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Coverage: Coverage: 1978- Index, 2000- Full-text.
An indexing and full-text database providing access to information about all aspects of education in Australasia including New Zealand. Sources include journals, monographs, research reports, theses, conferences legislation, parliamentary debates, newspapers, tests and the web.
Coverage: Coverage: 1971- Some Full-Text.
In-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, company information, and business and executive profiles.
Coverage: Coverage: 1971- Some Full-Text.
Covers 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus in every major industry. Provides access to the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, etc.
Coverage: 1985 to present (Some full text)
Coverage of U.S. local and regional business news gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications.
Coverage: 1980 to present (Full text)
This database offers peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature plus other subjects.
Coverage: 1971 to present (Some full text)
Provides access to information from journals across a wide range of subject areas, including the arts, humanities, law, military, women's issues, and children's interest.
Coverage: 1975 to present (Some full text)
Offers information from journals in nearly every area of academic study.
Coverage: 1971 to present (Some full text).
Comprehensive coverage of accounting and tax topics appearing in key industry publications and newspapers. Two subsets of this database are available for searching: Accounting and Tax Newspapers and Accounting and Tax Periodicals.
Coverage: 1947 to present (Some full text).
Contains citations, abstracts & full-text of articles published in Association for Computing Machinery journals, proceedings & selected works published by affiliates & special interest groups; & tables of contents for ACM newsletters published since 1985.
Coverage: 1970 to present (Index)
Covers agriculture & related areas such as animal husbandry, food science, pesticides, soil science, forestry, botany etc. Prepared by the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Contains records from journals, monographs, technical reports, theses etc.
Coverage: Some full text
The American Chemical Society is a leading publisher of peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences. Access to full-text is available for ACS journals from date of first publication.
Profiles of over 17,400 people who have helped to shape the USA. Quarterly updates provide new entries and revisions of existing entries to enhance their accuracy and currency. The database features hyperlinked cross-references & links to select web sites.
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In 1879 the Government commissioned White to compile an Official Maori History. 7 vols appeared between 1887 and 1891, 6 remained in manuscript form. The UoW Library has now published all 13 volumes. Available On-Campus only. Requires W3Launch software.
Coverage: Coverage varies (Full text).
A comprehensive electronic collection of Annual Reviews volumes with content spanning the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences dating back to the first volume in 1932 to the present.
Coverage: 1978 to present (Some full text).
Subject coverage includes Australian business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences.
Coverage: Coverage varies (Full text).
This database offers full-text academic literature on Asian social sciences, business, economic development and current affairs. 53 countries are covered.
Coverage: Full text.
This database offers full-text peer-reviewed literature devoted to Asian Humanities - Asian languages, arts, culture, history and religion. 53 countries are covered.
Coverage: Coverage varies (Full text).
This database allows searching of more than 200 databases containing legislation, case-law, law reform reports and legal journals from 28 countries including the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Pakistan, Mongolia and East Timor.
Coverage: Coverage varies (Full text).
The Institute provides free access to primary (legislation, treaties and decisions of courts and tribunals); and secondary (e.g. law reform and royal commission reports) Australasian legal materials.
The ADT Website, was decommissioned in March 2011. Theses are accessible via the awarding institutions, via Google, and via the National Library of Australia's Trove discovery service. For further information, see Finding Australian theses. New Zealand theses are accessible via the Kiwi Research Information Service. For recent Waikato theses, see the Research Commons.
Coverage: Coverage varies (Some full text).
Combines Australian and New Zealand magazines, newspapers, newswires, reference books and company information to create a collection of Australasian content giving a local perspective on current events, business, sports, etc.
Coverage: 1788-1981 (Full text).
Contains over 10,000 articles on around 11,000 persons (some articles are on more than one person) who were important in Australian history or who represent aspects of the Australian experience.
Coverage: Coverage varies (Full text).
The Institute provides access to the most comprehensive set of British and Irish primary legal materials that are available for free and in one place on the Internet.
Coverage: 1971 to present (Some full text).
Search essential banking industry publications providing information about the financial services industry, banking, and industry trends.
Coverage: 1971 to present (Index)
Provides access to principally western-language articles and book chapters on all subjects (but especially the humanities and the social sciences) relating to all parts of Asia.
Coverage: Index
Accessed through findNZarticles this is a retrospective listing of bibliographies published in or about New Zealand. Search by author, editor, title, publisher, subject and keyword then select the bibliography from the fourth drop down menu.
Coverage: Index
Accessed through findNZarticles this is a listing of separately published histories of families with descendents in New Zealand. After entering your search select the bibliography from the fourth drop down menu.
Coverage: Index
Accessed through findNZarticles this is a bibliography of all publications - books, theses, journal articles, AJHR reports, special issues of newspapers - which relate to the Waikato Region. After entering your search select the bibliography from the fourth drop down menu.
Coverage: Index
Accessed through findNZarticles this is a bibliography of books, theses, reports, book chapters and journal articles relating to homosexuality in New Zealand. After entering your search select the bibliography from the fourth drop down menu.
Contains biographical information on over 320,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all subject areas. Also search the Complete Marquis Who's Who, and find quick reference information on an additional 900,000 people.
Offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. Combining over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian's favourites lists.
Searches the entire marketplace of books, e-books, audio books, and videos, and discover where to buy. Previously known as Global Books in Print.
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Compiled by the Funding Information Service this database, contains details of awards, scholarships and grants available to New Zealand individuals for personal development, principally in academic, artistic, research and sporting fields.
Access to Brookers online New Zealand legal sources including New Zealand Statutes, case law and commentary.
Coverage: 1994 to present (Some full text)
A broad-based business information database that focuses on facts, figures, events and market information about companies, industries, products and markets. It covers all industries and is international in scope.
Coverage: Some full text
Emphasises the practical side of business and management processes and practices, namely, how organisations make decisions, adopt and implement new technologies and plan for change and expansion. Focuses on real life applications and case studies.
Coverage: Coverage: 1993 - (Full text)
Covers all broad business fields, including: accounting, career development, commercial law, commodities, corporate governance, e-business, economics, employment, human resources, labour, management, marketing, occupational health, taxation, and unions.
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Coverage: 1922 to present (Some full text)
Covers most subject areas related to business. In addition to journals, includes other sources of full text information such as country economic reports and detailed company profiles.
Coverage: Directory only
Provides current information on the contact information, publication guidelines, review information and circulation data for a large number of journals in the subject fields: accounting; economics and finance; management and marketing. Please note that this database does not provide access to full text journal articles.
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Coverage: Coverage varies (Some full text)
Full text of journals published by Cambridge University Press. Includes over 100 journals in sciences, social sciences and humanities. Users can register to save searches, receive alerts to articles and tables of contents for journals of interest.
Information on over 30,000 Canadian companies, featuring nearly 100,000 product listings under more than 20,000 headings. Searchable by Company Name, Product/Services Description, or Trademark and further refined by region. Users must register to search.
Coverage: Coverage varies (Full text)
The Canadian Legal Information Institute provides free access to a comprehensive collection of Canadian legal information.
This database can be used to research virtually any vocational/technical topic, including technology, healthcare, building trades, auto mechanics, sales and retail, accounting, graphic design, photography, and nursing.
Coverage: 1980 to present (Some full text)
Coverage of a broad range of Canadian business journals including trade, academic and topical journals and general business and professional publications.
Coverage: 1970 to present (Some full text)
Information for those interested in teaching, educational research and educational administration in Canada. Includes over 400 academic, administrative, professional and topical journals and newsletters.
Coverage: Coverage varies (Full text)
New Zealand and Australian primary and secondary sources on tax, employment, company, and health and safety law.
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Coverage: Some full text.
Digital library of scientific literature collected from the Internet. Focuses primarily on computer and information science. Primarily full-text, but some citations only. Search by keyword or citation.
Coverage: 1975 to present (Index)
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.
Coverage: Full text.
Comprises thousands of essays, many with images. Subjects include: adult, behavioural, paediatric, senior and women's health, cardiology, eye, drug and medication information, and sports medicine.
Coverage: 1996 to present (Full text)
A collection of regularly updated evidence-based healthcare databases bringing together research looking at the effectiveness of different health care treatments and interventions.
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Coverage: Coverage varies (Index)
Abstracts of articles and books published in the primary professional literature of the communications field. Provided by the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship.
Coverage: Coverage varies (Full text)
The Commonwealth Legal Information Institute provides free access to legal information from 59 Commonwealth and common law countries and territories.
Coverage: Coverage varies (Some full text)
A resource for students, researchers and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media.
Coverage: 1969 to present (Index)
Search Engineering Village2, a combination of Compendex and INSPEC, for a broad range of topics within the scientific, applied science, technical and engineering disciplines. Provides access to seven related databases.
Computer science technical reports downloaded from selected Internet sites. The collection contains many large documents, such as PhD theses, which are mostly in English. Every word on every page of every report can be searched.
Coverage: 1985 to present (Some full text)
The latest information and current trends in high technology areas including computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software.
Coverage: 1992 to present (Full text)
A women's studies resource that covers a spectrum of women's concerns in over 190 countries. Topics covered include domestic violence, employment and the workplace, gender equity, family, reproductive health, and human rights.
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Coverage: 1999 to present (Full text)
Judgements dating from 1999 are available.
Coverage: Current editions (Full text)
An online reference library providing access to over 400 reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, plus a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.
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Coverage: 1998 to present (Index)
Contains records from over 8,800 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books in the sciences, social sciences and arts and humanities. Updated daily.
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Coverage: 1769 to present (Full text)
Biographies of over 3,000 deceased New Zealanders who have made their mark on this country.
Coverage: Full text
Access to the full-text of over 4300 free, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in all subjects and languages. Over 1600 of these journals are searchable at the article level.
A collection of electronic versions of significant New Zealand books originally published in the nineteenth century. Provided by University of Auckland Library.
Previously named NetLibrary, this collection integrates the content from eBooks and databases in nearly every area of academic study.
Over 70,000 book titles from 180+ academic publishers. You may create a personal account to save book links, bookmarks within a book, annotate pages, and highlight passages for later reference.
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Coverage: Coverage varies (Some full text).
A collection of some 22 databases covering all subject areas. To search a single database click on the database name. To search more than one database check the boxes next to the database names and click continue.
Coverage: 1969 to present (Some full text)
Econlit is provided by the American Economic Association and covers virtually every area related to economics.
Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.
Coverage: Full text
Access the full-text of over 2,000 magazines, newspapers, transcripts and reference books plus thousands of web links, maps, pictures and audio video files covering all subject areas.
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Coverage: Full text (Abstracts available from 1988)
Provides access to the full-text of 190 journals and reviews from a further 300 in the fields of management, accounting and finance, librarianship, engineering and computer science. See Emerald homepage for latest news and announcements.
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Coverage: Full text
Includes the complete encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, Britannica Book of the Year, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools. More product information available from the following Fact Sheet
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Encyclopedia Britannica School Edition offers encyclopedias for students of all levels. See the Guided Tour to help you choose a library with content and features appropriate for your grade level.
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Coverage: 1969 to present (Index)
Search a combination of Compendex and INSPEC for a broad range of topics within the scientific, applied science, technical and engineering disciplines. Provides access to seven related databases.
Coverage: 1473-1800 (Index)
A bibliography of books, serials, pamphlets and other ephemeral material printed in English-speaking countries from 1473 to 1800, based on the collections of over 2,000 institutions world-wide.
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Coverage: 1966 to present (Some full text)
ERIC is a digital library of education-related literature (including journals) to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching and educational decision-making.
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Coverage: 1966 to present (Some full text)
The Proquest version of the ERIC database which provides extensive coverage of the journal and report literature in the field of education and education related areas.
EUR-Lex provides direct free access to European Union law. Consult the Official Journal of the European Union as well as the treaties, legislation, case-law and legislative proposals.
Coverage: Current edition (Full text)
Lists political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, including recent history; government; economic affairs; defence; education; social welfare. Describes over 1,650 International Organisations.
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Coverage: Coverage varies (Full text)
Search newspapers, journals, newswires, media programme transcripts, pictures, and company background data extending back over 25 years in this global news and information service. Only three simultaneous logins are permitted.
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Coverage: 1990 to present (Index)
Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. Books written by a single author are not indexed.
Coverage: 1992-2004 (Index)
An index to film reviews published in journals held by the University of Waikato Library.
Coverage: Coverage varies (Index)
FindNZarticles provides access to New Zealand content, including material by or about New Zealanders, from a range of New Zealand newspapers and journals. Includes index to Te Ao Hou.
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Coverage: 1980 to present (Some full text)
A general database covering a wide range of topics including business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature, art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology.
A search tool which allows searches across many disciplines and sources. By accessing Google Scholar from this site, any search results which are part of a Library subscription will be indicated by the Find@Waikato link.
Coverage: 1987 to present (Full text)
Search the full-text of the New Zealand Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) from 1987 onwards via Knowledge Basket.
Coverage: 1987 to present (Some full text)
Designed to serve a wide range of people who need health information - from hospital administrators to medical professionals to consumers, this database provides information on thousands of medical topics.
Coverage: 1980 to present (Some full text)
Provides medical, health, and nutrition information from reference sources as well as full-text magazines, journals, pamphlets and web sites from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources.
Coverage: 1965 to present (Full text)
Provides coverage of all aspects of health care administration and other non-clinical aspects of health care institution management.
Coverage: 1985 to present (Full text)
Covers topics like AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs, alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition, dietetics, children's and women's health, etc. Includes Stedman's Medical Dictionary and Clinical Pharmacology.
Coverage: 1975 to present (Some full text)
This database focuses on many medical disciplines. Includes particularly strong coverage of nursing and allied health.
Coverage: Coverage varies (Full text)
HeinOnline provides access to around 1200 classic legal texts, law journals, US statutory and legal resources, the European Centre for minority issues and the full reprint of the English reports (1220-1865).
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Search historical maps from the University of Waikato Library's Map Collection. The selection focuses on the Waikato and Bay of Plenty regions of the North Island of New Zealand. Some maps are of New Zealand as a whole and the Southwest Pacific.
Search and browse a selection of historical photographs and postcards from the University of Waikato Library's Collection. Some photos of New Zealanders in other parts of the world are also presented.
Search and browse a selection of historical Waikato rugby photographs from the University of Waikato Library's Collection associated with the 1956 Springbok rugby team's visit to Hamilton to play Waikato (the Mooloos).
Coverage: Coverage varies (Full text)
The Hong Kong Legal Information Institute provides free access to primary legal information (and some publicly available secondary materials) relating to Hong Kong.
Coverage: 1960 to present (Some full text)
Covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism.
Coverage: Coverage: 1998 - (Full text)
Dedicated to content from and about Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia, this database covers agriculture, arts, Asian studies, business, cultural studies, education, history, indigenous studies, law, media, political science, reference, social sciences, science and technology.
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Coverage: Some full text
A searchable database of the ICJ's (International Commission of Jurists) press releases, reports, legal documents & key external legal materials.
Coverage: Journals: 1988 to present; Conference proceedings: 1995 to present (Full text)
The IEEE Computer Society Library Subscription Plan (CSLSP-e) provides full-text access to 33 IEEE Computer Society periodicals and over 3,300 conference proceedings titles.
Coverage: 1853-1902
A Digital Library of the New Zealand content from the Illustrated London News, 1853 to 1902.
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.
Originally a manuscript compiled about 1925 by the missionary Henry James Fletcher. Comprises an index of Māori names referred to in books and journals. Includes boundaries, Māori individuals, canoes, trees, landmarks and geographical locations.
A searchable index of legal essays from several English language jurisdictions. Jointly produced by the University of Auckland and the Law Foundation of New Zealand - Te Manatu a Ture o Aotearoa.
Coverage: 1960s to present (Index)
Indexes articles on New Zealand artists, art galleries and museums, exhibitions and art events. Details of images and illustrations are also included.
Coverage: 1716 to present
A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716. Contains links to freely available full-text.
Searchable web database containing details of over 7,000 books, articles, conference papers and reports on various aspects of indigenous education from publishers in Australia and overseas. Material in the database is currently drawn from the Australian Education Index, produced by Cunningham Library, with additional material to be sourced from a variety of international organisations and publishers.
Informit Index databases offer a selection of over 70 databases that provide access to current and retrospective bibliographic information; abstracts; and selected full text web links from thousands of Australasia's leading scholarly titles. Data is drawn from Australasia's leading government agencies, institutions, societies and associations.
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: Some full text
A collection of academic and professional journals with full-text access to a limited number of journals to which the Library subscribes. Combines the former Ingenta Journals and Ingenta Select.
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Coverage: Full text
International Children's Digital Library, developed by the Internet Archive and the University of Maryland, features a multilingual, international collection of children's books. The ICDL collection includes 1817 books in 38 languages.
Coverage: Coverage varies (Full text)
A number of management journals made available by managementjournals.com Limited (UK). Broad coverage area.
Coverage: 1989 to present (Index)
Indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world on political science, including international relations.
Coverage: Coverage varies (Full text)
Access to the full-text of eight journals to which the library currently subscribes, and full-text of the journals in the historic archive package, 1874-1997.
Coverage: 2001 to present
Allows the evaluation & comparison of journals using citation data. Includes over 7,000 journals from most areas of science, technology, & social sciences. Shows most frequently cited journals, highest impact journals & most published articles in a field.
Coverage: Index
ISI Web of Knowledge includes access to Web of Science, Current Contents Connect and Journal Citation Reports.
Coverage: 1975 to present (Index)
Includes approximately 10,000 journals combining Science Citation, Social Sciences Citation and Arts and Humanities Citation Indexes. Allows keyword, author, title, author's address and cited reference searching. Includes ISI Proceedings. To access personalised features, such as 'My Citation Alerts', remember to sign in first. If slow to load, clear browser cache.
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A database created from material held in the heritage and research collections of Auckland City Libraries.
Coverage: Coverage varies (Full text)
Access to archival issues of journals with coverage usually ending three to five years before present. Back issues of over 600 journals in the arts, humanities, science, and social sciences with links to current issues available in Project Muse.
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A small collection of applied science reference books. Click on "My Subscription" to view the titles (K-Essentials and Permanent Access titles).
Coverage: Current edition (Directory)
Contains information on over 1.8 million companies worldwide. Can be searched by Products & services, company name, trade name, and executives. Searches may be further refined by region. Only one user allowed at a time.
Coverage: 1967 to present (Full text)
Monthly reports covering economic and political developments in Latin America. To connect to members area, click on 'automatic IP recognition' link.
Coverage: Vol. 1186 (1997) to present (Full text)
Coverage of earlier years is not comprehensive. Includes Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics. Publishes new developments in computer science and information technology research, development and education.
Coverage: 1980 to present (Some full text)
Articles from all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers, including more than 200 titles in full text.
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Coverage: 1979 to present (Index)
Contains citations with abstracts to current journal and other published literature relating to leisure, recreation and tourism activities and associated facilities and allied topics.
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Coverage: Full text
Access to state and federal case law; codes and statutes; court documents; over 3.5 billion public records; business news, legal news, regional news etc.
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Coverage: Full text
Access to New Zealand statutes, case law and commentary.
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Coverage: 1960 to present (Index)
Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry and scholarly communication.
Coverage: Coverage varies (Full text)
LII is provided by the Cornell Law School and offers access to selected United States primary and secondary sources. These include Court opinions, Constitutional Law resources, subject guides, directories and special reference libraries.
Coverage: Full text
Literature Resource Center (LRC) provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analyses of over 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. A significant amount of New Zealand content is included.
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Topographical maps of New Zealand. Available On-Campus only. This link will launch an external application. Safari/Firefox users, contact Library for more information
MarketLine (Datamonitor 360) offers a comprehensive and unique collection of company, industry and country information, extending across 200+ countries and every major industry sector. Updated on a daily basis, it is a dynamic access point to the world of market intelligence.
Coverage: 1975 to present (Some full text)
Designed for high school libraries. Provides full-text & abstracts from popular general interest & current events publications, full-text pamphlets, reference books, biographies, primary source documents, & an image collection of photos, maps & flags.
Coverage: 1975 to present (Some full text)
Designed for public libraries. Covers most subject areas of general interest. Includes full text from general reference publications, biographies and an image collection of photos, maps and flags.
Experience a selection of pictures, sounds and objects from New Zealand's archives, galleries, libraries and museums. Search over 175,000 pictures, objects, sounds, movies and texts.
Coverage: 1940 to present (Some full text)
Covers the world's mathematical literature providing access to the bibliographic data & reviews of mathematical research literature in Mathematical Reviews. Contains signed reviews & links to original articles and other original documents when available.
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Coverage: Full text
Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMYB) contains full text about and reviews of all English-language standardised tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, and psychology. Please log out after using MMYB (only 1 user allowed).
Coverage: 1926 to present (Index)
Produced by the Modern Language Association. Provides access to scholarly research in over 7,000 journals and series as well as monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies etc in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
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Indexes Maori topics appearing in books, conference proceedings and journals which cannot otherwise easily be found in regular sources.
Coverage: 1865-1910 (Index)
The Maori Land Court Minute Books index provides easy and quick access to over 1100 minute books between 1865 and 1910, from the Taitokerau, Waikato-Maniapoto, Tairawhiti, Waiariki, Aotea, Takitimu, and Waipounamu Maori Land Court Districts.
Coverage: 1953 to present
The full-text of decisions of the Maori Land Court from 1953, plus summaries of cases relating to Maori land held in New Zealand Courts 1958 - 1983. Available on-campus only. Requires W3 Launch software.
Coverage: 1840 to present (Index)
A summary of all New Zealand legislation since 1840 (including private and local Acts) which has affected Maori or Maori land. Includes brief notes on the historical context & the impact of each Act cited, with references to other Government publications.
A collection of historic newspapers published primarily for a Māori audience between 1842 and 1932.
Coverage: Full text
Access to full-text working papers prepared by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
The New Zealand Digital Library project is a research programme at The University of Waikato. This website provides several document collections, including historical documents, humanitarian and development information, computer science technical reports and bibliographies, literary works, and magazines.
Growing archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials, including images and full-text books, manuscripts and journals. All resources are fully searchable. Produced by Victoria University of Wellington.
Coverage: Index
Provides links to key sources of New Zealand fisheries management and policy information covering social, economic, environmental, recreational and customary rights information.
Coverage: 1841 to present (Full text)
The New Zealand Gazette is the official newspaper of the Government of New Zealand and is produced by the Department of Internal Affairs.
Includes NZ Science; Newzindex; Index New Zealand; Newspaper Index (articles about MPs etc, 1993-2003); Index Auckland (1840-); Family Notices (NZ Herald); INZART (Index to New Zealand art); NZ Womans Weekly (1932-1951).
The full-text of the New Zealand Law journal since 1925. Available on-campus only. Requires W3Launch software.
New Zealand Acts, Bills and Regulations freely available to download.
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Coverage: Index
Contains bibliographic records for books and journals published worldwide, and indicates which New Zealand libraries may have copies.
Coverage: 1995 to present (Some full text)
Selected full text for 25 major international newspapers and over 200 regional U.S. newspapers and full text television and radio news transcripts from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc.
Coverage: 1985 to present (Index)
Indexes items of interest to business and industry from New Zealand's business and commercial publications including journals, newsletters and newspapers. Select from the New Zealand Index menu.
Coverage: 1980 to present (Some full text)
Covers New Zealand magazines with a business or industry orientation and includes Stock Exchange Announcements (1995- ).
Coverage: 1980 to present (Some full text)
Includes content from New Zealand newspapers (Fairfax, NZ Herald)and The Independent UK.
Includes INNZ; newspapers (Fairfax, NZ Herald and The Independent UK); magazines (with a business or industry orientation); newswires (Radio NZ and Scoop); Newzindex and TNS Regional and Industry Reports (business research and intelligence).
Niustext is a Knowledge Basket database providing a searchable full text database reflecting the publishing activity and radio newsfeeds of the islands of the Pacific.
Coverage: 1840 to present
An index of New Zealand science provided by The Crown Research Institutes and The Royal Society of New Zealand. Select from the New Zealand Index menu.
Coverage: Coverage varies (Full text)
The New Zealand Legal Information Institute (NZLII) provides free access to legal information in New Zealand.
Coverage: Full text
Provides access to NZ company profiles, financials, announcements, annual reports, prices, charts, forecasts, top 50 shareholders, etc.
Coverage: Directory
Provided by the US Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration. Includes detailed information on over 960 occupations, detailing skills, abilities, tasks, knowledge, work activities, experience levels required etc.
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Coverage: 1997 to present
The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development's (OECD) periodic reviews of member and non-member economies. Each issue provides a comprehensive analysis of developments in the subject country, along with individual chapters covering key economic challenges being faced and recommendations for dealing with the challenges.
Coverage: Some full text
The US Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information provides access to a wealth of energy, science, and technology research and development information from the Manhattan Project to the present.
Coverage: Full text
Provides information on today's social issues. Resources include full text magazine and newspaper articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents and links to web sites.
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Coverage: Full text
The Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) is a UK Government website that provides a wide range of services to the public, information industry, government and the wider public sector including access to UK legislation and feeds for new legislation. Formerly HMSO (Her Majesty's Stationery Office).
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Coverage: Full text
Access The Dictionary of Art & The Oxford Companion to Western Art. Includes ongoing additions of new & updated articles, thumbnail art images & line drawings displayed in the article text, extensive image links, & sophisticated search & navigation tools. Previously known as Grove Art Online.
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Coverage: 400BC-2004 (Full text)
An illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2004. Excludes living people.
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The meaning, history and pronunciation of over 500,000 words, both present and past, from across the English-speaking world. Includes the usage of words, etymological analysis, and variant spellings. Shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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Full-text of journals published by Oxford University Press. Users can browse journals by title or search across the entire online collection.
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Access The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. The database includes over 3,000 links to related sites, including sound archives, and is updated annually. Previously known as Grove Music Online.
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Access around 200 language and subject reference works from Oxford University Press in a single cross-searchable resource.
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The Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (PacLII) provides free access to legal information gathered from countries in the South Pacific.
Coverage: 1839 to 1945
Papers Past contains more than one million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The collection covers the years 1839 to 1945 and includes publications from all regions of New Zealand.
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Coverage: 1993 to present (Index)
An index of papers presented at every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.
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Provides key business intelligence on countries, companies, markets, and consumers. Includes country statistics, market data, lifestyle indicators and analysis, market analysis, company and country profiles. Login not required.
Coverage: 1974 to present (Some full text)
Search this database for pharmacological news, research, and regulatory information. It covers specialised publications in the pharmaceutical, health care, biotechnology, and medical device industries.
Coverage: 1940 to present (Index)
Indexes and abstracts books and journals of philosophy and related fields. Covers ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, logic, and metaphysics as well as material on the philosophy of disciplines, such as law, religion, science, history, and education.
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Coverage: 1970-present
Includes curricula, sports medicine, dance, sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, sport sociology/psychology, health education and physical therapy.
Coverage: 1871 to present (Index)
PILOTS (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress) aims to cover all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental-health consequences of traumatic events.
Coverage: 1986-2000 (Index)
A searchable and browsable database containing 46,035 abstracts from books, journal articles, working papers of demographic literature etc, published in Population Index in the period 1986-2000.
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Press Display offers access to today's newspapers in their original format. No additional software is required. Includes all articles, features and ads. Over 1700 titles from over 90 countries and 48 languages are available, with new titles added monthly.
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Coverage: 1993 to present (Index)
An index of every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.
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Includes over 300 journals from over 70 scholarly publishers covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
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Coverage: 1893-2005 (Full text)
Access to the full-text of all American Physical Society journals published between 1893 and 2005, as well as the full-text of APS journals to which the Library currently subscribes.
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Coverage: 1971 to present (Some full text)
A collection of databases which, when searched together, provides information on all subject areas. Contains millions of full-text articles, abstracts and indexes from over 6,000 journals, newspapers etc.
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Coverage: 1971 to present (Some full text)
Covers Asian business and financial information from key international publications. Provides information on companies, economies, markets, and business conditions throughout the Eastern Hemisphere. Includes much information on international trade.
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Coverage: 1986 to present (Some full text)
Search computing journals for research on subjects such as database design, software development, web commerce, LANs, WANs, Intranets, and the Internet.
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Coverage: 1988 (Some full text)
Covers literature on primary, secondary, higher education, special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.
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Coverage: 1971 to present (Some full text)
European business and financial information. Includes in-depth profiles of companies, business leaders and products, as well as information on specific economic and market conditions in countries and regions throughout Europe.
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Coverage: 1986 to present (Some full text)
Covers religious news and commentary, doctrines and philosophies, religious history and related archaeology, formal theological studies, and general interest topics from the perspectives of specific religions.
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Search journals on health subjects such as medical conditions, substance abuse, insurance, health policy, and more in this ProQuest Research Library module.
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Coverage: 1994 to present (Some full text)
Covers a wide range of topics from both the physical and life sciences, including chemical engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, physics, transportation, astronomy, biology, earth science, etc.
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Coverage: 1994 to present (Some full text)
Covers all areas of the social sciences, including social exclusion, globalisation, addiction, urban planning, minority group welfare.
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Coverage: 1995 to present (Some full text)
Search this database for comprehensive coverage of telecommunications technologies, companies, people, products, and market conditions worldwide.
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Coverage: 1985 to present (Full text)
Includes full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. Excludes advertisements and editorial board lists.
Coverage: 2000 to present (Some full text)
Grey literature in psychology, behavioural science and health written for professionals and disseminated outside peer-reviewed journals by government, research institutes, societies, corporations etc.
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Coverage: 1965 to present (Some full text)
This database covers topics such as emotional and behavioural characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
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Coverage: 1840 to present
Indexes and abstracts international literature in psychology and related disciplines such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work.
Coverage: 1950 to present (Some full text)
A service of the National Library of Medicine. Includes over 19 million citations for biomedical articles from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full-text articles and other related resources.
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The U.S. National Institutes of Health's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Most articles are available within a year of publication, however only certain categories of material may be included.
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Coverage: 1990 to present (Some full text)
Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
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Coverage: 1975 to present (Some full text)
Covers topics like world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political and moral philosophy, philosophy of language, and history of philosophy.
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A collaborative effort of volunteers in 69 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics, RePEc is a decentralised database of working papers, journal articles (full-text only available if UoW subscribes) and software components.
Coverage: 1967 to present (Index)
Includes items on music and various other fields as they relate to music, from journals, books, bibliographies, catalogues, conference proceedings, discographies, dissertations, ethnographic recordings, Festschriften, films, iconographies, and videos.
Legal decisions affecting New Zealand's environment. Available free between the hours of 7.00pm and 9.00pm to University of Waikato students. Please see Law Librarian or Law staff for userID and password.
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Primarily current editions of practical guides in Information Technology and management. Access to approximately 100 titles. Only three simultaneous logins are permitted. Title suggestions can be submitted at http://www.waikato.ac.nz/library/suggestion.shtml
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The Southern African Legal Information Institute provides free access to Southern and Eastern African legal information.
Coverage: 1999 to present (Full text)
SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. Select 'SAGE Content Available to Me' to access subscribed journals.
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Coverage: 1995 to present (Full text)
Access the full-text of over 1000 journals primarily in the Sciences, but including Business, Education, Linguistics, Management, Sociology, etc. Users may register and create their own account allowing use of personalisation and alert services.
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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.
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Bibliographic and pricing information for academic and popular serials and data from over 108,000 publishers worldwide, including email and internet addresses. The records indicate when a serial is an academic or scholarly publication and whether it is peer-reviewed.
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Coverage: 1979 to present (Index)
Coverage of current research focused on social work, human services and related areas including social welfare, social policy and community development. Abstracts and indexes over 1,300 publications.
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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: 1952 to present (Index)
Covers the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioural sciences. Provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800 serials publications.
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Australia & New Zealand's online reference guide to children's books, poetry, short stories and literary awards. Includes bibliographic details with annotations and subject headings for over 14000 picture books and children's and young adult novels.
Coverage: 1949 to present (Some full text)
Provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre, SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines.
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Coverage: 1996 to present (Full text)
Access to the full-text of over 1200 journals published by Springer (including Kluwer). Subjects covered include biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities and economics.
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Access to a range of New Zealand statistics prepared specially for Universities. Includes census, disability, vitals, migration and business demography data.
Coverage: 1980 to present (Full text)
A multidisciplinary database which contains primary documents, background and topical essays, biographies, topical analyses and current journal articles from all areas of study.
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Search a wide range of journals. Access to full-text is limited to journals to which the Library subscribes. Click on the IP authentication link to start.
Coverage: 1997 to present (Full text)
Contains tables giving information such as company and brand rankings, imports and exports, market share, consumption and production statistics, healthcare statistics, demographics etc.
A collection of titles covering a broad range of legal, computing and leisure topics (click on ebooks tab to browse available titles).
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Access to the full-text of over 1400 journals in all subjects published by Taylor & Francis. Previously known as Informaworld.
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Access all 76 issues of a bilingual quarterly published (1952-76) by the Maori Affairs Department which aimed to discuss all questions of interest to Maori. The index was compiled by The University of Waikato Library.
Choose from a number of databases including Index New Zealand (abstracts articles from selected NZ journals and newspapers) and the New Zealand National Union Catalogue (bibliographic records and NZ library holdings for items published worldwide).
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TechXtra searches 31 different collections relevant to engineering, mathematics and computing, including content from over 50 publishers. Find articles, websites, books, latest industry news, job announcements, ejournals, technical reports, theses.
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United States Federal legislative information free on the Internet.
Coverage: 1785-2006
The complete digital edition of the Times (London) can be searched and full images of either a specific article or a complete page retrieved. The entire newspaper has been captured, including all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photographs.
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Coverage: 1902-2005 (Full text)
The TLS Historical Archive is the improved and expanded new edition of the TLS Centenary Archive, and allows users to full-text search every page of every issue of the Times Literary Supplement from 1902 to 2005. Search over 300,000 reviews, letters, poems and articles for information about English literature and other humanities or social science subjects. Users can track the literary activity and critical opinion makers of the 20th century.
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A World Trade Organization (WTO) research product that searches across PDF files of official awards, decisions, and other WTO documents. Includes Article Citator, Jurisprudence Citators, Treaty Interpretation, Terms & Phrases, Jurisprudence Pending, DSB Minutes, Full Text Search, Selected Annotated Agreements and Negotiating History.
Coverage: 1984 to present (Some full text)
New York Times (indexed 1989-, Full-Text 1995-); USA Today (indexed 1989-); and the Wall Street Journal (indexed 1982-, Full-Text 1994-).
UN Statistical portal, combining 22 databases and 60 million records. Topics include agriculture, employment, education, energy, environment, health, human development, information and communication technology, population, refugees, trade and tourism.
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Contains bibliographic records and full-text of UNESCO documents, publications (full-text of out-of-print documents only) and journals; bibliographic records of the UNESCO Library's acquisitions.
Coverage: 1994 to present (Full text)
Government documents covering a broad range of topics. There are two main groups of documents: Command Papers (sometimes known as White or Green Papers) and House of Commons Papers (includes Annual Reports from Government bodies).
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Coverage: 1993 to present (Full text)
UN documentation including General Assembly, Security Council, Economic & Social Council, & Trusteeship Council resolutions (1946-). Excludes press releases, sales publications, UN Treaty Series & information brochures from the Dept of Public Information.
Coverage: 1946 to present (Full text)
Contains treaties and international agreements registered or filed with the Secretariat of the U.N. since 1946. Texts are in their authentic language(s), along with translations into English and French, as appropriate.
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A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialised reference sources in the areas of arts, biography, history, literature, medicine, science and social science.
Coverage: 1975 to present (Index)
Covers women's and gender history, including prostitution, witchcraft, housework, sexuality, birth control, infanticide, the family, gynaecology, and masculinity. Indexes 180 European, American, Canadian, Asian, Australian and New Zealand journals.
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Westlaw International is an online legal research service providing quick, easy access to West's vast collection of statutes, case law materials, public records and other legal resources, as well as current news articles and business information.
Coverage: 1997 to present (Full text)
Access to Wiley journals in the fields of: Business, Finance & Management; Chemistry; Computer Science; Earth Science; Education; Engineering; Humanities and Social Sciences; Law; Life and Medical Sciences; Mathematics and Statistics; Physics; Psychology.
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World Bank Data provides access to World Development Indicators (WDI), Global Development Finance (GDF), Africa Development Indicators (ADI) and Global Economic Monitor (GEM). See Data Catalogue for descriptions of individual data sets.
Contains the current constitution for every country, constitutional histories, texts on constitutional law, links to scholarly articles about constitutional development, and a bibliography of selected constitutional books. Browsable by country or resource. Part of HeinOnline.
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Extensive coverage of the 20th Century as well as the Ancient Mediterranean, Near East, Asia, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Middle East and Latin America. Materials included are full text journals, reference works and primary source documents.
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Coverage: 1964 to present (Index)
Provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare.
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World Who's Who brings together current and hard-to-find biographical information on more than 60,000 of the most gifted, famous and influential men and women in all fields.
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Access to records for over 1.2 billion items, including theses, books and articles from all parts of the world. There are links to full-text where this is available.
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World Legal Information Institute provides free access to worldwide law. Users can simultaneously search WORDLII, other participating LIIs and the Internet.




