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Learn how to find newspapers and other news sources

Best databases for older newspapers

These digital archive databases contain news content and images. They provide digitised (scanned) reproductions of the original newspaper pages as printed.

Finding other full-text archives of older newspapers:

Are all older newspapers digitised?

Not all older newspapers are digitised for all years. Many Australian papers from the 1950s-80s are not available online.

For newspapers published...

  • from the 1990s onwards, the majority are digitised but many provide the article text only (no images).
  • between 1950s-1980s, only a few have been digitised (historians call this period our "20th Century black hole").
  • before the mid 1950s, many have been digitised and more titles are becoming available all the time.
     

Can't find that older newspaper full-text online?

If you need to search older newspapers not available online check the tips and indexes listed on our Additional newspaper databases page.

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