Some major Australian newspapers are available at the Library on CD-ROM at selected work stations in the Newspaper Reading Room. The CD-ROMs provide the full text of most articles and sometimes provide captions for tables or illustrations.
Exact coverage varies between newspapers.
The Library also holds or has access to printed and electronic indexes of major Australian newspapers. The indexes provide references to articles on a wide range of topics. Infoquick , an index to articles in The Sydney Morning Herald 1988- provided on the Internet by the State Library of New South Wales. A complete list of indexes held in the Library is available at the Newspaper Desk and will soon be available on the Library Web site. It is organised by decade back to the 1780s by newspaper title.