National Archives Online Public Access BETA Review | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics

The National Archives has always been a great source of PDF and other non-fiction documents for my eBook reader.  Escape and Evasion reports, WPA guides, After-Action Reports, all of these have made for some interesting reading.  However, navigating the archives and the ARC (Archival Research Catalog) to find new items has always been somewhat challenging.

No more!  Stopping by the site in the last few weeks, I’ve noticed big changes in how you can search for electronic items for download.  If you go to the Online Public Access Prototype, link at http://www.archives.gov/research/search/, a massively streamlined search portal is now available for use.