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Databases & indexes

	Academic OneFile Provides indexing/abstracting for over 12,500 journals and reference sources; over 5,000 in full-text and more than 7,300 peer-reviewed. Coverage includes the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.
	Academic Search Complete (via Ebsco) Provides indexing and abstracting for more than 10,000 journals, with full-text coverage for more than 6.000 titles. Covers a wide range of areas of academic study from the sciences to the arts.
	Arts & Humanities Citation Index via Web of Knowledge A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,160 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. It also indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
	Current Contents Connect via Web of Knowledge Multidisciplinary, current awareness database of articles as they are published. Provides access to the table of contents and bibliographic data from 8000+ leading scholarly research journals and book.
	Index New Zealand The key New Zealand database for social sciences, arts, humanities and general interest material. INNZ provides citation access to over half a million articles published in over 400 New Zealand and South Pacific newspaper and journal titles from 1987 to the present.
	JSTOR Provides full-text access to back issues (delay in coverage generally 3-5 years) of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. The Library subscription includes access to the Life Sciences Collection and the Arts & Sciences Collections I - VIII.
	LION: Literature Online Contains all other LION databases, including criticism and reference (eg. MLA and ABELL) and full texts of literary works.
	MLA International Bibliography via LION (Literature Online) Bibliographic records relating to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. It provides access to scholarly research in 3,000+ journals/series and also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies etc.
	PIO: Periodicals Index Online International index to 3,600+ international humanities & social sciences journals.
	ProQuest 5000 Proquest is a leading electronic database providing indexing and abstracting of over 7,000 scholarly and general interest publications. It includes full text or full image coverage of more than 3,000 of these publications.
	Te Puna Search the National Bibliographic Database for items held in libraries throughout New Zealand.
	Wakareo-a-ipurangi Comprehensive and up-to-the-minute online Māori - English - Māori dictionary resource.
	Wilson Art Abstracts (via OvidSP) A bibliographic database that cites articles from several hundred periodicals including English-language yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. WART also indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.

Additional New Zealand databases and resources

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Reference

• Art Index (Film Reviews) - Cen:Ref N/1/A1/ZA7
• Book review index - Cen:Ref/Z/1035/A1/BP97
• Index to New Zealand periodicals - Cen:Ref Z/6962/N5/IC5
• New Zealand literature file
• New Zealand national bibliography 1966+ - Cen:Ref Z/4401/ NH34. 1983+ cabinet near microfiche readers
• The Oxford companion to New Zealand literature 1998 - Cen:Ref PR/9620.2/OZ5
• The Oxford history of New Zealand literature in English 2nd ed 1998 - Cen:Ref PR/19624.3/O25
• Bibliographies of particular authors - Cen:Ref PR/9640 to Ref PR/9641
• Contemporary authors 1967+ - Cen:Ref PN/771/CRL72

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Web sites

• NZ electronic poetry centre
• NZ literature file - Selected NZ & Pacific authors with biographical and critical references
• Zeroland - Directory of NZ Literature and NZ Writers on the web

Last revised: 24 August, 2009