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 | e-Anatomy Atlas of human anatomy: cross-sectional anatomy, gross anatomy, radiological anatomy. Provides medical imaging and pictures of head and neck, thorax abdomen and pelvis, limbs, and spine. |
 | Early New Zealand Books Provides the keyword-searchable text of significant books published about New Zealand in the nineteenth century. Illustrations and maps in the books have also been digitised. |
 | EBL Ebook Library Offers content across all subject areas from major academic publishers worldwide. Access to non-owned content can be requested online. ebooks can be read online or downloaded for offline access for up to 7 days using Adobe Digital Editions. |
| EBM Reviews (Evidence Based Medicine Reviews) (OvidSP) A comprehensive database of key evidence-based medicine sources. Also see entries for Cochrane Library (via Wiley) and ACP Journal Club. |
| eBooks on EBSCOhost Provides access to ebooks across all subjects from major academic publishers. Full text access available to ebooks owned by the University of Otago. First-time users need to create a free EBSCOhost account while logged on from within campus before accessing some EBSCOhost ebooks from off-campus (click on the Sign In link above the University of Otago logo at the top right corner of the screen, then “Create a new Account”). |
| Ebrary Multi-disciplinary ebooks from 500+ academic publishers. |
| ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online Full text of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, plus important works from the Americas, published between 1701 and 1800. |
| Econlit (EBSCOhost) EconLit indexes the international literature in the field of economics. |
| Editions and adaptations of Shakespeare Multiple versions of Shakespeare's major works. |
| Education in Video (Alexander Street Press) An online collection of streaming video for training and developing teachers. When complete, it will contain 1,000+ video titles totalling 750 hours of teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in classrooms, pre-school through secondary. Education in Video covers hundreds of special topics and themes representing many different teaching and learning conditions. Many of the videos include supplementary materials which may be downloaded. |
| Education Research Complete (EBSCOhost) An online resource for education research. 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. |
| Education Research Theses Comprehensive source of the unique research found in doctoral and masters research theses accepted by Australian Universities in the field of education. It also includes some overseas theses on Australian education topics. Nearly 2,500 of these are available online. |
| eDuke Scholarly Collection: Expanded (Duke University Press) Over 30 humanities and social science journals published by Duke University Press. |
| EEBO (Early English Books Online) 100,000+ texts printed in English before 1700. Covers STCs by Pollard and Redgrave 1475-1640 and Wing 1641-1700 |
| Eighteenth Century Journals Portal (Adam Matthew) Collections of rare journals printed between 1693 and 1835 illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. They offer coverage of the important issues of the period, and are invaluable to the study of all aspects of the eighteenth century, including crime, sport, advertising, the theatre; fashion; politics, revolution; agriculture; social issues and society life. |
| Electronic Law Journals Free University of Toronto database identifying law journals available on the Web and in subscription databases such as Lexis and Westlaw (but not Hein Online). |
| Elsevier's Interactive Anatomy atlas An anatomical reference atlas of cross-sectional photographs. The discs in the series facilitate reference and (post-graduate) training in normal anatomy. |
| EMBASE: Excerpta Medica (OvidSP) A major biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals. |
| Emerald The Emerald Management Extra (EMX) collection includes more than 200 full-text, peer-reviewed, commerce journals. Also included is access to the Emerald Backfiles - the full digitized archive of Emerald journal titles in business, management, library and information services, materials sciences and engineering. |
| Empire Online This database is a collection of original documents relating to Empire Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world. |
| Employment Cases (Brookers) A comprehensive database of more than 25,000 reported and unreported case records, sourced from a variety of New Zealand Courts and Tribunals including decisions from the following specialist Courts and Tribunals: Arbitration Court; Employment Court; Employment Tribunal; Employment Relations Authority; and the Labour Court. This database includes the Employment Reports of New Zealand series, and also combines the former Employment Reports of New Zealand, Employment Headnotes of New Zealand, and Unreported Employment Cases databases into one database. |
| Employment Reports of New Zealand (Brookers) See: Employment Cases (via Brookers) |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Contains the text of the 32-volume print edition plus thousands of additional articles and images, natural-language searching, and A-Z browsing. Britannica Online is continually updated to provide the most current information possible. |
| Encyclopaedia Judaica Provides an overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures. |
| Encyclopaedia of Islam (Brill) A guide to all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world – religious and historical, but also cultural, social, political, and artistic. Access is to 2nd and 3rd editions on the Encyclopaedia. |
| Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an (Brill) Encyclopaedic dictionary of qur'ānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur'ānic studies. Alphabetically-arranged articles about the contents of the Qur'ān. |
| Encyclopedia Britannica Online See: Encyclopaedia Britannica Online |
| Encyclopedia of Adolescence This work features signed and peer-reviewed entries, including content on normative development, individual differences, cultural differences, social and emotional development, education, work, and psychopathlogy as they apply to adolescents. |
| Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior Covers topics such as communication, learning, sexual selection, navigation, and the history of the field, and also emerging topics in cognition, animal welfare, conservation, and applications of animal behavior. |
| Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics (Second Edition) This reference work includes detailed investigations of historical and theoretical material. It includes a number of articles on ethical and philosophical approaches, historical and contemporary, religious and secular. |
| Encyclopedia of Applied Plant Sciences A multi-faceted reference work, the Encyclopedia of Applied Plant Sciences addresses the core knowledge, theories, and techniques employed by plant scientists, while also concentrating on applications of these in research and in industry. |
| Encyclopedia of Archaeology Encompasses all aspects of archaeology, including the nature and diversity of archaeology as a scientific discipline, the practice of archaeology, archaeology in the everyday world, and the future of the discipline. |
| Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences A wide-ranging encyclopedia covering all major aspects of atmospheric science and related subjects such as oceanography and hydrology. |
| Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience Covers important research in all areas of behavioral neuroscience. Topics range from neuroethology and learning and memory, to behavioral disorders and psychiatric diseases. |
| Encyclopedia of Biodiversity Major themes of the work include the evolution of biodiversity, systems for classifying and defining biodiversity, ecological patterns and theories of biodiversity, and an assessment of contemporary patterns and trends in biodiversity. |
| Encyclopedia of Creativity (Second Edition) Coverage encompasses the definition of creativity, the development and expression of creativity across the lifespan, the environmental conditions that encourage or discourage creativity, creativity within specific disciplines like music, dance, film, art, literature, etc., the relationship of creativity and mental health, intelligence, and learning styles, and the process of being creative. |
| Encyclopedia of Dairy Sciences (Second Edition) Dairy Science includes the study of milk and milk-derived food products, examining the biological, chemical, physical, and microbiological aspects of milk itself as well as the technological (processing) aspects of the transformation of milk into its various consumer products. |
| Encyclopedia of Ecology Includes over 500 entries that cover a range of topics, including: behavioral ecology; ecological processes; ecological modelling; ecological engineering; ecological indicators; ecological informatics; ecosystems; ecotoxicology; evolutionary ecology; general ecology; global ecology; human ecology; and, system ecology. |
| Encyclopedia of Endocrine Diseases A collection of nearly 500 focused articles on the many conditions that affect the endocrine system, such as diabetes, hypertension, and osteoporosis. Each type of endocrine disorder has a set of articles selected and edited by a leading authority. |
| Encyclopedia of Energy 380 overview articles in 20 subject areas. |
| Encyclopedia of Environmental Health A collection of critical reviews which examine the ways for conceptualizing, identifying, organizing, and addressing key environmental health problems at the local, regional, and global scales. |
| Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology This encyclopedia covers the diversity of fish physiology and provides entry level information for students and summary overviews for researchers. Organised into four themes, articles cover Functional, Thematic, and Phylogenetic Physiology, and Fish Genomics. |
| Encyclopedia of Food Sciences and Nutrition 2003 version of the Encyclopaedia of Food Science, Food Technology and Nutrition. |
| Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine Comprehensively covers forensic and legal medicine (including related specialities and scientific, technical and legal issues). The work is edited and written by experienced professionals with medical, legal or dual training – and who are internationally renowned for their experience or expertise within their areas of specialty. |
| Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences Provide coverage of the core theories, methods, techniques, and applications employed by forensic scientists. |
| Encyclopedia of Genetics Includes over 1700 entries covering the major topics of genetics. Also included are articles on the history of the field as well as the impact of the applications of genetics to medicine and agriculture. |
| Encyclopedia of Geology This five-volume reference work covers all aspects of geology including earth history, earth materials, surface processes, regional geology, economic geology, engineering geology, petroleum geology, geochemical and mineral exploration, and the history of geology. |
| Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration A complete exploration of the prominent themes, events, and theoretical underpinnings of the movements of human populations from prehistory to the present day. |
| Encyclopedia of Grain Science An in-depth and authoritative reference covering all areas of grain science. Coverage includes everything from the genetics of grains to the commercial, economic and social aspects of this important food source. Also covered are the biology and chemistry of grains, the applied aspects of grain production and the processing of grains into various food and beverage products. |
| Encyclopedia of Human Behavior (Second Edition) A comprehensive reference source on human action and reaction, and the thoughts, feelings, and physiological functions behind those actions. Articles probe both enduring and exciting new topics in physiological psychology, perception, personality, abnormal and clinical psychology, cognition and learning, social psychology, developmental psychology, language, and applied contexts. |
| Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition Provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of human nutrition, as well as information on clinical applications. |
| Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences Comprising approximately 200 articles, the Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences provides detailed coverage of the subject. Organized into 17 themed parts, it offers scientifically rigorous information on all key aspects of the subject, from sub-catchment to the global scale. |
| Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development Provides a comprehensive entry point into the existing literature on child development from the fields of psychology, genetics, neuroscience, and sociology. |
| Encyclopedia of Inland Waters A comprehensive summary of up-to-date and accurate information on the Earth's inland waters. |
| Encyclopedia of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry (EIBC) EIBC is a merger of two major references: The Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry and the Handbook of Metalloproteins. It reviews the latest thinking and developments as well as providing in-depth coverage of core concepts in the field. |
| Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics Online edition includes articles, supplementary audio, video and text files, glossary definitions, references, a list of commonly used abbreviations, a list of languages of the world, biographical entries and, language maps. |
| Encyclopedia of Life Sciences A comprehensive coverage of the life sciences – from structural biology to ecology. ELS contains over 4,800 specially commissioned articles explaining key concepts in the life sciences. |
| Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology Includes 1,800 articles that cover all of materials science and technology, focussing on the following areas: functional phenomena; structural phenomena; fundamental core theory; structural materials; polymers and materials chemistry; and, functional materials. |
| Encyclopedia of Meat Sciences The Encyclopedia of Meat Sciences covers all important aspects of meat science from stable to table, including animal breeding, physiology and slaughter, meat preparation, packaging, welfare, and food safety, to name a few. |
| Encyclopedia of Microbiology (Third Edition) Contains chapters on Applied Microbiology: Agro/Food, Applied Microbiology: Industrial, Archaea, Bacteria, Cell Structure Chemical Composition, Environmental Microbiology and Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, Fungi, Genetics, Genomics, History and Culture, (and Biographies), Mutualism and Commensalism, Pathogenesis, Physiology, Protists, Public Issues, Techniques, and Viruses. |
| Encyclopedia of Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine Covering everything from Alzheimer´s Disease to Zebrafish Genome, the encyclopedia covers major disciplines in molecular cell biology and molecular medicine. |
| Encyclopedia of Movement Disorders Encompasses a wide variety of topics in neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry and pharmacology. Includes 300+ focused entries, including sections on different disease states, pathophysiology, epidemiology, genetics, clinical presentation, diagnostic tools, as well as discussions on relevant basic science topics. |
| Encyclopedia of Neuroscience Explores a wide variety of topics in neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry and other related areas of neuroscience. Each article is written by an expert in that specific domain and peer reviewed by the advisory board before acceptance into the encyclopedia. |
| Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences First edition. Includes contributions from leading scientists on the physical processes that drive the oceans and the chemical, biological, and geological disciplines. |
| Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences Second edition. Includes contributions from leading scientists on the physical processes that drive the oceans and the chemical, biological, and geological disciplines. |
| Encyclopedia of Political Science Traces the evolution of political theories, concepts, research frameworks, and political practices from across the world. It examines the interplay of political ideas and processes to convey the vitality and excitement of politics in practice. |
| Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology This encyclopedia presents over 500 articles addressing all areas of polymer science including: polymers, plastics, fibers, biomaterials, elastomers, and polymerization processes. |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music This encyclopedia's 30,000 entries cover all genres and periods of popular music from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music. |
| Encyclopedia of Social Measurement The Encyclopedia of Social Measurement captures the data, techniques, theories, designs, applications, histories, and implications of assigning numerical values to social phenomena. |
| Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectrometry (Second Edition) Covers theory, methods, and applications in the field of spectroscopy and spectrometry. |
| Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Science A comprehensive reference for behavioural science research and development. It provides coverage of current statistical methods ranging through confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modelling, random effect/multilevel modelling, generalised linear models, computationally intensive methods such as the bootstrap, and many more. |
| Encyclopedia of the Eye A comprehensive reference for the eye, its support structures, diseases, and treatments. It includes information on all tissues important for vision, including the retina, cornea and lens, as well as the physiological and pathophysiologic processes that affect all eye tissues. |
| Encyclopedia of the Human Brain This four-volume encyclopedia contains over 200 peer reviewed articles on the human brain with a focus on anatomy, physiology, neuropsychology, clinical neurology, neuropharmacology, evolutionary biology, genetics, and behavioral science. |
| Encyclopedia of Toxicology A comprehensive survey of toxicology. Includes entries devoted to key concepts and specific chemicals as well as international organizations and well-known toxic-related incidents. |
| Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict Provides information about antagonism and reconciliation in all contexts of public and personal life and is a reference resource for peace and conflict resolution studies. The Encyclopedia covers topics such as: arms control, peace movements, child abuse, folklore, terrorism and political assassinations. |
| Encyclopedia of Virology Coverage of biological, molecular, and medical topics concerning viruses in animals, plants, bacteria and insects. |
| English Reports Searchable facsimile of the standard reprint source of English caselaw, 1220-1865, through HeinOnline. |
| English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) This database records holdings of books, serials, pamphlets and other ephemeral material printed in English-speaking countries from 1473 to 1800, based on the collections of over 1,600 institutions world-wide, including New Zealand. |
| English-Japanese dictionary Provides translations from English to Japanese including colloquial and regional expressions and technical or field-specific vocabulary. Special features include search filters, synonyms, pronunciation, and sample sentences. |
| Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive When complete in 2013, the database will include entire archival runs of more than 25 key consumer and trade magazines covering the whole of the 20th century. The digitised seachable backfiles of US and UK magazines cover film, television, popular music, radio and theatre from the first issue to 2000. Titles will include Variety (1905-2000), Billboard (1894-2000), Boxoffice (1920-2000), Broadcasting (1931-2000), The Stage (1880-2000), Melody Maker (1926-2000). |
| ENTRI: Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators Project Free database of fulltext environmental treaties and national resource indicators from CIESIN (Center for International Earth Science Information Network). |
| ENVIROnetBASE Environmental Resources Online (CRCnetBASE) An online library of more than 490 environmental reference works and handbooks. Coverage ranges from ecological risk assessment and environmental toxicology to GIS, remote sensing, and industrial hygiene. |
| Environmental cases (Brookers) A comprehensive database of more than 11,000 reported and unreported case records, sourced from a variety of New Zealand Courts and Tribunals. |
| Environmental Impact Statements (ProQuest) Provides detailed abstracts and indexing of environmental impact statements issued by the U.S. federal government. EIS extracts the key issues from complex government-released environmental impact statements, converting the documents into concise, readable abstracts. |
| Environmental Studies and Policy Collection Indexing and abstracting for over 700 titles (180+ in full-text) in the field of environmental studies. Includes perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests. |
| ERIC (ProQuest) A database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. |
| ERIC Digests Index Page Search the entire ERIC Digests database from the index page. Contains short reports (1,000 - 1,500 words) on topics of prime current interest in education. |
| ERIC Educational Resources Information Center The world's largest source of education information, with more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice from 1966. Over 100,000 ERIC documents from 1993 are available free in fulltext. |
| Ethnic Studies Video Online (Alexander Street Press) A collection of films documenting the struggles and triumphs of underrepresented, indigenous, and immigrant communities. Covering Native American Studies, Chicano Studies, African American Studies, and examinations of other racially marginalized communities, the films present issues of social justice, racial and socioeconomic inequalities, and the groups’ contributions to history, culture, and society. |
| Ethnographic Video Online (Alexander Street Press) A visual encyclopedia of human behaviour and culture, online in streaming video. Contains classic and contemporary documentaries, previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field, and select feature films. Includes footage from every continent and hundreds of unique cultures. |
| EThOS: Electronic Theses Online Service An open access repository for UK doctoral theses in electronic form. The database can be searched without logging in or registering. Users are required to register when ordering documents. |
| 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. |
| EUR-LEX The key portal for European Union law, including consolidated legislation |
| Europa World Plus Economic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of 250+ countries and global regions. Europa World Plus brings the renowned The Europa World Year Book and the nine Europa Regional Surveys of the World to the Web as a dynamic online database. |
| European Court of Human Rights A free database of fulltext decisions of the European Court of Human Rights and the former European Commission of Human Rights), 1960 on. Use of the Help screens is advisable for successful searching. |
| European Court of Justice Free database of fulltext decisions from 1954 to date, including those of the Court of First Instance. |
| European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection (NCCO) From Nineteenth Century Collections Online, The Corvey Collection includes the full text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles from Castle Corvey in Germany. This is one of the most important collections of Romantic era writing - including fiction, short prose, dramatic works, poetry and more. Topics covered include Romantic literary genres; mutual influences of British, French and German Romanticism; literary culture; women writers of the period; the canon and Romantic aesthetics. |
| European Patent Office Provides access to Decisions of the Administrative Council and the Official Journal, from 1997, as well as searchable fulltext Decisions of the Boards of Appeal and free access to a search engine for identifying European patent documents from the bibliographic data attached to them. |
| European Patent Office Under "Official Communications" includes Decisions of the Administrative Council and the Official Journal, from 1997. The latter, which includes Decisions of the Boards of Appeal, is browseable, by date, or can be searched, but only after downloading the files and the reader/search engine. |
| European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 A bibliographic database for European works that relate to the Americas. The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. |
| Europeana Europeana is a single access point to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe. It is a source of information coming from European cultural and scientific institutions. |
| EventStream This resource is available through Department of Accountancy and Finance. Please contact the department for access information. EventStream is a SAS® for Windows application that helps researchers use the Thomson Reuters Datastream database. EventStream provides the user with a simple yet flexible and powerful way to download equity security returns data, with corresponding Datastream Global Total Market index returns, prepare them for Eventus, and write the Eventus statements to analyze the data. |
| Eventus This resource is available through Department of Accountancy and Finance. Please contact the department for access information. Eventus provides event-orientated data retrieval and performs event study estimation and testing using the CRSP stock database. |
| Explorations in Learning and Instruction: The Theory into Practice Database Contains brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction. These theories can also be accessed by learning domains and concepts. |
| Expresso Portuguese newspaper. For access click in "Acesso à edição para assinantes actuais". Contact ask.library@otago.ac.nz for username and password. |
