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:

Screenshot of "View all articles on this page" button in Newspaper viewer

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:

Next and Previous article selection buttons in Newspaper viewer

 

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  in the side bar. Select the button again to access the text pane.

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.

Learn more about tags

  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.

Learn more about lists

  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.

Learn more about notes

  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.

Learn more about downloading

   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 

Print a copy of the page or article.

Learn more about printing

  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.