EPIC
(Electronic Purchasing In Collaboration)
New Zealand libraries have banded together to buy access to a collection of EPIC e-resources. These resources offer you easy access to thousands of high quality electronic publications, including New Zealand and international full-text journals and magazines, photographs and graphics.
EPIC resources are available to members of the Library only - you will need your library barcode number.
Please Note - By following the links on these webpages you agree that:
"These databases are protected by copyright. They are provided by Rotorua Public Library for use by individuals who are registered Rotorua Public Library staff and patrons for the purposes of personal use or for research in a corporate, business, academic or government setting. By accessing these databases you agree to these terms and conditions of usage. Your continued access to and usage of these databases indicates your agreement to abide by these terms and conditions."
This is what is available:
EPIC Gale Infotrac has a wide range of resources:
Biography Resource Centre
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.
Discovering Collection
This comprehensive database allows for searching under a range of subjects including history, literature, geography, and biographies.
Health and Wellness Resource Centre and Alternative Health module
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.
History Resource Centre: Modern World
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.
InfoTrac OneFile
Containing 35 million articles and updated daily, InfoTrac 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 Centre
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.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Centre
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. An excellent resource for those wishing to do in-depth investigations about major contentious topics.
Student Resource Centre College Edition
The Student Resource centre provides cross-curricular information suitable for senior secondary school students. Students can search topics including history, literature, geography, and biographies.
What Do I Read Next?
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.
EPIC Ebsco Reference Centre contains two databases:
Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre
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.
MasterFILE Premier
This collection provides full text access to articles from over 2000 major international publications. 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.