Whether you need a quick answer to a question or quality information for a research project, these electronic databases are a great place to source a wide range of great information.
They contain up-to-date information from around the world gathered from a variety of sources including periodicals, websites, newspapers, academic journals and books.
Text information is available from all the databases and some databases contain extensive diagrams and illustrations, website links, video clips and sound bites.
NOTE: Our Grolier databases are not currently available, we apologise for the inconvenience.
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Art
English
Geography
History
Music
Science
Scholarships
Entire curriculum
Encyclopedias
Art
Oxford Art Online
The ultimate guide to all aspects of art from around the world from pre-history to today.
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English
GALE Literature Resource Centre Biographies
Book reviews and critical essays about authors throughout time.
GALE Opposing Viewpoints Resource Centre
Great for researching debates as provides differing opinions on from all points of viewpoints on today’s issues.
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Geography
Grolier Lands and People
Current information on countries, cultures and related events.
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History
GALE History Resource Centre
Information on major world historical events and periods.
GALE Biography Resource Centre
Over 400,000 biographies from throughout history covering all subject areas.
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Music
Oxford Music Online
The ultimate guide to all aspects of music worldwide. From instruments to composers, musical pieces to indigenous traditions, from ancient times to today’s latest stars.
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Science
Proquest Science
Access to the world’s leading scientific journals and texts.
Grolier New Book of Popular Science
In-depth science articles, plus science in the news.
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Scholarships
Breakout
Awards, scholarships and grants available to New Zealand students.
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Entire curriculum
EBSCOhost MasterFILE
Contains full text articles from nearly 2,000 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, science and much more.
GALE Discovering Collection
Made up of biographies, essays, timeline events and plot summaries of core curriculum subjects.
GALE Student Resource Centre
Contains biographies, essays and full text articles from more than 2000 journals.
INNZ Index New Zealand
An index of articles from new Zealand and Pacific newspapers and journals. See your school librarian for more information.
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Encyclopaedias
WorldBook Online
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Britannica
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