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ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest)
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Full text articles from international business, management and technology journals.
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Address to Queen Victoria, 1897
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Address presented to Queen Victoria from public school pupils in the Auckland Education District.
Academic Research Library (ProQuest) 
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Contains fulltext articles on a wide range of popular academic subjects.
Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)
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Contains fulltext articles and references from journals that cover a wide range of academic subjects.
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Ancestry Library 
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The most comprehensive online source of information for conducting genealogical and local history research available. Includes census, vital statistics, church, military, court, land, probate, immigration, and naturalization records.
Note: Do not install the new viewer if prompted. If prompted to install the viewer click “To continue without installing the Ancestry Image Viewer, click here.”
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ANZ Newsstand (ProQuest)
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A selection of full-text newspapers and newswires from Australia and New Zealand covering regional and international topics.
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Armed Constabulary of New Zealand 1867-1877
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This database contains further information about constables in the Armed Constabulary. It covers the period from 1867 to 1871, and lists 3,281 names, including members of the Native Constabulary.
Asian Business and Reference (ProQuest)
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Contains the latest business and financial news from Asia.
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Auckland Art Gallery Collection 
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Access to over 12,000 works of art, 9000 of which have attached images. Highlights include: Contemporary Māori Art, European Showcase, Victorian Paintings, Chartwell Collection, Portraits of Māori, Views of Auckland, European Modernists.
Auckland Area Passenger Arrivals 1838-1886 and 1909-1921
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Indexes New Zealand herald reports of Auckland area inward passengers for the period 1838 to 1886, with a few for 1887 - 1889. You can also search Papers Past for “shipping intelligence“ and other passenger lists, eg. for the New Zealander to 1852 and the Southern Cross to 1876.
Auckland Area Passenger Vessels 1838-1886
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Provides details of particular ships including information on the name of the Captain, ship's tonnage and the port of origin.
Auckland City Public Artworks 
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Information about public artworks within Auckland City boundaries including sculpture, paintings, murals, and temporary installations.
Auckland City Street Names
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Locations, former names and origin of names if known.
Auckland Crown Grants
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The original land grants for the inner Auckland area. Names the original purchasers of land in the Auckland central business district, and gives the section and lot numbers, area and year.
Auckland Police Census 1842-1846
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Census of Auckland area households and their inhabitants.
Audio books - Downloadable Media
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Download eAudio books to your computer, transfer them to a portable device, or burn them onto a CD. Includes fiction and non-fiction titles, as well as books for children and teens.
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Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre (Ebsco)
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Broad interest database that contains Australian and New Zealand magazines, newspapers and newswires, reference books and company information. Magazines in full-text include: Metro, North and South, NZ Business, Australian Women's Weekly.
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Auto repair manuals
Auto Repair Reference Center (EBSCO)
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Online automotive manuals for US model vehicles. Sections include auto IQ, care and repair tips, and troubleshooting.
Chilton Library.com (Gale)
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Chilton automotive manuals online, covering US model vehicles. Information includes bulletins/recalls, maintenance, and repair.
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Bateman New Zealand Encyclopedia (Thomson Gale)
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Covers a wide range of subjects of historical and contemporary significance to the country of New Zealand.
Biography Resource Center (Thomson Gale)
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An international database of biographical information about 220,000 people from throughout history and across all subject areas.
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Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management Library (EBSCO)
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Full text articles from Blackwell reference titles. Comprehensive coverage of management topics including human resources, information systems, cross-cultural management, organisational behaviour, and more.
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William Blake: America and Europe
View digitised versions of Blake's America and Europe
William Blake’s America; a prophecy, and Europe; a prophecy are among the many treasures held in Special collections. These two works come from the collection of Sir George Grey, and are bound together in one book.
Book Review Index (Thomson Gale)
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Looking for something new, or just keen to see what others thought? Use this database to find fulltext book reviews for over 600,000 titles.
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Breakout
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Awards, scholarships and grants available to New Zealand individuals for personal development, principally in academic, artistic, research and sporting fields.
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Business and Industry (Thomson Gale)
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A multi-industry database with a strong global focus on company, industry and product information.
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Business and Management Practices (Thomson Gale)
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This database focuses on the processes, methods and strategies of managing a business.
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Business Source Premier (Ebsco)
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Topics include accounting and tax, banking and finance, management and marketing. Also contains country industry profiles covering a range of industries - from auto dealers to telecommunications.
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Cemetery records -
Hillsborough - Onetangi, Waiheke Island - Otahuhu Public - Waikaraka
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This database covers all burials in these cemeteries up to the present day. Waikaraka burials date from 1890, Hillsborough from 1916 to 1974, Otahuhu Public Cemetery from 1894 to 1984 and Waiheke from 1943 to 1992.
Cemetery records -
St Stephens and Symonds Street
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Symonds Street Cemetery was the main Auckland cemetery until it closed in 1886, and should be searched in conjunction with St Stephens - burials for this cemetery date from 1849 to 1982.
Chilton Library.com (Gale)
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Chilton automotive manuals online, covering US model vehicles. Information includes bulletins/recalls, maintenance, and repair.
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CITY (Community Information To You (includes Clubs))
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A dynamic community database which aims to put you in touch with local, regional, and national groups and clubs that are located in the greater Auckland area. More...
Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry
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The online version of Granger’s Index to Poetry, the definitive source in English for locating a poem in anthologies on library shelves.
Read more in our eResource guide.
Contemporary Women's Issues (Thomson Gale)
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A full-text database that focuses on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives worldwide.
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Corporate Citizen
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A guide to corporate funding for community/voluntary organisations in New Zealand.
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Discovering Collection (Thomson Gale)
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Contains biographies, essays, timeline events and plot summaries. Covers literature, history, biography, science and social studies.
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Downloadable Media - eAudio books
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Download eAudio books to your computer, transfer them to a portable device, or burn them onto a CD. Includes fiction and non-fiction titles, as well as books for children and teens.
Read more in our eResource guide.
Dragonsource
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A Chinese eResource that provides access to popular magazines on a wide variety of topics. The magazine content is fulltext, and is available in both simplified and traditional Chinese characters.
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eBooks (netLibrary)
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Titles cover a range of topics including business and management, careers and computing.
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Ebsco
Academic Search Premier Search now
Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Search now
Business Source Premier Search now
Film and Television Literature Index Search now
Health Source - Consumer Search now
Health Source - Nursing and Academic Search now
Hospitality and Tourism Search now
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) Search now
MasterFILE Premier Search now
Natural and Alternative Treatments Search now
NoveList Search now
Regional Business News Search now
UK/EIRE Reference Centre Search now
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EIU reports
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The Economist Intelligence Unit provides full text information about a country's economy, business environment and political background; divided into two formats: country profiles and country reports.
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Electoral Rolls, 1881
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These cover the north Auckland, Auckland metropolitan and south Auckland area into the Waikato.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
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Britannica Junior Search now
Britannica Student Search now
Fully searchable and browsable collection from Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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Ephemera Index
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An index of printed ‘throwaway’ materials (e.g. cards, posters, tickets, programmes, flyers). A focus on social issues, entertainment, and cultural and sporting events in the Auckland region from the 1840s to the present day.
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Film & Television Literature Index (Ebsco)
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Index and abstracts of articles related to film and television.
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Fundview
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Information about funding for community groups.
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General OneFile - News and magazines (Thomson Gale)
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Access information on a wide variety of topics including current events, business, environmental issues, and more. Previously known as InfoTrac Onefile.
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Global Books in Print
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Information about current English language books, audios and videos.
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Good Reading magazine online
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The online edition is an exact digital copy of the print edition but has the added benefits of having all website and email addresses hyperlinked.
Read more in our eResource guide.
Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry
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The online version of Granger’s Index to Poetry, the definitive source in English for locating a poem in anthologies on library shelves.
Read more in our eResource guide.
Grove Art
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Full-text information and images about the visual arts - painting, scultpture, graphic arts, architecture, photography and more. Includes a variety of cultures, countries and time periods.
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Grove Music
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Includes all the content of the first 27 volumes of the printed edition. Features articles on musicians, composers, musicologists, instruments, places, genres, terms, acoustics, and more.
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Health and Wellness Resource Center (Thomson Gale)
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Covers a wide range of topics including: fitness, nutrition, public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse, prescription drugs, alternative medicine. Sources include reference books, magazines, journals, and video files.
Information contained in this database should not be used as a substitute for professional medical advice or treatment.
Read more in our eResource guide.
Health Source - Consumer (Ebsco)
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Search for full-text articles from a wide variety of consumer health magazines, health-related pamphlets, and reference books.
Information contained in this database should not be used as a substitute for professional medical advice or treatment.
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Health Source - Nursing and Academic (Ebsco)
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Find full-text academic articles from medical journals. Topics include public health, nursing, occupational therapy, and more.
Information contained in this database should not be used as a substitute for professional medical advice or treatment.
Heritage Images Online
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Consists of three significant collections: Winkelmann, Firth, and Schmidt. Included are images of Auckland, portraits from 1930s to 1970s and First World War soldier portraits.
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History Resource Center: World (Thomson Gale)
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Integrates secondary sources, primary sources and full-text articles from academic journals and periodicals from around the world. Supports undergraduate and high school research.
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Hospitality and Tourism (Ebsco)
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Full-text research articles and industry news. Topics include food and beverage management, hotel management and administration, market trends, and leisure and business travel.
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Index Auckland: local history, arts and music
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A rich resource of history, art, theatre, film and music references sourced from Auckland area newspapers and journal articles.
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Index New Zealand
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A searchable index to New Zealand magazines and newspapers.
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InfoTrac OneFile / General OneFile - News and magazines (Thomson Gale)
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Access information on a wide variety of topics including current events, business, environmental issues, and more.
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Iwidex
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An index to the sources of information on tribal history, tikanga-a-iwi, and whakapapa held in the heritage and research collections of Auckland City Libraries. More...
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Knowledge Basket Hansard
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A database of Hansard, the formal record of debates in Parliament. Contains the Hansard archive from 1987-2002, written questions from 1987-2002, Hansard from 2003 to current, and Hansard Advances.
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Knowledge Basket Legislation NZ
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See also
Regulations Browse and
Bills Browse
A searchable database of Acts, Bills, Supplementary Order Papers (SOPs), and Regulations.
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Knowledge Basket Maori Land Court Minute Books Index
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Provides access to information found in the minute books from 1865 to 1910.
Knowledge Basket Newztext
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Full-text of articles from New Zealand's key news and business publications. Now includes the real-time Radio New Zealand newswire, and New Zealand Herald classifieds.
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Knowledge Basket New Zealand Index
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A new combined database of Index Auckland, Index New Zealand, Newzindex, Newspaper Index and NZ Science. Search for abstracts from newspapers, business journals and science publications.
Kompass Online
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Information on 1.8 million business-to-business companies, brands, products and services in 75 countries around the globe, including 14,000 New Zealand companies.
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) (Ebsco)
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LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subjects include classification, cataloguing, bibliometrics, information management, and more.
Read more in our eResource guide.
Literature
Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry
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The online version of Granger’s Index to Poetry, the definitive source in English for locating a poem in anthologies on library shelves.
Read more in our eResource guide.
Literature Resource Center (Thomson Gale)
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Biographies, book reviews, bibliographies, and critical essays of more than 120,000 authors from every age.
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Local History, Arts and Music Index
see Index Auckland
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Manuscripts Online
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Consists of manuscripts and archives relating to New Zealand, particularly Auckland and Northland, from the early 19th century to the present.
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Maps Online
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A selection of heritage maps from our collection that includes the George Church collection as well as other significant maps from throughout New Zealand, from the 1830s to the 1920s.
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MasterFILE Premier (Ebsco)
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Contains general periodicals and reference books covering a broad range of disciplines including business, education, health, science, multicultural issues, and more.
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Medieval Manuscripts Online 
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At present this database contains one manuscript: the digitised content of the Rossdhu Book of Hours.
Military (ProQuest)
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Abstracts and full-text articles on a range of military and defence issues. Topics covered include Vietnam and Second World War history, air and space power, and modern military technology.
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Natural and Alternative Treatments (Ebsco)
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Contains information on natural health and treatments. Specific topics include herbs and supplements, functional foods, acupuncture and homeopathy.
Information contained in this database should not be used as a substitute for professional medical advice or treatment.
Read more in our eResource guide.
Naxos Music Library
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Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive music collection available online. It contains over 75,000 tracks that you can stream from your computer at home. (NB: due to a technical problem Naxos can not be accessed from within the library).
Naxos Music Library: Jazz
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Close to 20,000 tracks of jazz from over 1850 albums, and more than 500 artists.
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netLibrary (eBooks)
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Titles cover a range of topics including business and management, careers and computing.
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NoveList (Ebsco)
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NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles.
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NZX Deep Archive
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New Zealand company information.
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OCLC FirstSearch
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OCLC FirstSearch is a worldwide research database with library holding information and online access to full-text articles, eBooks, and journals.
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Opposing Viewpoints (Thomson Gale)
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Provides access to information about today's controversial topics. The database contains thousands of articles, statistics and essays.
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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An online version of the 60 volume printed set. Provides more than 50,000 biographies of British men and women. No living people are included.
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Oxford English Dictionary Online
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Gives the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. Provides access to the 20-volume second edition and the three Additions Series volumes, plus at least 1800 new and revised entries each quarter.
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Oxford Reference Online
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Contains a wealth of facts, figures, definitions, and translations. It includes more than 100 quick reference titles as well as over 50,000 in-depth, scholarly articles from titles in the Oxford Companions series, plus all 20,000 quotations from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
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Photographers' Database
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An index to photographers who have worked in New Zealand from the 1840s to the present day. Sources include advertisements, newspapers, electoral rolls, published articles, and trade directories.
PressDisplay
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A collection of international newspapers.
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Price It! Antiques & Collectibles (Gale)
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An electronic database antique/collectibles pricing tool, containing data from a variety of US sources, including online auctions (eBay), online antique dealers (GoAntiques and TIAS) and land-based auction houses.
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ProQuest
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ABI/INFORM- business, finance, economics: journals, company profiles
Academic Research Library - articles from a wide range of popular academic subjects
ANZ Newsstand- Australian and New Zealand newspapers and newswires
Arts Academic Research Library- photography, dance, theatre, film, music, art history, and architecture
Asian Business and Reference- business and financial news from Asia
Military- defence and military history, sociology, and technology
Science Journals- physics, engineering, telecommunications and robotics
Social Science Journals- sociology, economics, politics, anthropology, psychology
Wilson's General Science Abstracts- biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, genetics, nursing
See listings under individual database names
ProQuest Reference Asia
This resource is now called Asian Business and Reference.
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Radio New Zealand Newswire
Contains all news stories since 1 January 1999.
Now included in the Knowledge Basket Newztext database.
Regional Business News (Ebsco)
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Business news from different regions in the USA.
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Road Test Index
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Selective index of road tests in many of the car and motorbike magazines in the library's collection. Entries range in date from the early 1960s to 2006. More...
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Rock's Backpages
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An archive of reviews, interviews and features on artists from Aaliyah to ZZ Top, by the world’s best rock writers and from the most influential music publications.
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Science Journals (ProQuest)
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Find full-text articles from nearly 400 leading science and technology journals. Topics include physics, engineering, telecommunications, and robotics.
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Science Resource Center (Thomson Gale)
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Covers a wide range of topics from anatomy to zoology. Sources include reference books, magazines and academic journals, selected for a range of content levels from basic to advanced.
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Social Science Journals (ProQuest)
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A wealth of scholarly sources from the social sciences. Find full-text articles and abstracts from nearly 500 journals on sociology, economics, anthropology, political studies, and psychology.
The Source
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A guide by subject to children's fiction, poetry and short stories, with an emphasis on Australian books.
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SourceOECD
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SourceOECD is a single e-library offering online access to all OECD books, reports, annuals, working papers, loose-leaf binders, periodicals and databases.
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Standards New Zealand
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View New Zealand (NZS) standards and joint Australian / New Zealand (AS/NZS) standards online.
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St Stephen's Cemetery Records
see Cemetery records - Symonds St and St Stephens
Student Resource Center (Thomson Gale)
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Aimed at high school and university students, this database includes primary documents, background and topical essays, biographies, critical analyses and full-text magazine articles.
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Symonds Street Cemetery Records
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TableBase (Thomson Gale)
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Search by subject for statistical information in table form.
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Te Puna Search
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Catalogue of New Zealand and overseas resources including which New Zealand libraries hold copies.
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Thomson Gale
Biography Resource Center Search now
Book Review Index Search now
Business and Industry Search now
Business and Management Practices Search now
Contemporary Women's Issues Search now
Discovering Collection Search now
Health and Wellness Resource Center Search now
History Resource Center: World Search now
InfoTrac OneFile: News and magazines Search now
Literature Resource Center Search now
LitFinder Search now
Opposing Viewpoints Search now
Science Resource Center Search now
Student Resource Center Search now
TableBase Search now
Times Digital Archive Search now
Virtual Reference Library Search now
What Do I Read Next? Search now
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Times Digital Archive (Thomson Gale)
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Search the complete digital archive of The Times (London) from 1785 to 1985 to retrieve facsimile images of either of a specific article or a complete page.
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TLS (Time Literary Supplement) Centenary Archive (Gale)
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Access this premier contemporary literary review in a fully indexed and searchable image format. Coverage is from 1902 to 1990. Search by article or contributor - most of who are revealed for the first time.
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UK/EIRE Reference Centre (Ebsco)
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Like the Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre, but for the UK and Ireland. This database contains magazines and newspapers, reference books, encyclopedias and images.
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Virtual Reference Library (Thomson Gale)
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A searchable database of reference books. Topics include fashion and costume history, endangered species, and how everyday products are made.
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What do I read next? (Thomson Gale)
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Whether you're looking for another novel like your favourite, or trying to branch out into something new, What Do I Read Next? can suggest something for you.
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World Book online
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World Book Kids Search now
Articles from the 22-volume print set plus more - web links, links to articles in periodicals, pictures and maps, video clips, animations, sound.
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World Book Advanced Search now
Search for documents, letters and other primary source material, or download an e-book.
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