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.