Australia: The Ryerson Index contains publication information about more than 5 million death notices from 281 Australian newspapers, ranging from 1803 to the present. The majority of the entries are from New South Wales, but other parts of the country do have coverage.
Brazil: An older archive of Diario de Pernambuco, covering 1825–1924, is now available to go with the modern archive. Maybe at some point the mid-20th century will be added?
Brazil: The Diarios Oficiais ("Official Gazettes") of several cities and states are online.
British Columbia, Canada: There are three new links for British Columbia, one index and two sets of transcriptions. The index is for Victoria newspapers from 1858–1936 and includes BMD announcements, general news articles, and more. The Qualicum Beach Family History Society has transcribed obituaries from many newspapers in the Parkville and Qualicum area from 1948–1994. The second set of transcriptions is mostly BMD notices from British Columbia newspapers from 1861–1875.
Manitoba, Canada: The Manitoban, the student publication for the University of Manitoba, is available for 1914–2012. The Winnipeg Tribune archive currently covers 1890–1950, 1957–1960, and 1969, but there are plans to digitize and upload the missing years.
Québec, Canada: McGill University student publications from 1875–2001 are on Internet Archive. They include the McGill Gazette, McGill Fortnightly, McGill Outlook, Martlet, and McGill Daily.
Saskatchewan, Canada: The Saskatchewan Obituaries Project is digitized scrapbooks of obituary clippings.
Canada (national): The Drouin Institute has an online collection of transcribed obituaries from throughout Canada. The site and the obituaries are all in French.
China: Four more Shanghai papers published by the Jewish refugee community, three in German and one in English, have been added to Internet Archive.
Ireland: PDF's of bound volumes of the Dublin Gazette from the 1750's to around 1800 can be downloaded from the Oireachtas Library Web site. The Connolly Association has made available The Irish Democrat and its predecessor, Irish Freedom.
Japan: The entire run (1897–2014) of the Japan Times, an English-language newspaper, has been digitzed and is available as a paid subscription through an outside agency. This is probably designed as an institutional subscription only, but I can't find the site, only the marketing materials.
United Kingdom: A generous person has created two Google Custom Searches: one for all the national British newspapers, and a second that includes 384 local, city, and regional papers.
Arkansas: The Ashley County Ledger has an obituary index and transcriptions for 1965 to the present. The Pine Bluff/Jefferson County Library has an obituary index for local newspapers from the 1820's to the present.
Connecticut: The Ferguson Library has provided an index to obituaries appearing in seven Stamford newspapers from 1830 to the present.
Georgia: The Digital Library of Georgia has added two new collections: Southern Voice, an LGBT publication, for 1988–1995; and six West Georgia historic newspapers covering 1843–1942.
Hawaii: Two student publications from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa are now online: Ka Leo o Hawaiʻi, a newspaper, for 1922–1949 and 2002–2010; and Ka Palapala, kind of a student annual, for the 1920's to the 1960's.
Idaho: The Gooding County Historical Society has a page with downloadable Excel files with obituary indices for Gooding County from 1946–1947 and 1980–2011.
Illinois: Illinois Wesleyan University has digitized student publications ranging from 1870 to the present. The Illinois Digital Archives has added the Huntley Farmside for 1960–2000 and two collections relating to World War II: The Herald (for Melrose Park and area) for 1941–1945, and clippings and index cards relating to servicemen from Park Ridge.
Indiana: The Tell City–Perry County Public Library has an obituary index for 2010–2014. The Torch, the Valparaiso University student newspaper, has been digitized for 1914–1992.
Iowa: Granville and Newspaper Archive have worked together to place four Granville newspapers and a scrapbook collection online.
Louisiana: Centenary College of Louisiana, in Shreveport, has four student publications online covering 1899 to the present, including one published in French.
Massachusetts: If you had whalers in your family, you'll want to look at this. The Whalemen's Shipping List and Merchants' Transcript for 1843–1914, published in New Bedford, is online courtesy of the National Maritime Digital Library.
Montana: The Columbia Falls Columbian for 1891–1925 (I believe it is the complete run) has been digitized by Veridian.
New Jersey: A scattering of issues of the Newark Sunday Call from 1871–1881 and 1881–1946 are available in two separate collections from Google News Archive.
Ohio: The Cleveland Jewish News Digital Archive has added a few more historical Cleveland Jewish newspapers to its database. The Cleveland Public Library has two indices on its site for several Cleveland newspapers, one for death notices and one for general news items. Ohio Memory, the state digitization project, has added several newspapers to its collection.
Tennessee: This one's a little different. The Knox County Public Library has digitized and posted two years of the Knoxville News-Sentinel as a sample to motivate people to donate to a fundraiser to raise enough money for NewsBank to digitize the newspaper for the years 1922–1990. The two years available are 1940 and 1982 (no idea how those years were chosen). What I'm particularly curious about is whether the newspaper is planned to be available as a NewsBank subscription, since the library is raising the funds.
Texas: Some death notices and news items were transcribed from two Arlington newspapers and put together as books, which have now been scanned and can be downloaded from the Arlington Public Library Web site. The Dallas Voice, an LGBT newspaper, has been scanned for 1964 to the present and is available through the Portal to Texas History. And Lamar University student publications from 1933 to the present have been digitized and are on the university library site.
United States (national): Obituary Central is an index to obituaries from throughout the country. Warning: When you first go to the page you get an annoying pop-up ad.
It's interesting how digital partnerships work (or don't). The Poughkeepsie Journal is online again, on its third host site. I first found the historical Journal on Ancestry.com. Then the license apparently expired, and it was not available for a couple of years. Next it appeared on Footnote.com. When Ancestry bought Footnote's parent company, it was unable to work out a license with ProQuest, which had created the digital archive of the newspaper. The digital Journal has been offline for several years, collecting virtual dust on a virtual back shelf somewhere at ProQuest, and even the Journal didn't have access to it. But now Ancestry.com and Gannett, the Journal's owner, have redigitized the newspaper, through to the present, and it's on Newspapers.com. You can read a little more about the current situation at Dick Eastman's blog.
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