Early Childhood Education  

A database allows you to search for material in journals, magazines and electronic books. You can read a description (abstract) of the article or book or you can often read the whole article or book online. Many databases require Adobe Acrobat Reader to read PDF files.

Click the icon to download the reader

 Searching for information is a four step process:

1. Brainstorm your topic to find relevant keywords and phrases
2. Select a database that has content for your subject. The list below is a good starting point.
3. Use the keywords and phrases from your brainstorm to create your search. Each database has Help pages available to assist with your search
4. View your results, evaluate and select the article(s) you require, or, redevelop your keywords and start the process again.

Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre   (Onsite)
Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre (Offsite, the user name and passwords are the same as the campus network logins)
Tutorial 

Combines Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books.

ebrary  (On campus)
ebrary  (Offsite, the password and username are the same as the campus network logins. You may also wish to download  The ebrary Reader  for enhanced features).
45,000 digital books, on a wide range of subjects. You can set up a password on the bookshelf area, and add passages and your own notes, and have APA style references added automatically. A quick user guide is available on the homepage here.

ERIC  (Onsite)
ERIC Offsite (Offsite, the password and username are the same as the campus network logins)
A guide to published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics. Abstracts with some full text.

General OneFile (Onsite - if the database asks for a password, it means we have reached our limit of the number of people who may use it concurrently, please try later)
General OneFile (Offsite, the password and username are the same as the campus network logins)
News and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care (ie Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand), hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

Index New Zealand (INNZ)
Tutorial  
Contains abstracts from nearly 300 New Zealand journals and selected newspapers.

MasterFILE Premier  
MasterFILE Premier(Offsite, the password and username are the same as the campus network logins)

Tutorial  

Provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference periodicals covering business, health, education, general science and multicultural issues, and reference books including biographies, primary source documents and an image collection of photos, maps and flags.  Dating as far back as 1975.  You can arrange for a Journal Alert (You will be emailed with a contents list every time a new issue of your journal is published) or Search Alert (to be emailed every time a new article on your topic is published) service.

New Zealand Legislation

All current laws for this country. Definitions of the types of laws are available from the Parliamentary Counsel Office.

ProQuest Central (Onsite)

ProQuest Central (Offsite, the password and username are the same as the campus network logins)
Search Tips

Please note:  We are currently experiencing problems accessing ProQuest offsite.  We are working on this and hope to have the issue resolved soon. 

Provides global access to one of the largest online content repositories in the world, with full text of over 4000 journals, newspapers and magazines with detailed abstracts and indexing for a further 3500 publications. The following subjects are covered:  accounting, arts, business, careers, computers, economics, children, education, finance, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, medicine, multicultural, newspapers, pharmacy; psychology, sciences, social sciences, technology, and telecommunications.