Ashburton Online Databases

Free to use New Zealand Databases

Dictionary of New Zealand Biography contains biographies of New Zealanders, who are no longer alive, who have played a part in New Zealand's history and development.

findNZarticles contains indexes to New Zealand content in a wide range of sources.

Index New Zealand contains abstracts of articles from New Zealand magazines and newspapers.

Papers Past searches digitised regional and national newspapers dating from 1850 to 1945.

Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand is building a comprehensive guide to our peoples, natural environment, history, culture, economy and society.

In Maori Te Ara means 'the pathway'. Through interlinking text and image trails, the encyclopedia takes you on a journey of discovery.

The National Library of New Zealand helps you to access and use the collective knowledge of the nation.

They consider it their job to collect, connect, and co-create knowledge to power New Zealand.

Click on the eResources tab after searching the catalogue to find results from a number of other databases including:

arXiv: Open access to 1,018,898 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics

DASH – Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard: A central, open-access repository of research by members of the Harvard community

DOAJ: an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals

J-STAGE: Japanese Science – a facility that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals. Contains earthquake and volcanic research

OAPEN Library: contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences