The Library provides access to a large amount of material via online databases and electronic journals available for free self-service use for Victoria staff and students. Many of these resources contain access to the full text of material as well as image and video content.
Over 3,000 biographies of notable New Zealanders. Note that it does not include people who are alive.
This database provides topical and historical issues within Indigenous studies. The multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary framework 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.
The Maori Land Court Minute Books Index, created by The University of Auckland Library and now online with the Knowledge Basket, is an index of over 1,100 minute books from the Taitokerau, Waikato-Maniapoto, Tairawhiti, Waiariki, Aotea, Takitimu, and Waipounamu Maori Land Court Districts.
This resource contains 9000 Doctoral, Masters and Diploma theses in education topics about New Zealand and by New Zealanders at a wide range of overseas tertiary institutions.
The New Zealand Lost Cases project includes a Source database showing where court records can be found, and a Cases database reproducing cases found from 1840 to 1883. These cases are not published, and were located in manuscript collections, archives and judges' notebooks and libraries.
Provides access to descriptions of the unpublished manuscripts and pictures collections of New Zealand and Pacific material in the Alexander Turnbull Library.
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.
Wakareo ā-ipurangi is a compilation of a large number of separate Māori-English and English-Māori dictionary, lexicon, and word-list resources - compiled, organised and maintained by Wordstream Corporation Ltd - Te Tokapū Whakairo Kupu.
