspapers and more on Trove:

The Ararat advertiser (Vic. : 1914 - 1918)
The Bacchus Marsh Express (Vic. : 1914 - 1918)
Bairnsdale Advertiser and Tambo and Omeo Chronicle (Vic. : 1914 - 1918)
Ballarat courier (Vic. : 1914 - 1918)
Brighton Southern Cross (Vic. : 1914 - 1918)
The Casterton News and the Merino and Sandford Record (Vic. : 1914 - 1918)
The Colac Herald (Vic. : 1914 - 1918)
The Essendon Gazette and Keilor, Bulla and Broadmeadows Reporter (Moonee Ponds, Vic. : 1914 - 1918)
The Horsham Times (Vic. : 1882 - 1954)
Independent (Footscray, Vic. : 1883 - 1922)
Frankston & Somerville Standard (Vic. : 1921 - 1939)
Frankston Standard (Frankston, Vic. : 1949)
The Lilydale Express (Vic. : 1914 - 1918)
Lilydale Express and Yarra Glen, Wandin Yallock, Upper Yarra, Healesville and Ringwood Chronicle (Vic. : 1914)
The McIvor Times and Rodney Advertiser (Heathcote, Vic. : 1914 - 1918)
The Mildura Cultivator (Vic. : 1888 - 1920)
The Prahran Telegraph (Vic. : 1914 - 1918)
The Queenscliff Sentinel (Vic. : 1884 - 1885)
Queenscliff Sentinel, Drysdale, Portarlington & Sorrento Advertiser (Vic. : 1885 - 1894)
Queenscliff Sentinel, Drysdale, St. Leonards, Sorrento, Portsea, Portarlington, Point Lonsdale and Bellarineshire Advertiser
Record (Emerald Hill, Vic : 1914 - 1918)
Reporter (Box Hill, Vic. : 1914 - 1918)
Standard (Frankston, Vic. : 1939 - 1949)
Sunshine Advocate (Vic. : 1924 - 1954)
Warrnambool Standard (Vic. : 1914 - 1918)
Werribee Shire Banner (Vic. : 1911 - 1952)

These titles have been funded by the State Library of Victoria.

To find out the latest titles which have been added to Trove, subscribe to one of our Web feeds. (Scroll to the bottom of the complete list for Victoria)

Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program

The National Library of Australia is pleased to announce the newspapers that are scheduled to be digitised through the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program over the coming year:

Through Trove, the national resource discovery service, there is free online access to over 5 million pages from over 130Australian newspapers. All of the digitised newspapers are fully text-searchable and users can enrich and enhance the data through subject tagging, text correction and annotations.

Titles have been selected by the National Library in consultation with the state and territory libraries. A number of the titles are being digitised with the generous support and funding from a range of organisations. For those libraries and organisations wishing to digitise a specific newspaper title, Contributor Guidelines and a Factsheet provide additional information. If you would like any additional information please email us at austnewsdigiproj@nla.gov.au.

David Ong,
Manager, Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program

Hilary Berthon
Coordinator, Australian Newspaper Plan

Inviting contributions to Australian Newspapers Service

The National Library of Australia is now inviting contributions to its Australian newspapers service.
This service provides free online access to digitised Australian newspapers through Trove, the national resource discovery service.

With 40 million articles from over 100 newspaper titles representing every Australian state and territory scheduled to be in the service by June 2011, Australian newspapers will enable users to explore online an unprecedented quantity and range of Australia’s newspaper heritage. From July 2011, the National Library will be implementing a model which enables other libraries and institutions to fund digitisation of specific newspaper titles.

The Australian newspapers service is part of the Australian Newspaper Plan , a cooperative endeavour through which Australian libraries collect, preserve and provide access to Australian newspapers.

For further information about how to contribute to the Australian newspapers service, please see the Contributor Guidelines (http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/get_involved/documents/ANScontributorguidelines2010final.pdf) and Factsheet (http://www.nla.gov.au/anplan/documents/Benefits_of_ANDP_Model_for_Contributors_000.pdf), or call the National Library on 02 6262 1685.