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.
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.
Information with an Australasian focus from Australian and New Zealand magazines, newspapers and newswires, reference books, and company information.
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 searchable multi-disciplinary collection of articles from academic journals published by Cambridge University Press.
A collection covering all areas of communication and mass media. Topics include human communication and information technology, interpersonal communication, online communication, popular media culture, propaganda, censorship and the media's role in politics. Profiles of 5000+ authors are also provided. The coverage is international with source documents drawn from scholarly journals, trade magazines, books and conference papers.
Articles on all aspects of the communications and mass media fields. Covers topics such as broadcasting, journalism and advertising.
Over 3,000 biographies of notable New Zealanders. Note that it does not include people who are alive.
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.
Covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the ethnographic filmmakers of the 20th century. Includes interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and searchable transcripts.
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 searchable index of film criticism and film reviews.
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.
This resouce provides literature on the performing arts. A wide range of subjects in the performing arts is covered including dance, film, drama, opera, stagecraft, comedy, pantomime, puppetry, magic and television.
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.
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.
Television audience measurement
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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. .
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.
Collection of leading black U.S.newspapers, covering the period 1910 to 2005 - Atlanta Daily World, Chicago Defender, Los Angeles Sentinel and New York Amsterdam News.
Online library of popular music journalism. Contains articles from magazines such as Creem and Rolling Stone from the 1950s onwards.
Access to over 80 online encyclopedias (published by Sage) in the humanities, social sciences and business.
Access to over 400 academic journals (published by Sage) in the social sciences, humanities, business, medicine, engineering, technology and physical and life sciences.
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.
Collaborative, general-use encyclopedia.
Search for information about books in libraries worldwide.