Bookinopolis EPIC Resources
Bookinopolis has joined with over 170 New Zealand Libraries to be apart of EPIC (Electronic Purchasing in Collaboration). EPIC gives you access to thousands of high quality electronic publications, including NZ and international full-text journals, newspapers, magazines, photographs and graphics.
Want to learn more? Click on any of the links below, enter your library card number and search!
Australia/New
Zealand Reference Centre - EBSCO
The Reference Centre database
gives you access to abstracts and articles from international, Australian,
and New Zealand magazines and newspapers. It is an excellent resource for
those requiring up-to-date world, Australian and New Zealand current
events information.
Biography
Resource Centre - Gale
This database contains an extensive range of
contemporary and historical biographies of notable people including some
New Zealanders. It is searchable by name, nationality, and occupation.
Books & Authors
Find new books to read: search or browse by genre, author, age group, period or theme – or source find current reviews and lists of award winners. Covers young adult and children's fiction as well as some non-fiction.
Business and Industry
A multi-industry database with a global focus on company, industry and product information.
Business and Management Practices
In-depth information on the processes, methods and strategies of managing a business.
Contemporary
Women's Issues - Gale
This contains a huge range of articles and reports on women's issues
from professional and popular journals, and newspapers. It can be also
searched by subject, for example, gender equity.
Discovering
Collection - Gale
This comprehensive database allows for searching
under a range of subjects including history, literature, geography, and
biographies. There is also a multimedia gallery containing photographs,
graphs, maps, and sound and video clips.
Health
and Wellness Resource Centre and Alternative Health module -
Gale
This database provides authoritative answers to health and
medical questions from a huge range of over 700 health/medical journals
and pamphlets. It covers topics like mainstream and alternative medicines,
nutrition, diet, fitness, and disease. It also includes an online medical
encyclopedia and links to relevant websites.
World History In Context - Gale
Search this database for 20th
century history topics history relating to America. It features full text
articles from over 100 history journals, and includes primary documents,
maps, and images.
General OneFile
Containing million articles and updated daily, General OneFile is an ideal general research tool with huge topic coverage from
contemporary art to science. Articles are available from a wide range of
overseas magazines and newspapers.
Literature
Resource Center – Gale
This database contains critical essays and
biographical information on over 100,000 authors, both historical and
contemporary. A superb and comprehensive resource for students. It also
includes information on major New Zealand authors.
MasterFILE
Premier - EBSCO
This collection provides full text access to
articles from over 2000 major international publications such as Time,
Newsweek, and New Scientist. It also includes reference and travel works,
image collection, biographies and book reviews. Covering virtually every
subject area, MasterFILE is ideal for general research enquiries.
New Zealand Index
Use this resource to search for records of New Zealand articles and information that can't easily be found online. New Zealand Index is a unique archive that enables you to search across five separate indexes of NZ newspapers, magazines and journals including:
- NZ Science indexes NZ scientific publications from 1840 to current day
- Newzindex covers many NZ journals and major newspapers from 1985 to 2006
- Newspaper Index media coverage of political and community issues for the decade 1993 - 2003
- Index Auckland covers sources from Auckland’s beginning to current day community newspapers
- Index New Zealand over 20 years of indexed records from a wealth of New Zealand publications
Opposing Viewpoints In Context - Gale
Useful database for exploring
popular social issues.Opposing Viewpoints In Context In Context is ideal for those wanting
information covering both sides of contemporary issues like the GE debate.
Includes topical overviews and point-of-view articles. An excellent
resource for those wishing to do in-depth investigations about major
contentious topics.
Student Resources In Context- Gale
The Student Resources In Context provides cross-curricular information suitable for senior
secondary school students. Students can search topics including history,
literature, geography, and biographies. Also available is a multimedia
gallery containing photographs, graphs, maps, and sound and video clips.
TableBase
This database provides access to thousands of hard-to-find tables of data for more
than 90 industries.
Virtual Reference Suite
Explore a collection of encyclopedias, almanacs and reference sources. Subjects include health, war, pollution, history, space science, maths, occult, food and fashion.