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Index New Zealand is an online database which provides access to the main articles found in selected New Zealand publications, including newspapers and nearly 300 magazines about New Zealand and the South Pacific. Index New Zealand is updated daily with approximately 2,000 new articles added each month. Subjects covered include general interest, social research, current affairs, the arts and humanities. Index New Zealand is an index only. This means that it will only list the titles of the articles in each magazine, but not the actual article for you to read. To
obtain the article, note down the details, and come and see one of the
librarians at the front desk.
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How do I access Index New Zealand? Index New Zealand is web-based. Click here for access - Index New Zealand To use Index New Zealand from outside of a WelTec campus, contact the Library for a username and password. |
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Index New Zealand works by searching for keywords. To carry out a simple search using Index New Zealand, simply:
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Which Search Option Should I Use? Using the Simple Search, there are five main options you can choose: Keyword
Relevance Source
Journal (Begins With)
Article
Title (Begins with)
Author
Heading If
searching for a particular person, enter: To
find articles about an organisation, type in the first few words of the
organisations name.
Subject
Heading To do a Subject Heading search, enter the first few words of the subject heading. To find a suitable subject heading to use, start by using one of the keyword search options (e.g. Keyword Relevance) then look at the subject headings in the record to see which would be most useful. You can click on any subject heading in the record and retrieve a list of other articles that have been described using this same subject heading . |
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Search Hints for Using Index New Zealand Keyword
Relevance If you enter more than one keyword when using Keyword Relevance search, results will find records that contain at least one of the keywords you entered, but not all of them. To make your search more effective, enter search terms with a + sign immediately before each word. This tells Index New Zealand to find all keywords before it selects a record for your results list. Example
Index New Zealand came back with over 10,000 results, because it found at least one of the keywords somewhere in the record, but most of the results weren't relevant. By redoing the search using the + sign, Index New Zealand narrowed results lists to 15 articles, all which were relevant.
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Phrasing Truncating
Keywords
Excluding
Keywords
Combining
Searches To do this, you need to think carefully about which keywords you choose and how you can combine them. If you are not getting the results you wanted, try again, or ask one of the librarians to help. Don't forget to look at the above examples for ideas on how to try and combine different types of searches. |
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Accurately defining which keywords to use and how to combine them, is the reason why most people have problems when searching for relevant material. Below, is a list of hints, that may help you choose the right keywords to search with.
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After you have carried out a search, Index New Zealand displays the list of results for you to view. It lists:
To select an article to view, simply click on the Article Title highlighted in blue. This will then take you through to a more complete record of the article.
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E-mailing, Printing or Saving Your Results You can choose to either print, save or e-mail the articles you have selected from your result list. To do this:
All on page : if you wish to e-mail/print/save all the records on the page.
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As Index New Zealand is an index only i.e. it will only list the articles in each magazine, but will not provide you with the article itself, after completing your search, you will have a list of articles you want to get hold of. To get hold of the articles you need to ask the librarians for help. They will:
With interloaning articles, it will take time (sometimes up to two weeks). So make sure you have allowed plenty of time for gathering resources into your study plan. Details which the librarian will need are the:
Don't worry - all of these details will be listed on your printout from Index New Zealand. Email: interloans@weltec.ac.nz
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Journals & Newspapers Covered by Index New Zealand Below is a list of some of the journal and newspaper titles which Index New Zealand indexes and might be of interest to your studies. For a complete list of titles indexed by Index New Zealand, click here.
Arts and Design (includes architecture, landscape design, film)
Economics (Includes Industrial Relations)
Health (Includes medicine, nursing, health administration)
Science and Information Technology
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