49 Digital Resources

Extensive coverage of the sciences, technology, medicine, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.

Discover a comprehensive selection of authoritative periodicals and scholarly journals. Disciplines include: Biology, Chemistry, Criminal Justice, Economics, Environmental Science, History, Marketing, Political Science and Psychology.

A resource for family history researchers.

Enter names and places where your ancestors might have lived. View images of documents such as census records.

Ancestry Library Edition is available from home until March 31 2021.

Art market information for Australian and New Zealand forthcoming auctions, past auction results from 1969 to the present, market statistics, news and opinion.

The Australian Art Sales Digest is a database of over 650,000 works of art by more than 12,000 artists who are listed as having either lived or worked in Australia or New Zealand and an additional 36,000 other artists, that have had art offered for sale by auction in Australia and New Zealand over the last 30 years. The AASD is an indispensable tool for valuers, art consultants, auctioneers and collectors.

Please note that Lot Alerts are only available for individual subscribers not library users.

A great starting point for anybody researching notable figures in history.

Biography In Context offers authoritative reference content alongside magazine and journal articles, primary sources, videos, audio podcasts, and images. Covering a vast array of people from historically significant figures to present-day newsmakers, it’s continuously updated to ensure students have access to the latest information.

The online home for deep analysis of the big issues facing New Zealand today: housing, inequality, climate change, child poverty, the environment, migration, financial crisis, and more.

One authoritative resource of life on these islands, from earliest beginnings to present day. Comprising 90+ titles from over 30 years of history and biography publishing from Bridget Williams Books.

This popular encyclopedia is available for library customers to use online.

Britannica provides timely, relevant and trustworthy information. Choose your level and get started.

Essential business information from around the world. Includes detailed company and industry profiles, market share and financial reports.

The world’s leading business journals, international case studies and company overviews enable users to gain a broad and deep understanding of international business.

Palmerston North City Council archives hold records on the development of the city from 1878. You can search a list of what we hold on this database.

Archives Central is a fully-searchable catalogue of Council Archives, including a growing collection of digitised archives, sourced from participating New Zealand local authorities.
The purpose of Archives Central is to make Council archives more accessible for the community and easier to use.
Click on the logos above to view your chosen council’s homepage and search their listings; or use the search box at the top right of this page to search over the whole site.

The community archives hold records of local families, businesses and organisations. You can search a list of what we hold on this database.

This database lists the Community Archives and Research Files that are held in the Ian Matheson City Archives. The Community Archives are records of local organisations, businesses, individuals and their families, and are generally primary documents. Research files are local history topic folders and mainly contain secondary sources of information.

Provides access to leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries.

This database includes more than 600 journals and periodicals, providing information on computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications, and the application of technology.

Coverage of issues that influence women's lives across the globe.

Users will find timely and historically relevant content on topics including civil rights, health, education, professional development, and entrepreneurship.

Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.

Culinary Arts offers a variety of information from major cooking and nutrition magazines as well as book reference content.

Gale OneFile: Entrepreneurship provides insights, tips, strategies, and success stories for business schools and entrepreneurs.

Focuses on the physical, social and economic aspects of environmental issues.

Users can search the information to learn about diverse subjects such as climate change, food security, land and water use, populations and tourism.

Answers inquiries about environmental concerns with coverage of more than 5.4 million articles from more than 300 journals and books.​​

Environmental Studies and Policy provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and other reference sources covering environmental issues and policies. The database includes diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policymakers, and corporate interests.

A family history and genealogy website containing over 550 million family history records.

A constantly updated family history and genealogy website containing over 550 million family history records. Available on the Central Library's second floor.

This link will only work if you use a library computer.

This collection provides support for research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and film-making.

Fine Arts places 10.4 million articles at the fingertips of students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. More than 250 journals are covered.

Learn how to plan, fund, start or manage your small business.

Coverage includes all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more. It combines authoritative periodical and reference content to support prospective and current entrepreneurs as well as business students. Resources include; sample business plans, how to guides, articles, and websites.

A step-by-step online planning tool for starting, managing and optimizing a business or nonprofit.

This database helps patrons interested in planning and optimizing their businesses or nonprofits. Built for aspiring entrepreneurs and those with existing small businesses.

Create an account to access this resource.

A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.​​

Searches all of Gale's literary research databases.

Gale Literature brings together all Gale literary content in a single interface. You’ll find intuitive search features and user-friendly tools that allow you to access full-text literary works, journal articles, literature criticism and analysis, reviews, author biographies and more.

LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history.

Includes more than 130,000 full-text poems and 650,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. Biographies, work summaries, images, photographs, and a glossary are also included.

Information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more.

Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 150,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

This collection provides information for gardening enthusiasts and professionals.

This database offers gardening hobbyists, biotechnologists, farmers and landscape architects access to more than 3.6 million articles from more than 100 journals, as well as more than 20 reference titles.

General OneFile is a comprehensive general-interest resource providing periodical and news information perfect for researchers at all levels.

This database allows users to easily view content of interest on the most popular and most-searched topics within several distinct categories, including news, current events, health, and computers and technology.

givMe offers access to more than 4000 scholarships and awards.

To assist with finding funding for school or tertiary study, travel grants, sports and arts schemes, personal and professional development.

You will need to create an account to use this resource.

Integrates news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more in a single search.

Global Issues offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, relevant sources for analysis of these issues. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal.

Access over 600 online manuals, covering car and motorcycle maintenance and repairs.

Haynes Manuals AllAccess is a library of manuals covering a range of makes and models, with up-to-date content including common repairs, routine maintenance and servicing procedures.

Whether you’re researching a disease or health issue, a drug or herb, or you just need some basic health information this is the place to start.

Gale Health and Wellness puts up-to-date information on health and wellness topics at your fingertips. Inside you’ll have access to full text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and much more. Search for a full range of health related issues, from current disease and disorder information, to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices. Topics of Interest include COVID-19.

This database presents material in a way most useful for students. Students will find a vast array of resources for papers, projects and presentations. Covers topics in the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Covers such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection.

This collection has more than 200 home improvement-focused titles for both hobbyists and professional carpenters . Many subject areas are covered.

A great resource for curious travelers and serious researchers.

This database allows for focused study of all areas of the hospitality industry, including the cultural aspects of travel and leisure activities, the economic impact of tourism and more. It provides unparalleled coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field.

The National Library of New Zealand's searchable database that contains abstracts and descriptions of articles from over 1000 New Zealand periodicals and newspapers.

The National Library of New Zealand's searchable database that contains abstracts and descriptions of articles from about 1000 New Zealand periodicals and newspapers, including some from earlier in the 20th century to the current day.

On Manawatū Heritage you can search, share and download thousands of photographs, archives and other items about the Manawatū.

Manawatū Heritage is a living heritage tool which encourages active participation from the community by accepting digital uploads and written articles from the public. By creating a log-in, you can upload your own stories and photographs to the repository as well as comment on individual items, share your findings via email and social media, and download low or high resolution copies of out of copyright materials.

Learn about Palmerston North through themed heritage tours. This app allows the whole family to explore our history by foot, bicycle or car.

Manawatū Heritage Tours App brings together community-initiated research, images and content from the award-winning Manawatū Heritage digital repository. Mobile technology helps people to explore Palmerston North's rich and often unknown history. Current tours include Women's Places, Military Tour (Walking), and Military Tour (Driving).

Information from magazines, reference books, databases and newspapers.

An online reference system providing full text magazines covering an extensive range of subject areas including business, health, education, fitness, sports and leisure, personal finance, general science, multicultural issues, DIY and fashion.

Created specifically for intermediate age students, this database combines the best of Gale's reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more. Categories cover a range of the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, world history, and literature.

Provides access to a wide range of newspapers from around the world.

This full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author and other fields. Major US regional, national and local newspapers are included, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts. Updated daily.

NoveList Plus can help you find your next great read in your favourite genre. It includes adult, young adult, children's, easy fiction, nonfiction and audiobooks.

NoveList Plus is a comprehensive readers' advisory solution for fiction lovers. With an intuitive interface and extensive content, NoveList Plus answers the question: What should I read next?

Need to look at one or both sides of a controversial social issue? This clarifies the facts of each topic as well as the arguments for and against.

Opposing Viewpoints is a premier online resource covering today’s hottest social issues. This cross-curricular research tool supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Its informed, differing views present each side of an issue and help students develop information literacy, critical thinking skills, and the confidence to draw their own valid conclusions.

The Palmerston North City Library app helps users explore the library and manage their accounts.

Search the catalogue for items to borrow or reserve. View and renew items you have checked out. Access e-books and other online resources. Read the latest library news and see upcoming events. Connect with us on social media.

This app replaces the Bookmyne app.

An online collection of digitally scanned New Zealand material from the 19th and 20th centuries.​

Papers Past provides access to digitised newspapers, periodicals, letters, diaries and parliamentary papers from all regions covering the years 1839 to 1945. Includes the Manawatu Standard from 1883 to 1945.

Covers current events, sports, science and health issues.

This database provides a strong focus on current events, sports, science and health. Chosen by public library search results, titles are compiled by what our users are searching for most.

Save time and search across more than one Gale eResource at once.

This database provides instant access to 7000 plus newspapers and magazines, from 120 countries in 60 plus languages.

Stuff Ltd has restricted access to their magazine and newspaper titles through PressReader.

Their titles which include the Dominion Post and the Manawatu Standard are no longer available to be read from home via the PressReader app or website. Stuff titles are only accessible through the PressReader website at one of our Libraries.

Magazines and newspapers not published by Stuff are unaffected.

An engaging online resource that provides information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics.

Gale's authoritative reference content is merged with full-text magazine, academic journal, and news articles; experiments, images, videos, audio files, and links to vetted websites organised into a user-friendly portal experience.

A multi-faceted reference tool for children through to tertiary level research

World Book Online is a suite of online research tools that includes encyclopedia articles, primary source collections, educator tools, student activities, pictures, audio, and video, complemented by current periodicals and related websites.

A resource that helps students understand the world around them, from antiquity to the present.

World History provides an overview of world history covering the most-studied events, periods, cultures, civilizations, religions, conflicts, wars, ideologies, cultural movements, and people.