The Library will supply a digital surrogate in place of the original physical item where possible within copyright and other rights obligations.

The National Library is a reference library - you can use collection items in our reading rooms but you can't take them home.

You can buy copies of items in our collections found in the Catalogue or on Trove. We offer digital copies of newspaper articles, book chapters, photographs, maps, manuscripts, music, sound recordings, and they will be sent to you online.

Special collections material may have restrictions around use.

Copyright law applies to Indigenous works in the same way as it applies to other works, however there may be additional legal and cultural issues.

While we don’t sell original newspapers, you can create a scan or photocopy onsite or order a digital copy online. 

The Library will supply a digital surrogate in place of the original physical item where possible within copyright and other rights obligations.

This Discovery Video unravels the often tricky world of copyright and exceptions that cover educational and research use.

Content published on this website is copyright.

Legal and ethical requirements apply when copying, re-using or publishing material from the Library's collections