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.

Articles on women’s issues including social, environmental, educational, and family concerns with an international focus.

Previously the Small Business Resource Center.

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.

To assist with finding funding for school, polytechnic or travel grants, sports and arts schemes, personal grants and personal development funds. You will need to create an account the first time you 'view this resource'.

An educational site offering thousands of video courses in computer technology, software, creativity and business skills.

Lynda.com is a leading online platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. Members have access to a video library of engaging, top-quality courses taught by recognized industry experts. Now part of Linkedin, Lynda.com serves more than 10,000 organizations, with tutorials in five languages.

A library card is necessary to create an account to track your progress.

*Our upgrade to LinkedIn Learning has been postponed until further notice.

Subscriber edition.

Immediate and unrestricted access to the entire print edition. Updated daily.

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

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

Previously Small Business Builder.

This database helps patrons interested in planning and optimizing their businesses or nonprofits. Built for aspiring entrepreneurs and those with existing small businesses, it provides a step-by-step online planning tool for starting, managing and optimizing a business or nonprofit.

Create an account to access this resource.