| Info | Database title |
|---|---|
 | Dictionary of New Zealand Biography Contains biographies of people who have 'made their mark' on New Zealand. It does not include people who are alive. |
| Index New Zealand New Zealand database for general interest material, social research, current affairs, and the arts and humanities. Updated daily, INNZ provides citation access to articles published in New Zealand and South Pacific newspapers and journals from 1987 to the present. |
 | Iwidex: index of tribal history, tikanga and whakapapa An index of tribal history, tikanga and whakapapa held in the Heritage and Research Collections of Auckland City Libraries. |
| Journal of the Polynesian Society The early issues of the Journal contain a rich repository of indigenous texts and traditions contributed by Pacific peoples. |
| Maori Land Court Minute Books Index (Knowledge Basket) This index provides 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. |
| National Library of New Zealand Discovery Search Simultaneously searches the National Library Catalogue, TAPUHI, Timeframes, Publications NZ, Index NZ, Te Puna Web Directory, Matapihi and findNZarticles. Extended sources option also available. |
| New Zealand Index An index of key New Zealand databases including: Index Auckland, New Zealand Card Index, Bibliography of Published NZ Family Histories, NZ Herald Classified Personals, Index New Zealand, INZART Index, Manukau's Journey, Newzindex, Newspaper Index, NZ Science, and NZ Woman's Weekly Index. |
| 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. |
Māori Studies - additional resources
| Info | Database title |
|---|---|
 | Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre (EBSCOhost) Combines Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers & newswires, reference books, and company information to create a collection of regional full text content available to schools, public libraries, and academic institutions. |
| Blue Books: statistical information 1840-1855 Statistical information from New Zealand’s early Colonial period (1840-1855). |
| British Politics and Society (NCCO) From Nineteenth Century Collections Online, British Politics and Society includes tens of thousands of primary sources related to the political climate in Great Britain during the 19th century. Topics covered include British domestic and foreign policy, the working class, trade unions, Chartism, utopian socialism, public protest, radical movements, the cartographic record, political reform, education, family relationships, religion, and leisure. Consisting of more than 1.7 million pages, collections are from a variety of institutions, including the British Library, Oxford University and The National Archives, Kew. |
| eTV Provides real-time resources through recorded TV programmes, live streams and on demand videos. First-time users must register: select University of Otago, use University staff or student email address (otago.ac.nz) only, username/password will be sent to your email. Thereafter, login requires that username/password. Note: It is recommended that eTV is accessed using Firefox. |
| Factiva Access to a wide range of global and NZ news and business information content from more than 35,000 sources, from 200 countries in 26 languages. |
| findNZarticles Provides access to New Zealand content, including material by or about New Zealanders, from a range of New Zealand newspapers and journals. |
| Fletchers Index Online Listing of Māori names referred to in books and journals, including the names of boundaries, Māori individuals, canoes, trees, landmarks and geographical locations. |
| Forster Collection - Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK The Forsters set sail from Plymouth for the South Pacific on 13 July 1772 in Cook's ship the Resolution. The items they collected on their 3 year voyage are searchable on this database. |
| Hakena: Hocken Library Archives and Manuscripts Descriptions of the unpublished Manuscripts and Pictures from the Hocken Collections' Archives and Manuscripts Collections. |
| Hawaii Pacific Journal Index Indexed articles from the journals of the University of Hawaii Manoa. 50+ Hawaiian & Pacific journals from Vol 1 of each title. |
| Historical Abstracts (EBSCOhost) Historical coverage of the world from 1450+ (excluding US & Canada). Leading bibliography for historical study in the world with 2,000+ international journals. |
| IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences The IBSS database includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It focuses on anthropology, economics, politics and sociology with broad coverage of international material from 100 countries and in 60 languages. |
| Informit Indigenous Collection This database offers both topical and historical issues within Indigenous studies. It encompasses anthropology, community development, cultural studies, economics, education, health, history, human geography, law and land rights, literature, politics and policy making, (post)colonial studies, psychology, race studies, sociology and visual and performing arts. |
| Informit New Zealand Collection Access to full text New Zealand content relating to arts, business, education, environment and conservation, family studies, sociology, Indigenous and Maori peoples, law and music. |
| INZART (Index to New Zealand Art) (New Zealand Index) An index to articles which provide information on New Zealand artists, art galleries and museums, exhibitions and art events. Details of images and illustrations are also included. INZART indexes from New Zealand and international serials held predominantly in the University of Auckland Fine Arts Library. Art-related articles published in New Zealand newspapers are also selectively indexed. |
| Maori Land Court Includes free database of selected decisions from 1958 on. See also the Māori Land Court Judgments database and the MLC Minute Book Index, 1865-1910, database at the Law or Hocken Libraries. Hocken has copies of the Minute Books. |
| Maori Land Information Base Provides ownership information about Māori land. Produced by Te Puni Kokiri. |
| Maori Land Legislation Database (Works best in Internet Explorer) Free summaries of legislation, 1840-1995, plus commentary etc.(University of Auckland) |
| Matapihi Searchable database of over 175,000 pictures, objects, sounds, movies, and texts from New Zealand’s archives, galleries, libraries and museums. |
| New Zealand Electronic Text Centre Free online full-text archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials |
| Newztext Plus (Knowledge Basket) An archive of the full text of many of New Zealand's key news and business publications. |
| Niupepa: Maori newspapers A collection of historic newspapers published primarily for a Māori audience between 1842 and 1932. The newspapers can be searched (full text), browsed (by series) or accessed by date. |
| Papers Past Papers Past contains more than two million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The collection covers the years 1839 to 1945 and includes 77 publications from all regions of New Zealand. Browse by region, title, or date. Some titles are searchable. |
| Picture Australia Search for people, places and events in the collections of libraries, museums, galleries, archives, universities and other cultural agencies, in Australia and abroad. Over 400 images of Māori. |
| Project MUSE Full-text access to over 400 high quality, peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals from over 100 scholarly publishers. |
| ProQuest Central A leading electronic database providing indexing/abstracting and full-text access to scholarly and general interest publications. It combines information from a number of leading online databases with subjects covering: business, law, education, computing, science, technology, engineering, arts, medicine, and religion. |
| Taonga (Knowledge Basket) A full text collection of rare publications, thesis and bibliography on Maori history and lore. |
| Tapuhi Descriptions of the unpublished Manuscripts and Pictures Collections of New Zealand and Pacific material in the Alexander Turnbull Library. |
| Te Aka Maori-English, English-Maori Dictionary and Index The online version of Te Aka Māori-English, English-Māori Dictionary and Index. It also contains encyclopaedic entries and Māori names for institutions, country names, place names and other proper names. |
| Te Ao Hou: The New World This website lets you search and browse all 76 issues of the magazine Te Ao Hou The New World (which features bilingual content). |
| Te Ara - Encyclopedia of New Zealand Online and updated version of the Encyclopedia of New Zealand first published in 1966. |
| Te Kete Ipurangi (TKI) - The Online Learning Centre A bilingual portal and web community which provides educational material for New Zealand teachers, school managers, and the wider education community. |
| Te Papa Picture Library Search a small selection of Te Papa's 800,000 rare and beautiful New Zealand images |
| Timeframes Database of over 20,000 heritage images from the Alexander Turnbull Library, at the National Library of New Zealand. |
| Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand Includes: the Auckland Institute, the Wellington Philosophical Society and the Otago Institute. |
| University of Otago Digital Collections Pictures and photographs from university collections. Explore images of pictures and photographs from the Hocken Pictorial Collections and Special Collections. |
| Waitangi Tribunal Reports Free, searchable, access to most reports. |
