At a time when most people are staying away from public institutions such as museums, dramatically improved access to Australia’s online national archives seems like a no-brainer – but the relaunch of the National Library of Australia (NLA) Trove archive was a long time coming.

Trove debuted in 2008 to provide online access to historical information ranging from photographs and scanned documents to historical family records, 231m magazine articles, and newspapers dating back to 1803.