eLibrary
Electronic Purchasing in Collaboration (EPIC) is a shared initiative by New Zealand libraries to provide their users with access to a collection of electronic resources. The EPIC resources offer easy access to thousands of high quality electronic publications, including New Zealand and international full-text journals, newspapers and photographs.
ART AND MUSIC
Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online has more than 45,000 articles on painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts and more.
Oxford Music Online
Oxford Music Online offers the most extensive and easily searchable online music resource.
(To access from home, you will need to enter your library card number, starting with the letter S and followed by 8 numbers.)
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Books and Authors
Books & Authors offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. The ideal convergence of science and serendipity, this online resource leverages the internet's unique capability to create, build, communicate and sustain communities of readers. Backed by a team of genre experts, Books & Authors connects readers with books.
Literature Resource Centre
Literature Resource Center is a current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature database. Uniquely relevant to today's curriculum, Literature Resource Center's rich critical, biographical and contextual materials support interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skills. Researchers at all levels will find the information they need on authors and their works in all genres and disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
BUSINESS AND LAW
Business Reference Suite
Provides single interface access to: Business & Industry, Business & Management practices, and TableBase databases.
HEALTH
Health & Wellness Resource Centre
Health & Wellness Resource Centre has established itself as the "go-to" medical reference in libraries everywhere. Providing easy-to-find answers via an intuitive and customisable interface makes this an ideal resource for researchers of all ages and levels of study.
HISTORY
History Resource Centre
History Resource Center: World combines a comprehensive and unique global collection of resources with easy-to-use search functionality. This collection offers students and history enthusiasts seamless access to Gale's secondary sources, primary sources and full-text articles from academic journals and periodicals from around the world.
NEW ZEALAND
Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre
The Australia/NZ Reference Centre combines Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers & newswires, reference books, and company information to create the largest collection of regional full-text content available to schools, public libraries, and academic institutions.
New Zealand Index
This is a unique archive of New Zealand content containing over 1.9 million records. It is a composite of five separate indexes of New Zealand newspapers, magazines and journals.
REFERENCE
Biography Resource Center
Biography Resource Center is Gale's premier biographical online reference database, designed to meet the needs of public, academic, special and school libraries. Biography Resource Center contains more than 435,000 biographies on more than 340,000 people gathered from more than 1,000 volumes of more than 135 award-winning Gale reference sources as well as full-text articles from nearly 300 magazines specifically chosen for their value to biographical research.
Contemporary Women's Issues
Multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press - with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries.
Discovering Collection
The Discovering Collection provides quick access to accurate information via an intuitive interface that takes the guesswork out of research. Gale's Discovering Collection allows students to get the "whole picture" on any curriculum topic. Provide your students award-winning reference content from Gale and they will develop their critical-thinking skills by placing people, places, events and primary documents in context. Results can be sorted into two different content levels - basic and intermediate.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Designed for public libraries, that serve a community of different ages and different interests, this multimedia reference source meets the needs of all patrons. Britannica Online Library Edition delivers two products in one: separate home pages for adults and children allow libraries to tailor the product to their patrons' needs, making it easy-to-use and age-appropriate for everyone.
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is the premier full-text resource covering today's hottest social issues, from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center brings together all the information that's needed to fully understand an issue: pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, links to hand-selected web sites, and more! This collection is a key resource for students preparing for debates or speeches.
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary is widely acknowledged to be the most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of English in the world. It is also the definitive record of English language development, tracing the evolution of more than 600,000 words over the last 1,500 years through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of sources.
OED Online is a crossword solver's dream! Not only is it the biggest dictionary of English in the world, it is possible to search for words with wildcards (missing letters can be denoted with a ?), and to search for words on the basis of their definitions.
Student Resource Centre (College edition)
Student Resource Centre offers easy access to award-winning content covering the major subject areas, including history, literature, science, social studies and more. Student Resource Centre provides a premium selection of reference, thousands of full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary documents, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts. Results can be sorted into three different content levels - basic, intermediate and advanced, helping to make this resource user friendly for all customers.
Virtual Reference Suite (GVRL)
GVRL contains 130 fulltext reference titles that are currently available in the following resources:
- Biography Resource Center
- Health & Wellness Resource Center
- History Resource Center : World
- Literature Resource Center
- Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
- Student Resource Center
Australia New Zealand Reference Centre
The Australia/NZ Reference Centre includes Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers & newswires, reference books, and company information.
Masterfile Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975.
InfoTrac OneFile
Provides access to periodical and news information on a diverse set of topics, including humanities, education, business, science, current events, art, politics, economics, social science, law, health care, computers, technology, environmental issues, and general interest topics.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
ProQuest Science Journals
ProQuest Science Journals™ offer online access to leading popular science journals. Through ProQuest Science Journals™, New Zealanders will have access to "must read" science titles covering a very wide range of interests. The database fulfils the basic scientific reference needs of many different types and sizes of academic, special, school and public libraries.
You will have instant access to hundreds of journals, enabling New Zealanders to search key topics such as the New Zealand Health Strategy, developments in the studies of obesity in children and environmental issues.