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The Papers Past website is a treasure trove of historical information, featuring millions of digitised pages from New Zealand and the Pacific. Discover how to search and explore these full-text materials for your research or school project. Dive into history today.

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Navigating Papers Past

There are lots of ways to find items in Papers Past. On this page we focus on techniques and tools that will help you successfully browse each of the collections on the website.

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Searching Papers Past

A guide to searching the Papers Past collection of text items from New Zealand and the Pacific. Includes information about ways to find in te reo Māori content from 1815 to1900.

Te whakamahi rauemi a Papers Past

Using Papers Past material

Papers Past provides a range of tools to help you use what you've found; from printing material, to citing sources, downloading a copy of an item, managing copyright or creating something with the open data

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Text corrections

The text corrections feature lets you correct Optical Character Recognition (OCR) text to match the original image text. Read our editing guidelines. Find out how to start correcting text today.

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Create a Papers Past account

Create a Papers Past account to use the text correction feature. Help us improve Papers Past search accuracy by correcting Optical Character Recognition (OCR) text errors to align with the original image text.

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Copyright guide

Information about the copyright of material on Papers Past including; the reuse of content, how to credit content and the use of Māori content.