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Databases
Infoshare (Statistics New Zealand)
Coverage: Full text
Online access to a wide range of time series data. This web-based tool can be used to view and download the most up-to-date information from the largest database of official statistics in New Zealand, and select data specific to your interests.
Coverage: Full text
Online access to a wide range of time series data. This web-based tool can be used to view and download the most up-to-date information from the largest database of official statistics in New Zealand, and select data specific to your interests.
Scopus
Coverage: Citations and Abstracts
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyse and visualise research. For personalised features, click on the "Register" link on the top right hand corner of any page.
» User Guide
Coverage: Citations and Abstracts
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyse and visualise research. For personalised features, click on the "Register" link on the top right hand corner of any page.
» User Guide
Social Work Abstracts
Coverage: 1997 to present (Index)
Social Work Abstracts covers over 450 journals in all areas of the profession, including theory and practice, areas of service, social issues and problems. The Register of Clinical Social Workers is a directory of clinical social workers in the US.
Coverage: 1997 to present (Index)
Social Work Abstracts covers over 450 journals in all areas of the profession, including theory and practice, areas of service, social issues and problems. The Register of Clinical Social Workers is a directory of clinical social workers in the US.
Statistics for Universities
Coverage: Full text
Access to a range of New Zealand statistics prepared specially for Universities. Includes census, disability, vitals, migration and business demography data.
Coverage: Full text
Access to a range of New Zealand statistics prepared specially for Universities. Includes census, disability, vitals, migration and business demography data.
Dictionaries
Basic Concepts for Qualitative Research
A useful resource for all serious qualitative researchers and students of qualitative methodology.
A useful resource for all serious qualitative researchers and students of qualitative methodology.
Dictionary of Statistics and Methodology: A Nontechnical Guide for the Social Sciences
A sourcebook of simple definitions and explanations of statistical and statistics-related concepts.
A sourcebook of simple definitions and explanations of statistical and statistics-related concepts.
Qualitative Inquiry: A Dictionary of Terms
Focusing primarily on philosophical and methodological concepts rather than technical aspects of methods and procedures, this dictionary provides a guide to the terms and phrases which help shape the nature, purpose, logic, meaning and methods of qualitative inquiry.
Focusing primarily on philosophical and methodological concepts rather than technical aspects of methods and procedures, this dictionary provides a guide to the terms and phrases which help shape the nature, purpose, logic, meaning and methods of qualitative inquiry.
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of Social Measurement
This encyclopedia addresses a broad range of measurement topics which are relevant across several disciplines including sociology, demography, and epidemiology.
This encyclopedia addresses a broad range of measurement topics which are relevant across several disciplines including sociology, demography, and epidemiology.
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
An encyclopedia covering all the fields in the social and behavioural sciences. Comprises 4,000 articles, commissioned by 52 Section Editors, and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes.
An encyclopedia covering all the fields in the social and behavioural sciences. Comprises 4,000 articles, commissioned by 52 Section Editors, and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes.
Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods
Covers all disciplines within the social sciences with each entry covering both quantitative and qualitative methods.
Covers all disciplines within the social sciences with each entry covering both quantitative and qualitative methods.
New Zealand Databases
Index New Zealand (INNZ)
Coverage: 1987 to present (Index)
Contains abstracts of selected New Zealand serials, including newspapers, about New Zealand and the South Pacific. Subjects covered include general interest material, social research, current affairs, the arts and humanities.
Coverage: 1987 to present (Index)
Contains abstracts of selected New Zealand serials, including newspapers, about New Zealand and the South Pacific. Subjects covered include general interest material, social research, current affairs, the arts and humanities.
Websites
Intute: Social Sciences
Intute: Social Sciences finds and reviews the best web resources. (For Labour Studies remember to search for both labour and labor).
Intute: Social Sciences finds and reviews the best web resources. (For Labour Studies remember to search for both labour and labor).
Statistics New Zealand
A source of New Zealand economic and demographic indicators. Also includes Infoshare, a source of time series economic indicators.
A source of New Zealand economic and demographic indicators. Also includes Infoshare, a source of time series economic indicators.
