17 Digital Resources

A selection of full-text newspapers and newswires from Australia and New Zealand covering regional and international topics.

ProQuest Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) Newsstand offers access to leading Australian and New Zealand newspapers. Combining content from Fairfax Australia and Fairfax New Zealand, News Limited, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and APP newswires, ANZ Newsstand provides the very latest local, regional and national news

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

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.

The online home for Bridget Williams Books reference publishing and accounts of Deaf experience, freshly rendered using rich multimedia and visuals.

The online home for the acclaimed series of “short books” on big subjects from great New Zealand writers.

An authoritative home for treaty scholarship online, access to full content text books about the Treaty.

This collection is a landmark digital resource from Bridget Williams Books (BWB). The collection is primarily designed to provide a new and authoritative home for Treaty scholarship online, optimised for mobile and tablet devices.

Great writing about women’s lives, issues and histories.

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

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'.

Community groups can find funding information from trusts, local government, gaming trusts, government and other sources. You will need to create an account the first time you 'view this resource'

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.

Manawatū Heritage is an online repository where you can search, share and download thousands of photographs and other items about the Manawatū region.

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.

An interactive magazine for New Zealand, celebrating our people, places, wildlife and environment.

An interactive magazine for New Zealand, celebrating our people, places, wildlife and environment.

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.

This database lists the Community Archives and Research Files that are available for research purposes 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 an amalgamation of resources around frequently requested topics. They may contain references to primary information, as well as notes, newspaper articles and secondary sources of information. 

This database provides instant access to 5000 plus newspapers and magazines, from 100 countries in 60 languages on your PC, laptop, tablet or smartphone.

This database provides instant access to 5000 plus newspapers and magazines, from 100 countries in 60 languages on your PC, laptop, tablet or smartphone. As well as current issues, there is an archive dating back 90 days. New features offered with Press Reader are interactive tables of content, foreign language translation (in 17 different languages) social sharing and text-to-voice conversion.