Newspaper and Gazettes Viewer
Trove’s Newspaper and Gazettes Viewer allows users to view and navigate digitised newspapers and gazettes, correct text transitions, add tags and notes to articles, add articles to lists, and download or order copies of digitised collections held at the National Library of Australia.
Explore this page to learn all you need to know to take full advantage of this function.
Using the Viewer
Browse newspapers and gazettes using the following features in the viewer:
View all articles on a page
To view all the articles on the page that your search result appears on (so the page in its entirety) look to the transcript panel on the left had side of the viewer.
On the row of buttons along the top of the panel, select the button:
You can browse the whole page, with all available articles listed in the Transcript panel. Select a title to view the article.
Once you are browsing the entire page, you can choose to go back to viewing a single article by selecting its title.
Next / Previous articles
Browse articles using the Left and Right Arrow
buttons. This will take you to the previous or next article in publication order:
Multi-page articles
Some articles will be printed across two or more pages.
While the article is selected, select the Article text
button on the Sidebar to view text for all pages in the article text column.Thumbnail images of all the pages are shown at the bottom left of the article viewer. Select a thumbnail to view the page.
Images
Images in an article will appear in the article text column as the following icon:
These include photographs, illustrations, drawings, graphs and cartoons.
Select this icon to highlight the image in the article text column.
Viewer Controls
The Trove viewer controls allow you to zoom, rotate and navigate your search result. Located in the left- and right-hand sides of the viewer, the controls include –
Reset zoom: Reset the zoom level to the original size.
Zoom in
or out Zoom in and out of the page.Rotate right
or left Rotate the page 90 degrees.Maximise viewer size: View the page in full screen mode. Select again to return to viewer mode.
Panning (moving the page around the screen):
- Click and hold anywhere on the page to drag it around.
- Double-click on the page to centre on that point and zoom in.
- Use the navigator in the bottom right corner of the viewer by dragging the yellow box around on the page.
Re-size and hide the Article text pane:
- Select the dividing bar between the text pane and the article viewer and drag the bar to the desired width.
- Hide the text pane by selecting the Article text button n the side bar. Select the button again to access the text pane.
Sidebar Tools
Use the sidebar tools to find out more information on your Trove search result in addition to various options and functionalise for accessing it.
Article text
Read the electronically translated text for the article. This can be edited by selecting the
Match text button.Learn more about text correcting
Cite
Get information about the item you are viewing, such as title, issue and other bibliographic details to use in a citation.
Learn more about citing sources found on Trove
Tags
View or add a tag - a short descriptive term that you can easily associate with the article. Tags are useful in marking out names or events using common terminology.
Lists
See which lists this article or page appears in, or add the article or page to a list. Note: to add to or view your private lists you must be logged in to Trove.
Notes
View or add notes relating to the article that provides additional context. Notes can also be used to highlight issues with the text or suggestions for further research.
Categories
View the original and additional categories for the article and add additional categories.
Learn more about adding categories
Download
Download digital copies in available formats. Check copyright status.
Buy
Order a copy of the image. You can order standard or higher resolution images. All copy orders are referred to the National Library of Australia’s Copies Direct service. If an item is in copyright you may require permission from the copyright holder to obtain a copy.
Learn more about getting copies
Print a copy of the page or article.
Toggle Layout
Change the display location of the sidebar information pane from the left column to a row at the bottom of the screen.
Page Numbering
Page numbers in Trove indicate the order that the pages appear in the newspaper rather than the printed page number.
This means that the page number in the viewer will be different from the printed page number, especially in cases such as:
- A second edition or supplement with separate page numbering has been included within the sequence of the newspaper.
- The use of non-standard numbering for the newspaper e.g. page 4a
Poor Quality Articles
Newspaper and gazettes in Trove are often digitised from a microfilm copy, rather than the original printed pages, and reflect the quality of the microfilm.
It is not technically feasible to replace poor quality pages, even when it is possible to find a better-quality copy of the original.