Welcome: today we have officially moved to our new, permanent location - Keesings.com - and we're now live. The site has been over a year in the making, and it is immensely exciting to cut the red tape at last and declare it open. Thanks are due to our developers Squiz.

Sign-ups are now live using the secure Click-and-Buy system, so you're just clicks away from trying full access to our 76-year archive. You can sign up for a day, a month, or a year at a time. Why not try a free search of the database to see how much coverage we have on your topics of interest? Registering allows you full access to our articles, plus a host of research tools: a portfolio in which to save articles of interest; the capacity to write and store annotations with articles; and our groundbreaking tags and clusters systems, which allow you to filter search results by the names of persons or countries that interest you.

If you want a feel for the tone and scope of our coverage, visit the Breaking History section, where we have updated features on Iran's nuclear programme and on avian flu. These features are compiled by an expert Keesing's writer, and sample the full breadth of our archive in light of today's headlines.

We're delighted to be live, and to have the site ready to serve your research. Tell us what you think of us, tell us how we can be better, and tell us how you use us. We'll keep bringing you history as it happens.

This is another busy week on the site, as our developers put the finishing touches on some core features. One is the account creation facility, which will let users sign up to access the site. We're just days away from finishing this - then you'll be able to start researching, read articles, save them to your own portfolio, create and save your own notes and tags, and enjoy the full power of the Keesing's database. We're excited about this: watch this space.

Another nearly complete feature enhances the Clusters facility. Clusters are key to the research possibilities of Keesing's online. They identify and group together references to the content researchers find most useful - the names of people and places. Want to filter your search results to view any articles that mention a particular individual, or refer to a country of interest? Clusters let you do so at a single mouse-click. They also give you an overview of the most important persons related to a given topic, and the countries that are referenced most often in relation to your search term. You can read more about clusters here, and keep watching the blog for details of the feature's full launch.

The developers are also working to enhance your power to search within a single article, while we add extra articles to the database and improve the help files. If there's anything you'd like to see in those files, or elsewhere on the site, please do let us know.

We've made a couple of updates and changes on the site this week, so you should be seeing improved functionality. Our web developers upgraded us to the latest version of MySource Matrix, the Open Source content management system that powers the site. That should mean you'll find the site running very smoothly. It also allowed us to iron out some bugs in our error-reporting system, which allows you to inform us of any problems you come across as you browse the archive. As I'll be discussing in detail later, building this site out of the raw hard-copy of our print publication has been a painstaking and inventive process. If you come across any articles where it hasn't worked as well as it should, we would love to know. Our editorial team in Cambridge can then start trouble-shooting.

The content from the November 2006 print edition is now live online too - and you can read three new Breaking History articles covering developments in France, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Another change you'll see on the front page is the addition of a graphical button for this blog - featuring a genuine photograph of the machine on which this blog is written. Almost...