A multidisciplinary source of scholarly, reference and general material in the fields of physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, and the arts. Contains material published between 1980 and the present.

A multidisciplinary source of scholarly and reference material, with access to scholarly texts published prior to 1975.

Contains over 1000 scripts together with detailed information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. In addition, the collection includes facsimile images for more than 500 of these screenplays. The majority have never been published before.

Provides authoritative information on creative and critical Australian literature works relating to more than 94,000 Australian authors and literary organisations.

Information with an Australasian focus from Australian and New Zealand magazines, newspapers and newswires, reference books, and company information.

Comprises of 50,000 titles , including all aspects of History, Language and Literature, Philosophy and Theology, Art History, Archaeology, and so forth in the Western, Byzantine and Islamic worlds.

Biographical information on more than one million people throughout history and around the world. It combines biographies from 70 Gale Group publications, the complete Marquis Who's who, Merriam-Webster's collegiate and biographical dictionaries, and full-text articles from over 250 periodicals.

A cross-disciplinary collection of newspaper, magazine and academic articles published in the UK and other English speaking countries from 1962 to the present.

A historical archive of British publications from 1700 to 1930, covering popular, scientific and arts related information. Personal documents, epherema, literature and other material of historical interest.

19th century research, providing integrated access to finding aids for books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers and archives. currently containing over 20 million bibliographic records for a full range of 19th century source material.

A collection of over 270 volumes published since 1960 covering over 15 different academic subjects. The volumes are grouped into topics, enabling searching through an array of historical subject areas.

A searchable multi-disciplinary collection of articles from academic journals published by Cambridge University Press.

A historical archive of primary source documents, biographical information, and essays relating to gender, specifically to the role of women in the English speaking world: 1450-1910.

Over 3,000 biographies of notable New Zealanders. Note that it does not include people who are alive.

Draws upon at least one copy of every surviving Old English text. Use this dictionary to find examples of usage of a particular word.

Comprises virtually every work printed in English from 1473 to 1700.

EBL offers a wide selection of ebooks in all subject areas. All of the titles can be read online. For each title you have the following permissions : Print = up to 20% of text Copy/Paste = up to 5% of text. Use the toolbar which shows graphically how much printing and copying you have done so you can see when you are reaching the end of your limits. Then you will receive a pop up window when you have used all your permissions. If you have Adobe Digital Editions installed on your personal or staff computer you can also download to read offline for a limited period.

An online collection of electronic books covering a wide variety of subject matter published in the last ten years. Use Internet Explorer to view.

Contains eleven editions of Shakespeare's plays and poems, as well as major adaptations, sequels, and related works.

A collection of over 180,000 books published in the 18th century, covering a wide range of subject areas including history, literature, religion, art, science, and law.

Contains a selection of English 17th and 18th century journals and newspapers, covering a wide range of social, political, and literary topics.

A collection of  over 60,000 images of original manuscripts and printed material arranged into five thematic sections containing essays by leading scholars. The focus of the collection is on history, sociology, English literature and art history.

A multidisciplinary online resource with a focus on scholarly publications, although more general works from newspapers, trade publications and magazines are also accessible. Multimedia resources feature amongst the print publications.

A cross-discipline collection of over 7,000 scholarly journals, trade and consumer publications and news sources. The collection has a business and industry focus.

A tool that enables browsing of portions of online books. Academic material in a wide range of fields features strongly amongst more popular works. Works still within copyright cannot be fully accessed.

A search engine for scholarly literature, legal documents, and patents. If you access Google Scholar through this link you will be shown links to full-text content where it is available through the Library's online resources.

Humanities articles and data from more than 2,200 journals and 2.71 million records. Contains unique journals not found in other databases. Includes books.

Indexes articles from about 1000 publications on and about New Zealand and the South Pacific. New Zealand material covered includes popular, professional, and trade journals, scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, and New Zealand newspapers.

Access to the full list of Informit resources, covering the areas of agriculture, arts, Asian, business, education, engineering, health, history, indigenous, law, media, reference, sciences, social sciences, and technology. Australian material predominates.

Interdisciplinary list of sources on the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 400-1500.

A multidisciplinary collection of articles. In many cases a time lag (usually between 3-5 years, sometimes longer) between the most current issue published and the content available in JSTOR.

A searchable index of author bibliographies, plot synopses, and literary topics.

Contains both the full-text of a large selection of poetry, drama, and prose works, as well as providing a searchable index of critical analyses.

A searchable index of critical analyses, bibliographies, and bibliographies, covering a wide range of authors.

A collection of original manuscripts and supporting materials from libraries around the world for the study of medieval travel writing in the Holy Land, India and China.

The compendium links three major Middle English resources: The Middle English Dictionary contains entries corresponding with the print dictionary. Most of these entries are linked to the Hyperbibliography of Middle English, which gives bibliographic information about the sources cited in the Dictionary. The Corpus of Middle English Verse and Prose provides full access to the sources.

Indexes material on literature, theatre, film, folklore and linguistics.

A collection of New Zealand related databases where publications are indexed providing a record of source, dates, bibliographic information and sometimes, a short abstract.

The Nineteenth Century Index is a growing all-inclusive bibliographic spine for 19th-century research. C19 is a one-stop finding tool covering multiple content types, providing records for millions of documents ranging from books and newspapers to government documents and periodicals at the article level.

A fully searchable English dictionary and language reference service, including example sentences, thesauruses, grammar and writing guides, and audio pronunciation guides for UK, US and world English.

Online access to content from reference works published by Oxford University Press. Includes subject specialist works in a variety of fields, in addition to more general works. .

Contains manuscripts written by women in the British Isles, on a wide variety of subjects, and from a wide variety of sources, including diaries, travel writing, advice writing, and poetry

Archive of digitized international scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences from 1802 to 1995.

A resource focusing on the arts, humanities and social sciences. Scholarly articles are the focus of the resource, but books and other university- and scholarly society- press publications are also covered.

A comprehensive multidisciplinary source of scholarly, general and reference materials in the fields of business, social sciences, health sciences, humanities and the arts. Contains material from 1980 to the present.

Details author, title, and source information for scholarly theses published in North America and other parts of the English speaking world. The collection has a broad, multi-disciplinary focus on theses published from 1861 onwards. Most theses available in full-text.

An interactive digital collection of pre-1642 editions of William Shakespeare's plays.

Provides access to descriptions of the unpublished manuscripts and pictures collections of New Zealand and Pacific material in the Alexander Turnbull Library.

A collection of electronic books, journal articles and encyclopedias covering a large range of subjects from the arts and humanities, social sciences and sciences.

Te Ara: the Encyclopedia of New Zealand aims to build a comprehensive guide to New Zealand's peoples, natural environment, history, culture, economy, institutions and society. Browse different subject categories or search across the entire resource. Te Reo Māori interface available.

Te Puna Search is a web-based search service giving access to a range of databases and bibliographic tools.

This searchable collection contains 2,500 published plays from throughout the English-speaking world, covering the history of modern drama from the 1890s to the present day. The full range of dramatic styles, genres and traditions is represented.

Articles from Victorian newspapers and magazines, identifies authors of some anonymous articles.

Collaborative, general-use encyclopedia.

Search for information about books in libraries worldwide.