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Free Access to the Sydney Morning Herald Digital Edition & Archives (normally $500+/year) for State Library of NSW Cardholders

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Free Access to the Sydney Morning Herald Digital Edition & Archives (normally $500+/year) for State Library of NSW Cardholders
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mubd1234 on 11/09/2017 - 16:34 www2.sl.nsw.gov.au (1895 clicks)
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If you hold a State Library of NSW card (free for NSW residents), you can access these great resources. Click here to sign up for a card

The Sydney Morning Herald Digital Edition is a digital copy of the printed newspaper. It includes all issues of the SMH from 2006 up to and including today's. A subscription to this service normally costs around $139 a year.

The Sydney Morning Herald Archives is a digital copy of editions of the Sydney Morning Herald from 1955 to February 1995. An annual subscription for this service normally costs $395 a year.

For existing library card holders, the login system is very simple. All you need is your library card number. There are no passwords.

And a tip for those who wish to browse the SMH Archives for free and are not eligible for the SLNSW membership, or would rather not wait for the card to arrive, try examining the URL for the SMH Archives on the SLNSW EResources page which carries certain sensitive information in plain text. Then take a close look at the login box on this page. EDIT: The State Library has now changed the login method.

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  • smiles on 11/09/2017 - 16:49
    +8

    Did a quick search on smh archives and and got this result which is interesting ;)

    Sat July 12th , 1986
    PYMBLE $122,900 4 BEDROOM HOME FIRST HOME BUYERS

    • Turd on 11/09/2017 - 16:51

      Cheap!! SYDNEY HOUSE PRICES for bargain!

    • homersyd on 11/09/2017 - 17:17

      now if only there is a time machine… :(

      • idonotknowwhy on 11/09/2017 - 19:14
        +3

        Were there such a thing, you'd buy some BTC in 2010 instead :)

        • abb on 12/09/2017 - 10:46

          ¿Por que no los dos?

        • idonotknowwhy on 12/09/2017 - 10:52

          @abb: Because you'll change the timeline too much. If you buy a house, someone else will buy a different house, or not buy one. You'll change too many people's lives. Butterfly effect.

          But if you buy 10000 BTC in 2010, the effect on the timeline will be very minor (especially if you do it gradually) compared with buying a house in 1986 and changing a the life of a family, their friends, etc.

          Edit: P.S. I didn't meant to down-vote you. Clicked by mistake and it won't let me remove it. Sorry.

        • Zenyatta on 12/09/2017 - 17:14
          +1

          @idonotknowwhy: I upvoted them to neutralise your downvote :-3

        • idonotknowwhy on 12/09/2017 - 17:25

          @Zenyatta: thanks

    • Findo on 11/09/2017 - 17:56

      My parents are still kicking themselves for not buying in Mosman in the early 1990s

      • expertreader on 11/09/2017 - 21:41

        Hindsight is a bit¢h…

    • abc on 11/09/2017 - 19:49
      +1

      A lot of money for back then. You could have gotten the equivalent in Putney for around 1/3 of that price.

      • abb on 12/09/2017 - 10:47

        But then you'd have to live in Putney for 30 years

  • bluetongue on 11/09/2017 - 17:08
    +2

    You can also register your local library card and read the newspapers and other e-resources accessible from the State Library using the number on the back of your library card.

  • heal on 11/09/2017 - 17:46
    -4

    Any decent newspapers or has Clover blocked them?

    • mubd1234 on 11/09/2017 - 18:04
      +2

      There are quite a few digital versions of expensive magazines (cars, computers, etc.) available here.

      http://www.pressreader.com.ezproxy.sl.nsw.gov.au/catalog/aus…

      It used to have the Daily Telegraph and The Australian until Murdoch got wind that people were getting something for free. But here's the good news - it's been replaced by The Guardian's Australian edition!

      • heal on 11/09/2017 - 18:59
        +1

        Thanks, I think I'll pass. I can get the Get Up emails as well as ABC news online for free too so I don't really need to read The Guardian or the SMH

      • entropy on 11/09/2017 - 20:31

        Thanks OP - I've had more help from you in a few seconds than I had from the librarians in many minutes, when it comes to Library eResources.

  • BearerOfDadNews on 11/09/2017 - 17:49

    Looks like ozb broke their site !
    Getting a site under maintenance error.

  • alvian on 11/09/2017 - 18:42
    +4

    Nothing worthwhile happened between March 1996 and December 2005?

  • atlas on 11/09/2017 - 18:48
    +2

    Anything similar for vic?

    • Sega on 12/09/2017 - 01:18

      See my post below

  • mjtom on 11/09/2017 - 21:38

    The archives seem a bit hard to read. The zoom is not very effective.

    • howdydood on 12/09/2017 - 07:11

      Double click an article when it's highlighted in yellow - a new window opens with full size text easy to read

      • mjtom on 12/09/2017 - 07:58

        Thanks!

  • RichardMelbourne on 11/09/2017 - 21:56

    For some reason I thought it would give you access to all of the articles on the SMH website - not just essentially a digital version of the actual newspaper, which seems pretty hard to read on a phone.

    But thanks, OP.

    • Easton on 12/09/2017 - 10:09
      +3

      You can easily bypass SMH's article limit - just open an incognito/private window.

  • Sega on 12/09/2017 - 01:18
    +1

    Can do the same thing in Vic for The Age newspaper if you become an emember of the Melbourne City library http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/community/libraries/using-th… look under cardless memberships on this page. or check your local library. its not an app, its a browser based turn the page electronic version of the as printed edition. Works fine on an ipad but easier on a desktop.

  • mathematicalcoffee on 12/09/2017 - 09:04
    +1

    Love the SMH cryptic crossword - good intro to cryptics before attempting the harder ones like Guardian/Times (and Lovatt's cryptics are a stepping stone to the SMH cryptic, but can be so simple so as not to help you at all in the SMH/Guardian/Times)

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