8 Digital Resources

Find articles from newspapers, magazines, and reference books covering current events, business, politics, sports and many other subjects.

Australia/NZ Reference Centre Plus combines Australasian magazines, newspapers, and reference books to create the largest collection of regional full text content available to libraries in Oceania. This database includes leading Australian, New Zealand and international magazines and newspapers in full text; full text reference books; more than 90,000 full text biographies and an Image Collection of more than one million photos, maps and flags. Titles include the Dominion Post and the Manawatu Standard.

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.

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.

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

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. The program’s intuitive dashboard walks users through five areas of exploration in order to develop a business plan focused on long-term success.

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givME offers access to scholarships and awards for individuals.

To assist with finding funding for school or tertiary study, arts, travel, cultural and sporting activities, personal or professional development.

To create a givMe account, enter your name, email, a password and your Palmerston North City Library card number.

Login to your existing givMe account, with your email and password.

LinkedIn Learning for Library offers over 16,000 courses in 7 languages (English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Mandarin, and Portuguese).

LinkedIn Learning for Library (previously Lynda.com) is a leading online platform that helps users learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. Library members have free access to a video library of engaging, top-quality courses taught by recognized industry experts.

A LinkedIn profile is not required to access LinkedIn Learning for Library, only a library card and PIN.

Your learning history is tied to your library card.

If you had a Lynda.com account, your learning history will be in your new LinkedIn Learning for Library account under your existing library card and PIN.

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