Thursday, July 18, 2013

NewsVault Newspaper Package

Yarra Plenty Regional Library have subscribed to a new e-resource – NewVault Newspaper PackageWe hope that will prove to be another useful resources for family history researchers.
Access via – www.yrl.vic.gov.au -  e-resources - newspapers and/or
E-resources – Family history and/or
E-Resources – Genealogy – Genealogy e-resources
NewsVault Newspaper Package  is a collection of Gale historical newspapers from the UK .  Search over 10 million digitized facsimile pages,  fully text searchable, view entire pages or individual articles and save, bookmark, e-mail and print results.. Access the following collections via this single search platform or via their individual URLS.
The package includes an amalgamation of some British Newspaper collections we have been subscribing to for a while including Times Digital Archive
The package includes 15 collections:
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection
19th Century British Newspapers
19th Century UK Periodicals
British Newspapers 1600-1900
Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004
Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
Picture Post Historical Archive
The Economist Historical Archive
The Financial Times Historical Archive
The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
The Listener Historical Archive 1929-1991
The Sunday Times Digital Archive
The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
Access in the library and on a home computer with your library card.
Use this collection in addition to the very useful British Newspapers Archive.
If you find these resources useful please let us know.  We would love to hear of any knocked down brick walls or long lost relatives found.

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