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The Library subscribes to over 200 databases, containing journal articles, statistics, scientific and legal data and much more. Select the database you need from the alphabetical lists on these pages, or choose your topic under Databases by Subject.
Databases by subject:
NAMTA Montessori Bibliography (password required, click here)
Published by: North American Montessori Teachers’ Association
Description: NAMTA's online Bibliography is a searchable online version of the 800-page NAMTA Montessori Bibliography and Research Guide and includes more than 14,000 citations. The NAMTA Montessori Bibliography Online represents an index to over 50 Montessori periodicalssome ongoing, some long out of print. It also incorporates Montessori citations from 23 library indexes, covering journals, popular magazines, newspapers, books, and dissertations. It is an invaluable tool for parent education ideas, research projects, school newsletters, teacher development, study of Montessori theory, methods, and history.
Coverage: 1909+, updated quarterly
Access: via password
Content: index only
Description: NAMTA's online Bibliography is a searchable online version of the 800-page NAMTA Montessori Bibliography and Research Guide and includes more than 14,000 citations. The NAMTA Montessori Bibliography Online represents an index to over 50 Montessori periodicalssome ongoing, some long out of print. It also incorporates Montessori citations from 23 library indexes, covering journals, popular magazines, newspapers, books, and dissertations. It is an invaluable tool for parent education ideas, research projects, school newsletters, teacher development, study of Montessori theory, methods, and history.
Coverage: 1909+, updated quarterly
Access: via password
Content: index only
New Zealand Acts As Enacted 1841-2007
Published by: Parliamentary Counsel Office
Description: This is a database of New Zealand Acts from 1841 to 2007 as originally enacted. The Acts, which are in PDF format, do not include any later amendments or show whether they have been repealed. For current legislation and enacted legislation and repealed legislation since 2007, visit the New Zealand Legislation website.
Coverage: 1841 - 2007
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: Full text
Description: This is a database of New Zealand Acts from 1841 to 2007 as originally enacted. The Acts, which are in PDF format, do not include any later amendments or show whether they have been repealed. For current legislation and enacted legislation and repealed legislation since 2007, visit the New Zealand Legislation website.
Coverage: 1841 - 2007
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: Full text
New Zealand Business Who's Who (password required, click here)
Published by: New Zealand Financial Press Ltd
Description: New Zealand's largest, most respected business-to-business directory online. Over 100,000 key business contacts from 22,000 businesses are included. Full contact details, including email addresses, websites and company executives are at your fingertips.
Access: via password
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text
Description: New Zealand's largest, most respected business-to-business directory online. Over 100,000 key business contacts from 22,000 businesses are included. Full contact details, including email addresses, websites and company executives are at your fingertips.
Access: via password
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text
New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (NZEPC)
Published by: University of Auckland
Description: A project based at the University of Auckland to set up an electronic gateway to poetry resources in Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Pacific region. It aims to coordinate existing archival and publishing information, and to present some full-text electronic publication of poetry and commentary in consultation with authors and their publishers. NZEPC also promotes live poetry events as and when resources permit and is committed to extending and documenting locations for poetry in the digital environment and its real-world counterpart.
Coverage: Varies by types
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: Varies by titles
Description: A project based at the University of Auckland to set up an electronic gateway to poetry resources in Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Pacific region. It aims to coordinate existing archival and publishing information, and to present some full-text electronic publication of poetry and commentary in consultation with authors and their publishers. NZEPC also promotes live poetry events as and when resources permit and is committed to extending and documenting locations for poetry in the digital environment and its real-world counterpart.
Coverage: Varies by types
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: Varies by titles
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
Published by: Victoria University of Wellington
Description: A free online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials offering an ever expanding set of images and full-text books, manuscripts and journals. All resources are fully searchableA free online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials offering an ever expanding set of images and full-text books, manuscripts and journals. All resources are fully searchable.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: fulltext
Description: A free online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials offering an ever expanding set of images and full-text books, manuscripts and journals. All resources are fully searchableA free online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials offering an ever expanding set of images and full-text books, manuscripts and journals. All resources are fully searchable.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: fulltext
New Zealand Film Archive
Published by: New Zealand Film Archive
Description: Catalogue of the predominantly New Zealand film and video collections dating from 1895 to the present day. In these collections are feature films, documentaries, short films, home movies, newsreels, television programmes and film and television advertisements. A large documentation collection is also held, including publicity materials, stills, posters, production records and equipment.
Coverage: Varies by titles
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: Varies by types
Description: Catalogue of the predominantly New Zealand film and video collections dating from 1895 to the present day. In these collections are feature films, documentaries, short films, home movies, newsreels, television programmes and film and television advertisements. A large documentation collection is also held, including publicity materials, stills, posters, production records and equipment.
Coverage: Varies by titles
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: Varies by types
New Zealand Fisheries Management Research Database
Published by: University of Auckland
Description: Primarily New Zealand material covering social, economic, environmental, recreational and customary rights information. The inclusion of relevant international sources enhances the depth of content in the resource to assist in promoting fisheries management and policy development. Sources listed include a range of different formats such as websites, books, reports, working papers, theses, newspaper and journal articles.
Coverage: Varies by subject
Concurrent users: Unlimited
Content: Full text
Description: Primarily New Zealand material covering social, economic, environmental, recreational and customary rights information. The inclusion of relevant international sources enhances the depth of content in the resource to assist in promoting fisheries management and policy development. Sources listed include a range of different formats such as websites, books, reports, working papers, theses, newspaper and journal articles.
Coverage: Varies by subject
Concurrent users: Unlimited
Content: Full text
New Zealand Government Directory
Published by: Network Communication Group
Description: Biographies and contact details for all Ministers and MPs, information on Cabinet, Select Committees and the workings of Parliament and details of all major Government ministries, departments, statutory bodies and agencies, the judiciary, diplomatic representation and local government.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text
Description: Biographies and contact details for all Ministers and MPs, information on Cabinet, Select Committees and the workings of Parliament and details of all major Government ministries, departments, statutory bodies and agencies, the judiciary, diplomatic representation and local government.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text
New Zealand Health Information Service (NZHIS)
Published by: NZ Health Information Service
Description: The New Zealand Health Information Service (NZHIS) is a group within the New Zealand Ministry of Health responsible for the collection and dissemination of health-related data. This website contains a wide range of health statistics including cancer, drug statistics, hospital events, maternal and newborn, mental health, mortality and suicide statistics.
Coverage: varies by titles
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: Significant full text
Description: The New Zealand Health Information Service (NZHIS) is a group within the New Zealand Ministry of Health responsible for the collection and dissemination of health-related data. This website contains a wide range of health statistics including cancer, drug statistics, hospital events, maternal and newborn, mental health, mortality and suicide statistics.
Coverage: varies by titles
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: Significant full text
New Zealand Index
Published by: The Knowledge Basket
Description: The New Zealand Index is made up of eight indexes of New Zealand newspapers, magazines and journals. They can be searched together or separately.
Newzindex: index and abstracts of articles from New Zealand newspapers, business and industry magazines from 1985 to present.
Newspaper Index: index and abstracts of New Zealand newspaper articles relating to political issues and politicians, from 1993 to January 2003.
Auckland Index: history, art, theatre, film and music references sourced from Auckland area regional newspapers and journal articles.
NZ Science: index of New Zealand science. Coverage from 1840 onwards.
Index New Zealand (INNZ): index of nearly 300 journals and newspapers and strong in social sciences, arts, humanities and general interest material. Includes some South Pacific journals. Coverage from 1987 onwards.
INZART: Index of articles on New Zealand art from serials and newspapers. Coverage ranges from the early 1960s to the present.
NZ Woman's Weekly Index: 1932-1951.
NZ Herald Family +Notices: births and deaths since 2003.
Coverage: varies by publication, updated daily
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: some full text
Description: The New Zealand Index is made up of eight indexes of New Zealand newspapers, magazines and journals. They can be searched together or separately.
Newzindex: index and abstracts of articles from New Zealand newspapers, business and industry magazines from 1985 to present.
Newspaper Index: index and abstracts of New Zealand newspaper articles relating to political issues and politicians, from 1993 to January 2003.
Auckland Index: history, art, theatre, film and music references sourced from Auckland area regional newspapers and journal articles.
NZ Science: index of New Zealand science. Coverage from 1840 onwards.
Index New Zealand (INNZ): index of nearly 300 journals and newspapers and strong in social sciences, arts, humanities and general interest material. Includes some South Pacific journals. Coverage from 1987 onwards.
INZART: Index of articles on New Zealand art from serials and newspapers. Coverage ranges from the early 1960s to the present.
NZ Woman's Weekly Index: 1932-1951.
NZ Herald Family +Notices: births and deaths since 2003.
Coverage: varies by publication, updated daily
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: some full text
New Zealand Law Journal Archive - available from AUT computers, on campus only, via the Library Applications Menu
Published by: LexisNexis
Description: This Archive contains the articles of all issues of The New Zealand Law Journal dating from 1925 to 2001.
Access: Available from AUT computers, on campus only, via the Library Applications Menu
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text
Click here to see the User Guide
Description: This Archive contains the articles of all issues of The New Zealand Law Journal dating from 1925 to 2001.
Access: Available from AUT computers, on campus only, via the Library Applications Menu
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text
Click here to see the User Guide
New Zealand Legislation
Published by: NZ Parliamentary Counsel Office
Description: A free database of up-to-date New Zealand Acts, Statutory Regulations and Bills. The database is provided by the New Zealand Parliamentary Counsel Office/Te Tari Tohutohu Pāremata (PCO), which is responsible for drafting and publishing most of New Zealand's legislation. Legislation can be found by browsing or searching, and can be printed or downloaded from the site.
Coverage: Acts and Statutory Regulations currently in force, or repealed/revoked after 4 September 2007, and Bills currently before Parliament. Does not include certain types of "deemed" regulations including rules, codes, and other legislative instruments that are not published in the Statutory Regulations series.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: Full-text
Description: A free database of up-to-date New Zealand Acts, Statutory Regulations and Bills. The database is provided by the New Zealand Parliamentary Counsel Office/Te Tari Tohutohu Pāremata (PCO), which is responsible for drafting and publishing most of New Zealand's legislation. Legislation can be found by browsing or searching, and can be printed or downloaded from the site.
Coverage: Acts and Statutory Regulations currently in force, or repealed/revoked after 4 September 2007, and Bills currently before Parliament. Does not include certain types of "deemed" regulations including rules, codes, and other legislative instruments that are not published in the Statutory Regulations series.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: Full-text
New Zealand Libraries' Catalogue
Published by: National Library of New Zealand
Description: provides information about and links to all the items held in New Zealand Libraries.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Description: provides information about and links to all the items held in New Zealand Libraries.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
New Zealand National Union Catalogue - formerly known as New Zealand National Bibliographic Database
Published by: National Library of New Zealand
Description: The Te Puna National Bibliographic Database (NBD) contains bibliographic records with holdings - New Zealand's National Union Catalogue. The NBD also has recent (after 1990) bibliographic records without holdings from Library of Congress, the British National Bibliography (BNB) and National Library of Australia (Kinetica). It also contains Library of Congress Subject Headings and Name Authorities.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: index only
Description: The Te Puna National Bibliographic Database (NBD) contains bibliographic records with holdings - New Zealand's National Union Catalogue. The NBD also has recent (after 1990) bibliographic records without holdings from Library of Congress, the British National Bibliography (BNB) and National Library of Australia (Kinetica). It also contains Library of Congress Subject Headings and Name Authorities.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: index only
New Zealand Refugee Law
Published by: Rodger Haines QC
Description: New Zealand Refugee Law provides the full text of all the leading decisions of New Zealand's Refugee Status Appeals Authority (RSAA) as well as the Practice Notes of the RSAA. The full text of New Zealand High Court and Court of Appeal cases dealing with refugee issues is separately provided together with comprehensive Headnotes and a Contents Index.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Description: New Zealand Refugee Law provides the full text of all the leading decisions of New Zealand's Refugee Status Appeals Authority (RSAA) as well as the Practice Notes of the RSAA. The full text of New Zealand High Court and Court of Appeal cases dealing with refugee issues is separately provided together with comprehensive Headnotes and a Contents Index.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Newztext
Published by: The Knowledge Basket
Description: Newztext is an archive of the full text of many of New Zealand's key news and business publications. Also includes the Radio New Zealand Newswires starting in 1999, TNS Regional Reports and access to NZ Science, Newsindex and Newspaper Index (via New Zealand Index).
Coverage: varies by publication, updated daily
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text
Quick links:
A list of titles indexed into Newzindex over the years
A list of titles indexed into NZ Science
Description: Newztext is an archive of the full text of many of New Zealand's key news and business publications. Also includes the Radio New Zealand Newswires starting in 1999, TNS Regional Reports and access to NZ Science, Newsindex and Newspaper Index (via New Zealand Index).
Coverage: varies by publication, updated daily
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text
Quick links:
A list of titles indexed into Newzindex over the years
A list of titles indexed into NZ Science
Nielsen Media Directory (password required, click here)
Published by: Nielsen Media Research
Description: The Media Directory is a comprehensive breakdown of all New Zealand media (over 2,000 listings) encompassing
Coverage: Varies by titles
Concurrent Users: 30
Content: Index
Description: The Media Directory is a comprehensive breakdown of all New Zealand media (over 2,000 listings) encompassing
- Advertising Agencies
- Cinema
- Events
- International Magazines (with a New Zealand rep)
- International Newspapers (with a New Zealand rep)
- Letterbox Advertising
- Magazines
- Media Services
- New Zealand Post Letterbox Advertising
- Newspapers
- Online Advertising
- Out-of-home
- Radio Stations
- Television
- Yellow Pages Group
Coverage: Varies by titles
Concurrent Users: 30
Content: Index
Nielsen TV Audience Measurement (New Zealand) (password required, click here)
Published by: Nielsen Media Research
Description: media research, dedicated to quantifying (size) and qualifying (characteristics) detailed television audience information.
Coverage: updated daily
Concurrent Users: 5
Content: full text
Description: media research, dedicated to quantifying (size) and qualifying (characteristics) detailed television audience information.
Coverage: updated daily
Concurrent Users: 5
Content: full text
Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers (Gale)
Published by: Gale
Description: The 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.
Coverage: 1800 - 1900
Content: significant full text
Concurrent Users: 3
Description: The 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.
Coverage: 1800 - 1900
Content: significant full text
Concurrent Users: 3
NISO Standards
Published by: NISO (National Information Standards Organization)
Description: The full text of all NISO developed and approved standards.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text
Description: The full text of all NISO developed and approved standards.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text
Niupepa: Maori Newspapers
Published by: the New Zealand Digital Library
Description: The niupepa collection consists of over 17,000 pages taken from 34 separate periodicals. It is based on "Niupepa 1842-1933", a microfiche collection produced by the Alexander Turnbull Library. 70% of the collection is written solely in Māori, 27% is bilingual and about 3% is written in English. There were three main types of niupepa published; government sponsored, Māori initiated, and religious.
Coverage: 1842 - 1932
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: Full text
Description: The niupepa collection consists of over 17,000 pages taken from 34 separate periodicals. It is based on "Niupepa 1842-1933", a microfiche collection produced by the Alexander Turnbull Library. 70% of the collection is written solely in Māori, 27% is bilingual and about 3% is written in English. There were three main types of niupepa published; government sponsored, Māori initiated, and religious.
Coverage: 1842 - 1932
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: Full text
Niustext
Published by: The Knowledge Basket
Description: A research archive for the South Pacific with contributions from the following information sources: Cook Islands News, Cook Islands Herald, Cook Islands Times, FemLINKPacific, Fiji Islands Business, Islands Business, Pacific Business Online, Pacific Islands News Association, Pacific Media Centre and South Pacific Regional Environment Programme.
Coverage: varies by publication, updated daily
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text
Description: A research archive for the South Pacific with contributions from the following information sources: Cook Islands News, Cook Islands Herald, Cook Islands Times, FemLINKPacific, Fiji Islands Business, Islands Business, Pacific Business Online, Pacific Islands News Association, Pacific Media Centre and South Pacific Regional Environment Programme.
Coverage: varies by publication, updated daily
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text
Nursing Education in Video
Published by: Alexander Street Press
Description: Result of Alexander Street’s partnership with Medcom-Trainex, one of the largest providers of nursing education video programs worldwide, gives faculty and students anywhere-anytime access to Medcom’s highly regarded library of full-length training programs. Already widely used in nursing courses and hospitals, Medcom videos have won more than 50 major awards for excellence, including the prestigious Emmy award.
Coverage: 260+ titles, updated continuously
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: video, full text
Description: Result of Alexander Street’s partnership with Medcom-Trainex, one of the largest providers of nursing education video programs worldwide, gives faculty and students anywhere-anytime access to Medcom’s highly regarded library of full-length training programs. Already widely used in nursing courses and hospitals, Medcom videos have won more than 50 major awards for excellence, including the prestigious Emmy award.
Coverage: 260+ titles, updated continuously
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: video, full text
Nursing, History and Health Care
Published by: University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Description: provides a unique perspective on the evolution of the nursing profession within the broader context of health care. The multidisciplinary scope of the information resources provides a panoramic view of the forces driving the development of a health care profession.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text
Description: provides a unique perspective on the evolution of the nursing profession within the broader context of health care. The multidisciplinary scope of the information resources provides a panoramic view of the forces driving the development of a health care profession.
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text
NZ Science
Published by: The Crown Research Institutes and The Royal Society of New Zealand
Description: The "New Zealand Science" database was originally created by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), the Divisions of which became the Crown Research Institutes (CRI's). It contains reasonably comprehensive indexed records of their scientists publications(international as well as local), some as far back as 1848 - now part of SuperIndex.
Coverage: varies by publication
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: index only
Description: The "New Zealand Science" database was originally created by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), the Divisions of which became the Crown Research Institutes (CRI's). It contains reasonably comprehensive indexed records of their scientists publications(international as well as local), some as far back as 1848 - now part of SuperIndex.
Coverage: varies by publication
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: index only
NZ Time Series - Available from AUT computers, on campus only, via the Library Applications Menu
Published by: EconData
Description: The New Zealand Time Series Database contains over 5000 economic, financial, and social time series from Statistics New Zealand, The Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the New Zealand Treasury and the NZ Land Transport Safety Authority.
Access: Available from AUT computers, on campus only, via the Library Applications Menu
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text
Click here for the NZ Time Series Database User Guide
Description: The New Zealand Time Series Database contains over 5000 economic, financial, and social time series from Statistics New Zealand, The Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the New Zealand Treasury and the NZ Land Transport Safety Authority.
Access: Available from AUT computers, on campus only, via the Library Applications Menu
Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Content: full text
Click here for the NZ Time Series Database User Guide
nzresearch.org.nz - formerly called Kiwi Research Information Service
Published by: National Library of New Zealand
Description: This website is a gateway to the open-access research documents (eg theses, dissertations and academic articles) produced at universities, polytechnics, and other research institutions throughout New Zealand. It harvests research document metadata from around New Zealand and collects it in one place. You may search by subject, author, institution and browse in various ways. Links are provided to each of the institutional repository homepages.
Coverage: Varies by subject
Concurrent User: Unlimited
Content: Significant full text
Description: This website is a gateway to the open-access research documents (eg theses, dissertations and academic articles) produced at universities, polytechnics, and other research institutions throughout New Zealand. It harvests research document metadata from around New Zealand and collects it in one place. You may search by subject, author, institution and browse in various ways. Links are provided to each of the institutional repository homepages.
Coverage: Varies by subject
Concurrent User: Unlimited
Content: Significant full text
NZX Company Research - includes Capital Raisings Database
Published by: NZX
Description: The NZX Company Research provides a comprehensive regularly updated analysis of New Zealand listed company data. It offers several significant enhancements. Includes Expansion of database, Complete history of Financial Data, Daily Announcements, Australia & NZ Annual Reports Data, Daily Trading Price Histories since 1998, monthly forecasts histories, Major Shareholders, NZCSD Holders, Events Summaries, Brokers Earnings/Dividend Forecasts, Daily Stock Exchange Indices.
Coverage: Updated daily
Concurrent User: Unlimited
Content: Full text
Platform: NZX
Description: The NZX Company Research provides a comprehensive regularly updated analysis of New Zealand listed company data. It offers several significant enhancements. Includes Expansion of database, Complete history of Financial Data, Daily Announcements, Australia & NZ Annual Reports Data, Daily Trading Price Histories since 1998, monthly forecasts histories, Major Shareholders, NZCSD Holders, Events Summaries, Brokers Earnings/Dividend Forecasts, Daily Stock Exchange Indices.
Coverage: Updated daily
Concurrent User: Unlimited
Content: Full text
Platform: NZX
Click to see detailed information.
indicates a database with significant New Zealand content.
Database License Conditions: The Library licenses databases for use by current staff and students of AUT. Under the terms of our license agreements data may only be used for the purposes of University teaching, research and study. Copyright information included by the database owners may not be obscured or removed. No data may be copied for sale or used for any commercial purposes, nor may it be copied or reproduced for the benefit of any third party external to AUT.
Last updated: 07 Sep 2010 12:30pm