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Geography (Human) - key resources

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	GeoRef (ProQuest) Provides access to references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. The database covers the geology of North America from 1669 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present.
	Global Health (Ovid) Global Health brings together two databases: the Public Health and Tropical Medicine (PHTM) database, previously produced by the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases (BHTD), and the human health and diseases information extracted from CAB ABSTRACTS. Dating back to 1973, together they provide a unique resource which offers deep subject coverage of information related to human health and communicable diseases. Global Health provides an alternative, complementary point of reference with a broad analysis of foreign language journals, books, research reports, patents and standards, dissertations, conference proceedings, annual reports, public health, developing country information, and other difficult to obtain material. The Global Health database covers the following aspects of human health and disease: communicable diseases, tropical diseases, parasitic diseases and parasitology - medical entomology, human nutrition, community and public health, and, medicinal and poisonous plants. Access also provided to the Global Health Archive from 1910.
	GreenFILE (EBSCOhost) A database covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
	International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) (ProQuest) An online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research with a focus on anthropology, economics, politics and sociology. This database includes bibliographic references to journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951.
	JSTOR Provides full-text access to back issues (delay in coverage generally 3-5 years) of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities, social sciences, and life sciences. The Library's access includes all Arts & Sciences Collections, the Life Sciences Collection, Business IV, and the Ireland Collection.
	Newztext (Knowledge Basket) A full-text archive of many of New Zealand's key news, business and industry publications.
	NZ Science (Knowledge Basket) Indexed records of New Zealand science papers and reports from a variety of organisations including DSIR, Department of Conservation, NIWA, HortResearch and Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS).
	SAGE Research Methods A research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. The database links SAGE’s book, journal and reference content with search and discovery tools. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. Includes access to Cases and Datasets.
	ScienceDirect (Elsevier) Access full-text, peer reviewed journals, books, and reference works. Covers a broad range of subjects in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Health Sciences, Life Sciences, and, Physical Sciences and Engineering.
	Scopus (Elsevier) A multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature covering the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and the arts and humanities. The database includes more than 5,000 international publishers including Elsevier (ScienceDirect), Springer, Wiley-Blackwell, Taylor & Francis, and Sage.
	Social Science Database (ProQuest) A database that provides full-text access to a variety of scientific journals. Subject coverage includes: Anthropology, Communication science, Demography, Economics, Human services, Political science, Policy studies, Psychology, and Sociology.
	Web of Science All Databases Search across all subscribed Web of Science databases: Web of Science Core Collection; Current Contents Connect; KCI-Korean Journal Database; MEDLINE; SciELO Citation Index; and, Zoological Record.
	Web of Science Core Collection Provides access to the world's leading citation databases: Science Citation Index Expanded; Social Sciences Citation Index; Arts & Humanities Citation Index; Emerging Sources Citation Index; Current Chemical Reactions; Index Chemicus; Book Citation Index; and, Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers the highest impact journals, including Open Access journals and conference proceedings.

Geography (Human) - additional resources

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	Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost) Designed for academic institutions, this database provides coverage of multidisciplinary academic journals. It supports research in the key areas of academic study by providing peer-reviewed journals, full-text periodicals, reports, books, and more.
	Academic Video Online (AVON): Premium (Alexander Street) A multidisciplinary video collection delivering thousands of video titles spanning anthropology, history, business, counselling, dance, ethnic studies, gay and lesbian studies, film, opera, religion, theatre, and more. AVON includes documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage. Users will find award-winning films, as well as the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material. Content is available from over 500 producers.
	Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science Core Collection) Bibliographic and citation information for journal articles in the arts and humanities. Individually selected, relevant items from major science and social science journals are also indexed.
	Australasian Literature: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands (Alexander Street) Creative works from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands from the 1930s to the present. Genres include Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Commentary and Criticism and Biography and Interviews.
	Biological Science Collection (ProQuest) The Biological Science Database provides wide coverage of biological science fields including animal behavior, aquatic life and fisheries, chemoreception, biochemistry, ecology, plant science, toxicology, virology, microbiology, immunology genetics, health and safety science, oncogenes, entomology, and endocrinology neuroscience. The resource also includes access to MEDLINE, and the ability to cross-search over 30 abstract and citation databases. Content includes: scholarly and trade journals, conference papers and proceedings, books, magazines & newspapers, government & official publications, reports, tables, working papers, video & audio.
	CAS SciFinder First time users must register (see entry below). If you have previously registered using the old version of SciFinder (SciFinder Scholar), this existing login will work for SciFinder. This comprehensive database for chemical reactions, substances, structures and indexed chemistry patents includes journal abstracts, patents and other literature references on all areas of science and its applications. Also containing detailed information on compounds and substances including their properties, reactions and full synthetic methods as well as protein and nucleotide sequences. A sophisticated Retrosynthesis Planner available can also be found in SciFinder.
	CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform The CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform is designed to support multiple stages and types of scientific research. It combines task-specific information solutions including CAS SciFinder, CAS Formulus®, CAS Analytical Methods™ and other CAS resources. The CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform supports multifaceted scientific research such as retrosynthetic planning, formulation design, testing-related methods research, and biosequence searching. Access the platform using your SciFinder username and password, or first time users must register using the "CAS SciFinder registration" link below.
	CAS SciFinder registration First time users for SciFinder must register, use this link.
	CAS: Analytical Methods CAS Analytical MethodsTM is a curated collection of over 500 K step-by-step analytical protocols, extracted from peer reviewed literature and patent sources. Cut down on time searching for analytical methodologies with CAS Analytical MethodsTM, a platform containing collated methodologies highlighting analytes, matrices, reagents, instruments, consummables and validation information, in easy to read and downloadable documents. Access CAS Analytical Methods using your SciFinder username and password, or first time users must register using the "CAS SciFinder registration" link above.
	CAS: Formulus CAS Formulus® is a curated collection of over five million formulation records from peer reviewed literature, patents and product inserts from the US FDA. Access a world leading collection of formulations to evaluate ingredients, manufacturing processes and regulatory information in a user friendly interface. Access CAS Formulus using your SciFinder username and password, or first time users must register using the "CAS SciFinder registration" link above.
	Current Contents Connect (Web of Science) A multidisciplinary, current awareness database that provides access to complete tables of contents, abstracts, bibliographic information, and abstracts from the most recently published issues of leading scholarly journals, as well as from relevant, evaluated websites.
	Economist: Historical Archive (Gale Cengage) A complete searchable copy of every issue of the Economist from 1843. The Economist delivers reports of international political, business, scientific, technological and cultural developments, with dispatches from all over the world. The archive includes full-colour images, multiple search indexes, exportable financial tables, a gallery of front covers, supplements, special reports and surveys.
	Energy News New Zealand's online news and information service for the energy sector including a comprehensive industry participant and energy asset database.
	Environmental Science Database (Proquest) The Environmental Science Database is a cross-disciplinary resource of full-text content of global literature across this field and related disciplines. It provides the most complete collection of resources available to support research and learning in environmental science and related fields. Content is selected from several specialist topic resources in disciplines such as engineering, biotechnology, bacteriology, atmospheric science, ecology, and biology.
	Environmental Science Index (Proquest) This resource provides in-depth A&I coverage from the environmental science literature and related disciplines. Abstracts and citations are drawn from thousands of peer-reviewed journals, trade titles, conference proceedings, dissertations, and other varied content types.
	Environmental Studies in Video (Alexander Street) Environmental Studies in Video will contain 500 hours of film covering all realms of environmental studies, particularly ethics, policy, economics, law, sociology, planning, and environmental science. The collection addresses specific topics including alternative energy, pollution control, eco-design, sustainability, farming and agriculture, the food industry, LEED certification, waste issues, and climate change.
	Factiva A global business information and research tool that aggregates content from a wide range of resources such as newspapers, journals, magazines and newswires. Content is generally full-text although coverage is sometimes selective.
	Gale Academic OneFile (Gale Cengage) Provides indexing/abstracting for journals and reference sources with many articles available in full-text. Coverage includes the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes coverage of the New York Times back to 1985.
	GeoScienceWorld eBooks A multi-publisher eBooks platform dedicated to the earth sciences.
	Humanities International Complete (EBSCOhost) Provides full-text of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. This database includes all data from Humanities International Index plus unique full-text content.
	Index New Zealand (INNZ) A searchable database that contains abstracts and descriptions of articles from New Zealand periodicals and newspapers. The periodicals range from academic research journals to magazines.
	Leisure Tourism Database (CABI) Provides bibliographic information and abstracts for all aspects of leisure and tourism including policy and planning, education and training, travel, sports, hospitality, the arts and entertainment, natural environment and ecotourism, urban regeneration, and cultural heritage. Also included are over 2000 full-text book chapters from CABI's eBook collection.
	MapToaster Topo/NZ A mapping database displaying topographic maps of New Zealand that reproduces all the rich detail and cartography of the LINZ paper topomaps.
	Natural Science Collection (ProQuest) This collection provides coverage of natural science content from thousands of publications. Also included are searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical literature.
	New Zealand Geographic Digital archive from the first issue of the magazine that covers the people, places, wildlife and environment of New Zealand.
	New Zealand Geographic VR The NZ-VR project uses specialised 360-VR video technology to produce underwater and land Virtual Reality experiences across sites including Niue, the Kermadecs, Three Kings and south to Taranaki. The VR content can be viewed on mobile devices, desktop computers and VR headsets.
	Periodicals Index Online (PIO) (ProQuest) An international index to millions of articles published in the humanities and social sciences. Every article in each journal is indexed, from volume 1, issue 1 to recent times. The database includes periodicals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages.
	Population Index A searchable annotated bibliography of books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics, covering the years 1986-2000. Access through JSTOR.
	Project MUSE Provides digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. A source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals with over 120 publishers currently participating.
	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 online databases with subjects covering: business, law, education, computing, science, technology, engineering, arts, medicine, and religion.
	PubChem PubChem is a freely accessible online database for chemical information, providing comprehensive information on various chemical entities. Search chemicals by name, molecular formula, structure, and other identifiers.
	Research Library (ProQuest) A multidisciplinary database designed to cover the top 150 core academic subject reference areas. The database includes thousands of full-text titles, with a diversified mix of scholarly journals, professional and trade publications, and general interest magazines.
	SAGE Knowledge eBooks Includes SAGE eBook and eReference content, including scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development titles, and more.
	SciELO Citation Index (Web of Science) An abstracting/indexing database with links to open access full-text for journals from Latin America, Spain, Portugal, the Caribbean and South Africa.
	Social Science Research Network (SSRN) A collaborative database of specialised research networks in each of the social sciences. SSRN includes an Abstract Database containing scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection containing full-text documents.
	Taylor & Francis Online A collection of full text journals in humanities, social sciences, science and technology from Taylor & Francis, Routledge and Psychology Press, including access to back issues from 1997 where available.
	Te Puna A web-based search service giving access to the bibliographic details of what is held in New Zealand and international libraries.
	Wiley Online Library A collection of full-text scientific, technical, medical, social science and business journals published by Wiley.
	World Bank DataBank The World Bank DataBank is an analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics. You can create your own queries; generate tables, charts, and maps; and easily save, embed, and share them.
	World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI) The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognised international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.