eResources by subject

Books and Authors

Library eResources:

• Books & Authors
• Discovering Collection
• Literature Resource Center    
• NoveList Readers Advisor
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Student Resource Center

Free websites:

• Bartleby.com - a great free collection of fiction, non-fiction and reference books online.
• Fantastic Fiction - excellent site for finding series.
• Find - search across multiple National Library of New Zealand services.
• The Internet Public Library - their links to sites that provide full-text books online (fiction and non-fiction).
• The New Zealand electronic text centre - a free online archive of selected New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials, which offers an ever expanding, fully searchable set of images and full-text books, manuscripts and journals.
• New Zealand Libraries' Catalogue - details of over 10 million published items, and links to NZ libraries that have copies.
• Publications New Zealand - a record of items (books, films, maps, music, etc) published in NZ, or overseas if they are related to NZ. 
• The  Rare Book Room - examine and read some of the great books of the world.
• Stop you're killing me - if you love mystery books this is an excellent site for finding series.
• What's Next? - search for novels in series.
• More websites ...

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Biographies 

Library eResources: 

• Australia & New Zealand Newsstand
• Biography Resource Center
• Britannica Online
• Discovering Collection
• History Resource Center
• Literature Resource Center
• MasterFILE Premier
• Oxford Art Online
• Oxford Music Online
• Student Resource Center - College Edition

• Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
• Famous New Zealanders

Magazines

Library eResources: 

• Australia/New Zealand Reference Center 
• The Complete New Yorker: 1925-2005  
• General OneFile  -
• Library PressDisplay - New!
• MasterFILE Premier 
• The New Internationalist Archive 1981-2005
• Popular Magazines Collection 
• Science Journals
• eNewspapers and eMagazines

• Arts and Letters Daily
• Consumer Online - from Consumers Institute of NZ.
• Directory of Open Access Journals - a directory of free, full-text scholarly journals on the web
• Education Gazette online
• Findarticles - full text of academic and general interest journals and magazines, with coverage back to 1998.
• Index New Zealand
• MagPortal - full text of online journals, including some Web-exclusive content.
• National Geographic
• NetGuide
• New Scientist
• PC World magazine
• Websites of New Zealand magazines - these sites provide at least contents page information. Some also provide full text.  

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Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias

Library eResources:

• Bateman New Zealand Encyclopedia
• Britannica Online
• Encarta Encyclopedia
• Oxford Art Online 
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Oxford Music Online  
• Tangata Whenua O Aotearoa - an encyclopedia of Maori Culture

• Bartleby.com - a great free collection of fiction, non-fiction and reference books online.
• Ngata Dictionary - English to Maori and Maori to English dictionary.
• Te Ara : the Encyclopedia of New Zealand
• Wikipedia  

Library Catalogue: search results

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Music and Arts 

Library eResources:

• Art of the Pacific Islands
• Biography Resource Center 
• Britannica Online  
• Culinary Arts Collection
• Discovering Collection  
• Fine Arts and Music Collection
• Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection 
• Home Improvement Collection
• Oxford Art Online 
• Oxford Music Online 
• Student Resource Center 
• Twentieth centry art

And these eResources have a number of full text magazines covering art, architecture, design, dance, music, film, and theatre:

• Australia/New Zealand Reference Center 
• MasterFILE Premier

• All Music Guide
• ArtFind - is a comprehensive portal of New Zealand art.
• Cultural Contacts - is a database of New Zealand arts and cultural organisations.
• Discover Te Kohinga Taonga - access over 2,500 multimedia items on NZ musicians, artists, photographers, designers and architects both historic and contemporary, Mâori and Pâkehâ.
• Matapihi - experience a selection of pictures, sounds and objects from New Zealand (from archives, galleries, libraries and museums)
• Movie links on our website
• Zeroland - art and culture web directory.

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Health

Library eResources:

• Anatomica
• Fetal and infant deaths 2002 (NZ Health statistics)
• Health and Wellness Resource Center
• Contemporary Women's Issues
• Science Journals
• Selected privately funded morbidity data 2002 (NZ Health statistics)

• Best treatments - this site can tell you which treatments really work and which don't work, based on the best and most up-to-date medical research.
• The Cochrane Library - an internationally renowned collection of databases of health information, designed to help health care professionals make treatment decisions and inform patients about the care they receive.
• everybody.co.nz - info about health conditions and groups.
• Medline Plus - search health and medical topics including drug information and current news articles.
• Medsafe - consumer information about medicine.

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Science and Technology 

Library eResources: 

• Computer Database
• Discovering Collection
• Environmental Studies and Policy Collection
• Health and Wellness Resource Center
• History Resource Center
• MasterFILE Premier
• Science Journals  

Students

Library eResources: 

• Biography Resource Center
• Britannica Online
• Contemporary Women's Issues
• CultureGrams
• Discovering Collection
• Health and Wellness Resource Center
• History Resource Center
• Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection
• Literature Resource Center
• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Student Resource Center  

Consolidated Search Tools

• What is consolidated searching?
• Gale PowerSearch
• Gale Virtual Reference Library  

Newspaper and news services 

Library eResources:

• Australia & New Zealand Newsstand 
• Australia/New Zealand Reference Center 
• General OneFile   
• Library PressDisplay - New!
• MasterFILE Premier
• The Times Digital Archive (London) 1785-1985
• Library eNewspapers and eMagazines

Free websites:

• Community languages news sites - read news in languages other than English.
• Manawatu Evening Standard Newspaper Index - created by the Palmerston North City Library.
• News and newspapers online finder
• Newspapers of the world
• Online newspapers 
• Papers Past - historic New Zealand newspapers and periodicals - digital images of over one million pages from selected 19th century publications.
• Stuff.co.nz
• More websites ...

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Current Affairs 

Library eResources:

• Australia & New Zealand Newsstand
• Australia/New Zealand Reference Center 
• Contemporary Women's Issues
• General OneFile  
• Library PressDisplay - New!
• MasterFILE Premier
• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
• Science Journals

Free websites:

• Community languages news sites - read news in languages other than English.
• Stuff.co.nz

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Countries and Cultures

Library eResources:

• See New Zealand eResources
• 3D world atlas  
• Alphabet Learning Program
• Britannica Online
• Contemporary Women's Issues
• CultureGrams
• Discovering Collection
• History Resource Center
• IELTS Tutor
• Library PressDisplay - New!
• MasterFILE Premier
• The New Internationalist Archive 1981-2005  
• The New Internationalist World guide
• Pictures that talk English
• Student Resource Center

• Map Machine - National Geographic - learn and have fun with this online atlas. Print out maps for your school projects. Find flags for each country.
• NationMaster - facts, figures and statistics from around the world. Country comparisons.
• Say Hello to the World
• Traveller's guide
• The World Factbook - select a country to find more information.

New Zealand

Library eResources:

• 1881 NZ electoral roll
• 1893 NZ electoral roll
• 240 days : New Zealand at Gallipoli 
• Australia & New Zealand Newsstand 
• Australia/New Zealand Reference Center 
• Bateman New Zealand Encyclopedia
• Biography Resource Center
• Births, deaths and marriages 1845-1866 from 'The New Zealander'
• CultureGrams
• Early Auckland births and deaths
• Early Wellington settlers
• Fetal and infant deaths 2002 (NZ Health statistics)
• History Resource Center
• Library PressDisplay - New!
• Maori land court minute books index
• MasterFILE Premier 
New Zealand Atlas
• New Zealand Burial locator
• New Zealand Encyclopedia
• NZ Gazette Archive 1841-2009 - New!
• New Zealand Gazette 1876
New Zealand Marriages 1836-1956
New Zealand Post Office directory 1900
New Zealand Roadcode Testdrive
• New Zealand World War I service personnel & reserves index
• Pictures that talk Maori
• Puzzles that talk Maori
• Simple Maori sentences
• Tangata Whenua O Aotearoa - an encyclopedia of Maori Culture
• Te Mana Taiohi : an interactive careers and music tool
• Waikato births, deaths & marriages 1864-1900
• The working tariff document of New Zealand

• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
• Digital NZ
• Famous New Zealanders
• Find - search across multiple National Library of New Zealand services.
• Index New Zealand
• Manuscripts & Pictorial - collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
• Matapihi - experience a selection of pictures, sounds and objects from New Zealand (from archives, galleries, libraries and museums).
• The New Zealand electronic text centre - a free online archive of selected New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials, which offers an ever expanding, fully searchable set of images and full-text books, manuscripts and journals.
• Papers Past - historic New Zealand newspapers and periodicals - digital images of over one million pages from selected 19th century publications.
• Te Ara : the Encyclopedia of New Zealand
• Varcoes New Zealand Marriages index

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History and Genealogy 

Library eResources:

• See New Zealand eResources
• 1881 British census 
• Ancestry Library Edition
• Australia & New Zealand Newsstand 
• Bateman New Zealand Encyclopedia
• Biography Resource Center
• Britannica Online  
• CultureGrams
• Discovering Collection
Eyewitness History of the World
• Find My Past
• History Resource Center 
• Oxford Art Online 
• Oxford English Dictionary
• The Pacific Islands : an Encyclopedia
• Student Resource Center
• The Times Digital Archive (London) 1785-1985

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• Digital NZ
• Find - search across multiple National Library of New Zealand services.
• Index New Zealand
• Manuscripts & Pictorial - collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library.  

Business and Law

Library eResources: 

• Australia & New Zealand Newsstand 
• Business & Industry
• Business & Management Practices
• CD-Drives : road rules practice 
• General OneFile  
• Library PressDisplay - New!
• MasterFILE Premier
• New Zealand Business Who's Who
• NZ Gazette Archive 1841-2009 - New!
• NZ Roadcode Testdrive
• TableBase
• The working tariff document of New Zealand

• Index New Zealand
• Jobhunting guide
• New Zealand road code factsheets index
• New Zealand Universal Business Directories
• The official New Zealand road code online
• Online banking and business guide
• Public Access to NZ Legislation

Community Funding

Library eResources: 

• BreakOut - funding for individuals.
• FundView - funding for community groups.

• Eastern & Central Community Trust - funding for your community.
• Environmental funding - list of environmental and conservation project funding.
• Funding Information Service - useful guides on how to run meetings, get sponsorship, plan projects, etc.
• Palmerston North Community Arts Council - find out about funding opportunities for local and regional arts projects and organisations.