Gore District Library EPIC Resources
Gore District Library has joined with over 180 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.
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Find articles in Newspapers, Magazines and Journals
Search for Business Information
Get Homework Help
Discover Who, What, Where, When?
Explore Books, Authors, Fiction & Fact
Information on Health & Wellness
News, Magazines and Journals
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.
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.
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.
Business Information
Business Reference Suite – Thomson Gale
Search across three related business and industry focussed databases:
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.
TableBase provides access to thousands of hard-to-find tables of data for more than 90 industries.
Homework Help
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.
Student Resource Center - College Edition Expanded- Gale
The Student Resource centre 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.
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.
Who, What, Where, When?
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.
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.
History Resource Centre - World - 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.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - Gale
Useful database for exploring popular social issues. Opposing Viewpoints
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.
Books, Authors, Fiction & Fact
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.
What do I read next? - Gale
This excellent database helps you identify new books to read. Covers
adult and young adult as well as children's fiction and nonfiction.
Searching is by author, title, subject, genre, character, and topic.
What Do I Read Next? also contains an extensive selection of award
winning books, over 50,000 plot summaries and promotions for upcoming
titles.
Health & Wellness
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.