Databases A-Z

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Papers

Working papers focusing on four areas: developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behaviour, assessing the economic effects of public policies, and projecting the effects of alternative policy proposals.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts: NCJRS

Contains summaries of articles, books, research and US and international government reports on criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control.  Published by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice's National Criminal Justice Reference Service.

Natural Science Collection

A collection of images from scholarly research in the life sciences including tables, figures, graphs and other illustrations.

Naxos Jazz Music Library

Access more than 100,000 jazz audio tracks in contemporary, blues, nostalgia, world, pop and rock styles. Mobile app capability.

Naxos Music Library

A collection of mainly classical and jazz music sound tracks. Media player required.

Naxos Video Library

An extensive library of more than 2500 full-length videos of classical music performances (1800), opera (560), and documentaries (200). Features include high-quality streaming at full-screen resolution, the option for users to create custom clips and playlists, and the inclusion of libretto/text where available.

New Oxford Shakespeare

The New Oxford Shakespeare presents an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works drawing on the latest textual and theatrical scholarship. This cross-searchable, multi-volume resource contains a modern critical edition (with modern spelling for reading and study), a critical reference edition and an authorship companion.

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online

An award-winning, regularly updated online resource. Consisting of over 1,900 articles written by leading figures in the field including Nobel Prize winners, this is a definitive scholarly reference work for economists. Draws together eminent contributors from across the spectrum of methodological and ideological schools and also provides many individual classic essays of enduring importance.

New Zealand Asia Information Service

A wide variety of resources relating to New Zealand's involvement with Asia. Some records in Asian languages.

New Zealand Gazette Archive

New Zealand Gazette Archive comprises pdf copies of issues of the New Zealand Gazette from 1841 to 2008 and early Provincial proceedings including Acts, Ordinances and Gazettes. This resource can only be browsed and not searched.

New Zealand Gazette Online

Displays all Gazette editions published since 1 January 2000. Gazette notices published between 1993 and 1999 are available on the searchable data base.

New Zealand Geographic

New Zealand Geographic Digital Archive is a rich source of New Zealand content comprising both magazine articles and streaming video about our natural world. It includes the entire archive of NZ Geographic magazines dating back to 1989, as well as over 250 hours of natural history video.

New Zealand Index

A collection of New Zealand related databases where publications are indexed providing a record of source, dates, bibliographic information and sometimes, a short abstract.

New Zealand Law Journal Archive 1925-2001

Collection of images of each issue of the New Zealand Law Journal, which includes scholarly articles on all areas of law.

New Zealand Legal Information Institute

Free New Zealand legal materials including cases, legislation, journals, and links to official government websites. Includes New Zealand Acts as Enacted database for legal history research.

New Zealand Legal Writing Index

Entries include links to legislation and cases cited in each article. Journals indexed include: New Zealand Law Journal, New Zealand Universities Law Review, New Zealand Law Review, New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, New Zealand Journal of Taxation Law and Policy, New Zealand Journal of Environmental Law, New Zealand Family Law Journal, and Law Reviews from Victoria, Auckland, Waikato, Canterbury and Otago universities.

New Zealand Legislation

Managed by the Parliamentary Counsel Office this database contains current New Zealand Acts, Regulations, Bills and Supplementary Order Papers. 

New Zealand Plant Conservation Network

This website provides information about New Zealand native plants and their conservation. The Network's main focus is nationally threatened plants and plant communities that require conservation management for their continued survival.

New Zealand refugee law (RefNZ)

New Zealand Refugee Law contains a range of material on refugee law, including Refugee Status Appeal Authority Decisions, High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court cases on refugee issues. The database is created as a public service by Rodger Haines QC who owns copyright.

New Zealand Science

A comprehensive index of New Zealand Science, provided by the Crown Research Institutes, and the Royal Society of New Zealand.

New Zealand Statistician

Official journal of the New Zealand Statistical Association Inc. Covers aspects of the use of statistics in the New Zealand Context. Continued by the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics.

New Zealand Treaties Online

An official database of all treaties to which New Zealand is a party or is in the process of becoming a party. Contains the full text of the treaties.

New Zealand's lost cases

The New Zealand Lost Cases project includes a Source database showing where court records can be found, and a Cases database reproducing cases found from 1840 to 1883. These cases are not published, and were located in manuscript collections, archives and judges' notebooks and libraries.

Newspaper Source

A collection of international newspapers, with many from the U.S. Titles include USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times (London) and The Toronto Star. Regional newspapers from the U.S. are also well represented and include The Boston Globe, The New York Daily News and The Chicago Tribune. Television and radio news transcripts are also provided.

Newsroom Pro

Newsroom Pro is an online subscription news service based in Wellington. 

It is edited by respected financial journalist Bernard Hickey, Newsroom Pro publishes news, analysis, commentary and information throughout the working day, and also sends an ‘8 things at 8am’ email each weekday morning. It “reports on government and business from around the Beehive in a detailed, useful and non-partisan way”. 

Newztext Magazines

New Zealand magazines with a business, trade or industry orientation. Includes NZ Doctor and Pharmacy today along with the weekly business papers The Independent and the National Business Review (NBR).

Newztext Newspapers

New Zealand daily metropolitan and provincial newspapers published by Fairfax, plus the NZ Herald from the mid-1990s to present. Also includes Radio New Zealand Newswire. Useful for all subject areas when seeking reporting or commentary on contemporary events.

NewztextPlus

All-in-one searching of the key news and business content of Newztext Magazines, Newztext Newspapers, Index New Zealand, local newswires and TNS regional and industry sector reports.

Nielsen Media: TV Services - Ratings Reports

Television audience measurement

Nineteenth Century Index: C19

The Nineteenth Century Index is a growing all-inclusive bibliographic spine for 19th-century research. C19 is a one-stop finding tool covering multiple content types, providing records for millions of documents ranging from books and newspapers to government documents and periodicals at the article level.

Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism

Profiles approximately three to six novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists, philosophers or other creative and nonfiction writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism reproduced from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. A full citation and annotation precede each of the approximately 50 essays per volume; many include an author portrait.

North China Herald

Published in Shanghai, prime printed source for the history of the foreign presence in China from around 1850 to the 1940s. News reflecting the social, cultural and political life of the foreign settlements, Chinese news, financial news, maps, cartoons, photographs, advertisements.

NRAM - National Register of Archives and Manuscripts

A centralised register for archives held in many New Zealand repositories, for example, letters, diaries, photographs, oral history recordings, wills, birth, death and marriage certificates, immigration records, financial records. It also includes links to many of the individual repositories.

Nursing and Allied Health Collection

Accesses nearly 4.2 million articles from 1,115 journals concerning almost every kind of nursing application from caring for neonates, the elderly and trauma victims to developing policy, operating specialized equipment, and record keeping.

NZ Business Law Guide

Practical guide to New Zealand business law topics including legislation, court cases, and legal commentary. Useful for industry compliance research.

NZ Chinese Journals

A database of three historical newspapers: the Man Sing Times (1921-1922), the New Zealand Chinese Weekly News (1937-1946), and the New Zealand Chinese Growers (1949-1972) - searchable in English or Chinese.

NZ Company Law and Practice

Comprehensive guide to the principles and practice of company and securities law in New Zealand, including legislation, court cases, legal commentary and news.

NZ Conveyancing Law and Practice

Comprehensive collection of legislation, court cases, legal commentary and news on property law in New Zealand.

NZ E-commerce Law

E-Commerce law provides practical commentary about the e-commerce legal and regulatory environment. The commentary also has related legislation, news bulletins and case digests.

NZ Employment Law

Comprehensive collection of legislation, court cases, legal commentary and news on employment law and human resource management in New Zealand.

NZ Energy & Environment Business Week

An independent weekly newsletter of news and commentary on all aspects of energy and the environment as it affects business and central and local government.

NZ Goods and Services Tax Guide

Comprehensive collection of legislation, court cases, legal commentary, rulings and news about sales tax law in New Zealand.

NZ Health & Wealth Report

A fortnightly newsletter focussing on taking charge of one's personal lifestyle. Provides summaries and tips from news items covering personal finance, well-being, health and nutrition.

NZ Tax

Comprehensive guide to New Zealand tax law, including legislation, court cases, bulletins, reports, newsletters and Inland Revenue (IRD) publications. Selected Australian, British and Canadian tax court cases are included.

NZ Transport Intelligence Briefing

An independent weekly newsletter providing news and commentary on all aspects of road, rail, air and sea transport.

NZCER Journals Online

Searchable indexes and abstracts for the four journals Set, Early Childhood Folio, Curriculum Matters and Assessment Matters leading to online full-text access.

NZIER Publications

Publications produced by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research. These are Quarterly Predictions (QP),  Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion (QSBO) (both from 1999 to present) and Consensus CPI Forecasts (CF).

NZX Data Company Research

This resource from the New Zealand Stock Exchange provides information on New Zealand's listed and delisted companies. Contents include: company history, investment profiles, financial summaries, annual reports, share prices, forecasts and stock exchange indices. Current and archival data - some spanning as far back as the 1970s - are provided.