A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Databases - P
| Info | Database title |
|---|---|
 | PACLII: Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute A searchable and browseable database of court decisions and, at some future date, legislation, from many South Pacific countries, made available by the University of the South Pacific and AUSTLII. |
 | Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online, 2nd edition See: New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics |
| 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. |
| Parliamentary Business For progress of bills, order papers, etc. |
| Parliamentary Papers Contains Parliamentary papers presented to the House & ordered to be published during this Parliament. |
| Parry & Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law Includes terminology and descriptive information on international law. With over 2,500 entries, this third edition includes increased coverage in areas of international law including diplomatic law, criminal law, human rights, and more. |
| Passport GMID: Global Market Information Database (Euromonitor) Euromonitor International's Global Market Information Database (GMID) is an online business information system providing business intelligence on industries, countries, and consumers. It offers integrated access to statistics, reports, insightful comment and business information sources. Coverage is global, more than 200 countries are researched. Users need to register using an "otago.ac.nz email" address. |
| Past Masters (InteLex) Definitive editions of the writings of key philosophers, including published and unpublished works, articles and essays, and correspondence. Our access includes: Aristotle's Complete Works, British Philosophy 1600-1900 (Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, Francis Bacon, Jeremy Bentham, Edmund Burke, Anne Conway, John Stuart Mill, David Ricardo, Henry Sidgwick, Adam Smith), the Continental Rationalists (Rene Descartes, Benedict de Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz), Søren Kierkegaard's Samlede Værkerand, Locke's Philosophical Works and Select Correspondence, and Yeat's Collected Letters. |
| PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database) PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. It has been developed to give access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. |
| PEN: Practice-based Evidence in Nutrition PEN is a full text database of information about dietetics, developed from key practice questions and evidence-based answers, with links to tools and resources consistent with the evidence. |
| Periodicals Archive Online Foundation Collection (ProQuest) The PAO Foundation Collection is an archive of 215 digitised academic journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Coverage is from first issue to the end of 2000, or final issue (whichever is first). |
| Periodicals Index Online: PIO (ProQuest) PIO is an international index to millions of articles published in over 6,000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. Currently it indexes over 20 million articles going as far back as 1665 and every article in each journal is indexed, from volume 1 issue 1 to recent times. Includes periodicals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages. |
| Perseus Digital Library An integrated collection of materials, textual and visual, on the Archaic and Classical Greek world. The collection contains diverse resources including primary (in the original language and in translation) and secondary texts, site plans, digital images, and maps. Art & Archaeology Artifact Browser documents vases, sculptures, coins, building, and gems. |
| Pharmaceutical News Index (ProQuest) Provides access to the latest information on medical technology, research, and legislative developments. The database contains bibliographic information and indexing for key U.S. and international pharmaceutical, healthcare, biotechnology, medical device, and cosmetic industry newsletters. |
| Pharmaceutical Sciences Encyclopedia From drug discovery to development to manufacturing, the Pharmaceutical Sciences Encyclopedia captures the state of the technology and the state of the science. Each article has been contributed by one or more leading experts in the field. |
 | Philip C. Jessup Library This library provides access the International Law Student Association's Journal of International and Comparative Law and Journal of International Law, and to the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition Compendium. |
| Philosopher's Index (OvidSP) The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language. |
| Philosophy and Religious Studies in Video (Alexander Street Press) The collection delivers hundreds of films documenting philosophical and religious thought and how it shapes human behavior today. |
| 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. |
| Pivot An international database containing links to research opportunities and information critical to scientific research across all disciplines. First-time users are required to register for a username and password using a computer on-campus. |
| Plant Science (ProQuest) A bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts of scientific literature on plant science. |
| Plantwise Knowledge Bank (CABI) Open-access information resource from CABI covering crop pests and diseases. |
 | Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975 Trial access until 17 June 2013. Popular Culture explores the dynamic period of social, political and cultural change between 1950 and 1975. The resource offers thousands of colour images of manuscript and rare printed material as well as photographs, ephemera and memorabilia. |
| Population Index Free primary reference tool to literature on the world's population, which presents an annotated bibliography of recent books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics. |
| Pre-CINAHL (EBSCOhost) A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to searchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing. |
| PreMedline (OvidSP) An in-process database for MEDLINE. |
| Presbyterian Church Archives of Aotearoa New Zealand Includes archives from: The General Assembly & Committees, Foreign Home & Māori Missions, Local & National Presbyterian Women's & Youth organizations, Parishes & Presbyteries in Otago & Southland, Knox College & Theological Hall, Synod of Otago & Southland, Otago Foundation Trust Board & the personal papers of Ministers and prominent Presbyterian Laymen & Women from throughout the Country. |
| PressDisplay A newspaper database providing access to over 1,000 newspapers from over 80 countries in 40 different languages. The newspapers are presented exactly as they are in print format and are available to read at the same time (often earlier) than the print versions. Note: Library subscription is for 2 simultaneous users, please use the Sign Out button when exiting. |
| Privacy Commissioner Selected case notes from 1994+, listed by year |
| Privacy Commissioner (NZLII) Selected decisions from 1996+. |
| Privy Council Judgments Fulltext of judgments, arranged by date, 1999+ |
| Privy Council Office Under Judicial Committee/ Judgments: full text of decisions from 1999. |
| Project DIANA Free Yale University database of notable human rights treaties and court decisions. |
| Project MUSE Full-text access to over 400 high quality, peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals from over 100 scholarly publishers. |
| ProQuest Agricultural Science Collection A database for researchers in agriculture, farming systems, food and human nutrition, forestry and plant sciences. The collection includes abstracts from AGRICOLA, deep-indexed tables and figures, and full-text journal titles such as Agricultural Research, Forest Products Journal, Journal of Animal Science, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation and Plant Physiology. |
| ProQuest Aquatic Science Collection A database for researchers in aquaculture, pollution, conservation, marine biotechnology, fisheries, oceanography, and policy and marine environments. The collection includes abstracts from Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA), deep-indexed tables and figures, and more than 300 full-text journal titles. |
| ProQuest Asian Business & Reference This database focuses on business and financial news from the eastern hemisphere. It covers Asian business and financial information from key international publications. |
| ProQuest Atmospheric Science Collection A database for researchers in meterorology, climatology and atmospheric sciences. The collection includes abstracts from Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA), deep-indexed tables and figures, and more than 125 full-text journal titles. |
| ProQuest Australia & New Zealand Newsstand Provides access to leading Australian and New Zealand newspapers. Combining content from Fairfax Australia and Fairfax New Zealand, News Limited, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and APP newswires, ANZ Newsstand provides the very latest local, regional and national news. |
| ProQuest Biological Science Collection The collection contains biological science related full-text articles, figures and tables within articles, and the bibliographic records from Biological Sciences database. Biological Sciences provides access to literature from serials, conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and patents. |
| ProQuest Biology Journals Provides access to articles on a wide range of biology topics. Subject coverage includes: Biological chemistry, Biophysics, Botany, Cytology and histology, Environmental studies, Microbiology, Microscopy and, Zoology. |
| ProQuest Business Provides access to ProQuest business databases: ABI/INFORM Complete; Accounting & Tax; Banking Information Source; CBCA Business; ProQuest Asian Business & Reference; ProQuest Career and Technical Education: Business; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I: Business; ProQuest European Business; and, ProQuest Research Library: Business |
| ProQuest Career and Technical Education A definitive source for vocational information and career search resources. The database includes nearly 600 titles, with more than 500 available in full-text for access to research on technical topics. |
| 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. |
| ProQuest Computing Provides comprehensive coverage of computer topics from scholarly journals, trade publications and consumer titles. The database includes around 450 titles, with over 350 available in full-text. |
| ProQuest Criminal Justice A database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals. The database provides research support for those interested in criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. |
| ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I A collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, from 1743 to the present day. Where available, the database includes a 24-page preview. Dissertations published since July 1980 include a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. |
| ProQuest Earth Science Collection Provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. The database contains over 3 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. Includes access to GeoRef abstract database. |
| ProQuest Education Journals Provides access to educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full-text. The coverage spans the literature on primary, secondary and higher education as well as special education, home schooling and adult education. |
| ProQuest Environmental Science Collection A database for researchers in environment, energy, ecology, pollution and all aspects of environmental sciences. The collection includes abstracts from ProQuest Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management, deep-indexed tables and figures, and full-text journal titles, government reports and environmental impact statements. |
| ProQuest European Business Contains the latest European business and financial information. Includes resources such as The Economist, Fortune and European Business Journal. |
| ProQuest Family Health Covers a large range of subjects from sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry. It includes important general medical journals such as The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine as well as a strong selection of consumer and news magazines. |
| ProQuest Health & Medical Complete Combines the clinical research titles available in ProQuest Medical Library with hundreds of additional consumer and health administration titles. The journals cover all major clinical and healthcare disciplines, including medical sciences, immunology, pharmacy and pharmacology, nursing, physical fitness and hygiene, surgery, and others. |
| ProQuest Health Module Comprehensive journal coverage of clinical and biomedical topics, consumer health, health administration and more. |
| ProQuest Illustrata: Natural Sciences This database includes natural science content from searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical literature by employing “deep indexing”. |
| ProQuest Military Collection Covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more. |
| ProQuest Natural Science Collection This collection provides discipline-specific coverage spanning thousands of publications, many in full-text. ProQuest Deep Indexing is included, helping researchers find critical information hidden in tables, maps and other figures. |
| ProQuest News & Newspapers Search and access these collections: ProQuest Newsstand, Canadian Newsstand Complete, Australia & New Zealand Newsstand, and historical content for the Guardian, the Observer, the Irish Times, the Weekly Irish Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Scotsman, and the Wall Street Journal. |
| ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source Provides users with healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and more. The database provides abstracting and indexing for more than 850 titles, with over 715 titles in full-text, plus more than 12,000 full-text dissertations. |
| ProQuest Psychology Journals Encompasses a wide range of topics from leading psychology and psychosomatic publications. In addition to clinical and social psychology, it also provides coverage of related disciplines including genetics, psychology of business and economics, communication, criminology, addiction, neurology, social welfare, and more. |
| ProQuest Religion Contains primarily full-text, international periodicals for diverse religious and spiritual studies, covering formal theological studies of major religions, as well as the most recent trends and scholarly thought. Included are titles from religious publishing bodies and nondenominational organisations. |
| ProQuest Research Library Provides access to full-text periodicals from a broad general reference database. Search from a diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 academic disciplines. |
| ProQuest Science Journals Supports academic research in both the applied and general sciences with access to over 1,145 titles - with more than 965 available in full-text. In full-text format, researchers have access to all the charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements. |
| ProQuest Social Science Journals A definitive resource for those who need access to a variety of scientific journals. Subject coverage includes: Anthropology, Communication science, Demography, Economics, Human services, Political science, Policy studies, Psychology, and Sociology. |
| ProQuest Telecommunications A database for research on the telecommunications industry and its technology. Subject coverage includes: Telecommunications, computer applications, data communication, data transmission systems, electronic data processing, information science, information theory, radio, television, and wireless communications. |
| Protein Science Encyclopedia A comprehensive knowledge source for protein scientists covering: structure of proteins; function of proteins; analytical methods of proteins; engineering of proteins; and, medical aspects of proteins. |
| PsycARTICLES (OvidSP) PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles in psychology and the behavioural sciences. Use Journals@Ovid link. |
| PsycBOOKS (OvidSP) PsycBOOKS is a full-text database that provides electronic access to thousands of scholarly and professional titles published by American Psychological Association, including recent titles in psychological and behavioural science, plus a substantial backfile of classic and historic works. |
| PsycCRITIQUES (OvidSP) A database containing full-text reviews of books, popular films, videos, and software relevant to psychology. |
| PsycEXTRA (OvidSP) A gray literature database relating to psychology, behavioral sciences, and health. Full-text is available for the majority of records. Coverage consists primarily of material written for professionals but disseminated outside of peer-reviewed journals. Publications include technical and government reports, conference papers, newsletters, magazines, videos, press releases, and consumer brochures. |
| Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Collection (EBSCOhost) A comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. Offers full text coverage for nearly 600 journals. |
| Psychology Collection This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops - and diminishes - over time. Access to 200 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals. |
| Psychology Video Online (Alexander Street Press) The collection provides key films in the discipline of Psychology: documentaries, interviews, case studies, and psychological experiments. Topics covered include addiction, group psychology, feminist psychology, family psychology, children & adolescent psychology, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. |
| PsycINFO (OvidSP) Index to professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. |
| Publications New Zealand A record of New Zealand publications listed in the National Bibliography, from books to films to maps. Use it to get information about published items with a strong New Zealand connection, and see which libraries have these publications. |
| PubMed An online citation database for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. |
