New Zealand Digital Resources
If you are looking for New Zealand material, these digital resources will get you started.
They include magazine databases, dictionaries, legislation and publications held in New Zealand libraries.
BIRTHS, DEATHS & MARRIAGES
Search and order New Zealand Government records for births, deaths and marriages (BDM)
The historic data available to search is limited so that people or families who might still be alive, can be protected.
FINDNZARTICLES
findNZarticles contains indexes to New Zealand content in a wide range of sources, including the Southern Regional news index created by Dunedin Public Libraries.
INDEX NEW ZEALAND
Index New Zealand contains abstracts of articles from New Zealand magazines and newspapers.
LEGISLATION NEW ZEALAND
Legislation New Zealand contains New Zealand Acts (unconsolidated), Regulations, Bills, and Hansard.
THE NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT DIRECTORY
The New Zealand Government Directory is the country's most comprehensive source of information on Parliament, politics and the public sector available from one location..
NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL UNION CATALOGUE/TE PUNA
The New Zealand National Union Catalogue / Te Puna lists publications currently held in every New Zealand library. Use it to search for items you're interested in, and find out which libraries hold copies of those items.
SOUTHERN REGIONAL NEWS INDEX
The online Southern Regional News Index database contains some 250,000 records dated from 1993 onwards, but other periods have also been indexed, for example the 1850s, the 1930s and 1940s.
Waka Kuaka: Journal of the Polynesian Society
Waka Kuaka: Journal of the Polynesian Society is an inter-disciplinary journal that features social, cultural, indigenous and historical research relating to the past and present lives and cultures of peoples of Pacific/Oceanic heritage, including those of the traditional cultural areas of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. This journal is now published online only. You can access the current issue onsite at our libraries, or offsite by logging in with your Library barcode number and PIN/password.