General Collection

The following subject headings are useful to find items:

Search the catalogue (Type keywords into the search window. e.g.: customer service).

Textbooks & Recommended Readings

Course texts and selected recommended readings are held in the restricted loan collection.
Please ask for them at the front service desk. Your tutors should provide you with a full list of readings.

Course texts - two hour loan. Selected recommended readings - three day loan.

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Ebooks

Safari Books Online

Safari Books Online provides access to an expansive digital collection of business and technical publications at your fingertips, available anytime, anywhere. Safari is the only service in the world that delivers entire searchable collections of books, working manuscripts, short topic PDFs, certification study guides, and instructional videos from top technology and business publishers. (around 5000 book titles availabe).
To find out how to use Safari Books, click here for the Flashdemo.

WelTec has access to:

Also, don't forget to check out Google Books - free online books via Google.
Right now, you can search the full text of some seven million books through Google Book Search. Try it out for yourself.

The Reference Collection

The print reference collection

• Located by the front service desk.
• Contains materials such as dictionaries, encyclopaedias, directories and yearbook.
• Provides concise, factual information which help you to define your subject area.
• Check out other reference resources online by clicking on the hotlink Reference Tools.

Journals

• Provide current ideas and information on a subject.
• The catalogue states what volumes/issues we hold.
  It cannot tell you what articles are inside of each journal.
• Use a database to find articles - see below.

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Databases

Use an electronic database to easily find journal articles. Simply type keywords in the database search window. Of interest to Business Administration are:

A'Courts
The A'Courts Database of Products and Brands in New Zealand, constitutes an collection of over 50,000 brand names, classified in over 40,000 product categories.

Brookers Online

Search acts/Statutes of NZ by title

Brookers online database offers access to NZ legislation, case law, and legal guides. WelTec subscribes to:
- Building Law
- Case Law
- Commercial Law
- Company Law
- Employment Law
- Insolvency Cases
- Intellectual Property Law
- Law Partner - Statutes, Bills and Regulations of New Zealand
(Password required off campus)

Search all Ebscohost databases:

Gale Suite of Databases

General OneFile 1980 - JUN, 2008
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, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

RDS Business Suite - Click here to search across all three databases at once.
The RDS Business Suite is a collection of three highly complementary business information databases - Business & Industry, Business & Management Practices, and TableBase.  Using the Business Suite search interface you may search each database individually through search interfaces that are designed to optimize the searching of each individual database.  It is also possible to search across two or three databases simultaneously through the Business Suite search interface. The RDS Business Suite search interface is useful when searching for broad profiling information about companies or industries. The content from each database is highly complementary.  Additionally, searching B&I and TableBase together produces results which include the textual content from B&I supported by the tabular content of TableBase.

Newztext
Newztext provides searchable access to articles from the major NZ newspapers (including NZ Herald, Waikato Times, Dominion Post, The Press, etc) and many business/trade magazines (including The National Business Review, The Independent, NZ Marketing, NZ Management, NZ Business, etc). Updated daily.

UBD Business Directory
The UBD database contains detailed information on more than 152,990 businesses throughout the country.

Govt.nz - www.govt.nz
Looking for government and council services? This site links you to the information you need to get services such as getting a birth certificate or applying for legal aid.
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