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 three 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.The digitised Australian and New Zealand newspapers are the first non American newspaper content in Google News Archive, so this is a landmark event for users.
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 Archivehttp://news.google.com/archivesearch2. Select Advanced search3. Man on the moon - all words Check No price4. 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%2C4212087OR1. In advanced search put in the source name eg Rome News Tribune or St. Petersburg Times and check no price. Put no keywords in search box.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 the article level view. This will promote wider usage and accessibility of the Australian Newspapers.
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