AnyQuestions.co.nz
AnyQuestions.co.nz is an innovative service that gives all school children in New Zealand their own guide to help them find quality information amongst the millions of pages on the internet.
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Biography Resource Centre *
This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search. With the Complete Marquis Who's Who(R), find quick reference information on an additional 900,000 people.
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Contemporary Women's issues *
A multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press - with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries.
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Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
This website contains over 3,000 biographies of New Zealanders who have 'made their mark' on this country. It does not include people who are alive. This site includes the collected biographies originally published in the printed Dictionary of New Zealand Biography series between 1990 and 2000, and in the parallel Maori-language series, Nga Tangata Taumata Rau.
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Discovery Collection *
Use this comprehensive database to retrieve in-depth reference content for the core curriculum areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies.
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History Resource Centre *
Modern World History Resource Center: Modern World has always featured extensive coverage of the 20th century. History Resource Center: World broadens this focus both geographically and chronologically, with the addition of new content on the ancient Mediterranean, Near East, Asia, Middle East, Latin America, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. From antiquity to the present, world history curricula is reflected by content from over 2,000 primary sources, 25 reference titles and from 110 academic journals.
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NZHistory.Net
NZHistory.net.nz aims to be your first port of call when you voyage the World Wide Web in search of information on New Zealand history.
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource *
Centre Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles
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Statistical Sources
This is a starting place for locating a large range of New Zealand statistical information sources both online and in print.
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Statistics New Zealand
New Zealand's official website for census and demographic statistics.
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Student Resource Centre *
Approach research from every angle with the Student Resource Center - College Edition, the Gale Group's comprehensive, cross-curricular reference source for college and college-prep libraries. The Student Resource Center - College Edition provides researchers with an expansive collection specifically designed to meet the needs of college freshmen and sophomores
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Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
In Māori, Te Ara means 'the pathway'. Through interlinking text and image trails, the Encyclopedia takes you on a journey of discovery. Beginning with the theme of Peoples, it will eventually present a comprehensive guide to New Zealand – its natural environment, history, culture, economics and government.
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Technology innovation in New Zealand
History of technological innovation in New Zealand. This site covers the history of the technological era in New Zealand from the end of WWI until the 1980's.
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