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EPIC ONLINE DATABASES
(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 database resources are available to members of the Library only - you will need your library barcode number to gain access.
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Books & Authors |
Books & Authors offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. Combining over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian's favorites lists, Books & Authors helps bring readers and literature together. |
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Gale Biography in Context
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Gale Biography in Context is an engaging onlibne experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. |
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Discovering Collection
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This comprehensive database allows for searching under a range of subjects including history, literature, geography, and biographies. |
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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. |
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Gale Virtual Reference Library |
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. |
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Gale World History in Context |
Contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in World History. Full text magazine, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, viseos and audio files. |
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General One File |
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science and much more. Updated daily. |
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Literature Resource Centre |
This database contains critical essays and biographical information on over 130,000 authors, both historical and contemporary. A superb and comprehensive resource for students. It also includes information on major New Zealand authors. |
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Centre
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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. |
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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. |
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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 three databases:
Australia/New Zealand Reference CentreThe 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 PremierThis 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.
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eGreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
EPIC Oxford Databases
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Oxford English Dictionary |
600,000 words … 3 million quotations … over 1000 years of English. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world. |
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Oxford Art Online |
The most authoritative resource for all aspects of world art with more than 45,000 signed articles and biographies on painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, textiles, jewelry, design, photography, and other art and art history topics. |
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Oxford Music Online |
Oxford Music Online is the gateway offering users the ability to access and cross-search multiple music reference resources in one location. With Grove Music Online as its cornerstone, Oxford Music Online also contains The Oxford Companion to Music (2002), which offers more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and individual works; and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd edition (revised 2006), which supplements Grove's more-extensive articles with content geared toward undergraduates and general users. Both of these sources are included in subscriptions to Grove Music Online.
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