National Library of Australia – Online Databases

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 3:11 am

National Library of Australia.

Access to free databases from home.

News arrived this morning from the Society of Australian Genealogists that the National Library of Australia has a huge list of 60 databases available to home users. They must be residents of Australia.

These include House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 19th Century British Library Newspapers, the Times Digital Archive [1785-1985] and a ton of other stuff I’m not very familiar with.

It all seems too good to be true and I'll believe it when I get my library card and try it out.

Click on Licenced Resources, you'll see British Library Newspapers, for example, on Page 6. See the Get a Library Card link at top right. http://www.nla.gov.au/app/eresources/

Get yours,
Alan

trish1 · Post by **trish1** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:25 pm

I have my card & am somewhat bewildered by the range of information available. A friend found me some information about an 1833 paddle steamer in Glasgow - amid the group "Project Muse". I am not at all sure I would ever have found it on my own

Trish

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:24 pm

Hello Trish,

I think that’s about the last place I would have looked for anything under the sun. It would be handy if you could customise the 60 so as to only show the ones you’re interested in. Although I guess I could set that up as a folder in my bookmarks.

All the best,
Alan

Post by **SarahND** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:13 pm

Hi Trish,
They had a subscription to "Project Muse" at the university where I used to teach. I thought it was current scholarly journal articles... so you could theoretically find something on just about any topic, provided someone wrote an article on it!

Regards,
Sarah

trish1 · Post by **trish1** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 3:19 am

Hi Sarah

I'm sure you are correct - and discussing the matter further I discover (as often) google is the answer - google found the information via a site that wanted a subscription to project muse - and then, the library has the needed subscription

Trish