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General Collection

The following subject headings are useful to find items:

Accounting 657 Employment Relations 331
Business 658 Human Resource Management 658.3
Communication 302.2/658.45 Law 346
Computing 004-006 Management 658
Customer Service 658.812 Market Research 658.83
E-Commerce 658.84 Marketing 658.8
Economics 330 Supervision 658.302

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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:

Safari Business Books
 
Desktop Help Library
 
IT/Developer Library

 

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

Online Reference books

encyclopedia britannica
Britannica Online - a great all round general online encyclopedia with links to millions of articles, definitions, facts, etc.
(password required off campus).



credo reference
Credo Reference (formerly XRefer Plus) is a completely customizable ready-reference solution for learners and librarians. Its full-text, aggregated content covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference. There are over 225 titles consisting of an aggregate of 2.9 million entries all interconnected by over 100,000,000 links.

Collins Dictionary of Business

Collins Dictionary of Economics

Dictionary of Business

Dictionary of Economics

Dictionary of Human Resources and Personnel Management

Dictionary of Information and Library Management

Dictionary of Leisure, Travel and Tourism

Dictionary of Publishing and Printing

The New Penguin Business Dictionary

The Penguin Dictionary of Economics

The Penguin International Dictionary of Finance

The Ultimate Business Library

Wall Street Words


 

gale reference suiteRead the full reference book online

 


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.
Accommodation Guides R919.3
Atlases R912
The chartered accountant's manual R657 ACC
Collins Business English dictionary R658.003 FLY
Dictionary of business terms R650 FRI
Dictionary of e-business R330.03 WEC
Dictionary of economics and business R330.03 WEC
Dictionary of New Zealand biography R920.3
Directory of National Community Groups R068.93 DES
English Dictionaries and Thesauri - also online R423
Foreign Language Dictionaries - also online R430 - 499
New Zealand Business Who's Who R370.1025 NEW
NZ Business Directory by UBD - also online R380.1029 UNI
New Zealand Government Directory - also online R354.93
New Zealand Official Year Book R319.3 NEW
Staples Tax Guide - 64th ed. R336.2 STA
Telephone Books (yellow and white pages) - also online Reference Section
World Travel Guides R910.202

 


Journals

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. Many journals are available online - ask us!

The Accountant 657 ACC
Chartered Accountants Journal of NZ 657 CHA
Company and Securities Law Bulletin 346.066 COM
Current Law 340 CUR
The Economist 330.4 ECO
Employment Law Bulletin 344.01 EMP
Employment Today 658.3 EMP
Financial Management 658.1511 FIN
Human Resources 658.3 HUM
Industrial Management 658 IND
Journal of Management Information Systems 658.4038 JOU
Journal of Small Business Management 658.022 JOU
Management Services 658 MAN
MIT Sloan Management Review 658 SLO
NZ Business 658 NEW
New Zealand Economic Papers 330.993 NEW
New Zealand Journal of Applied Business Research 658.0072 NEW
New Zealand Journal of Industrial Relations 331 NEW
New Zealand Law Journal 340 NEW
New Zealand Law Review 340 NEW
New Zealand Marketing Magazine 658 MAR
T+D (Training & Development) 658.3 TD
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Databases

Use an electronic database to easily find journal articles and other information. Type keywords in the database search window.

Of particular interest to Business Management 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:

Research databases
 

 


Gale Cengage Suite of Databases (Password required off campus)

Gale

 

General One File databaseGeneral 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 database
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.

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Websites

 

business.govt.nz is the New Zealand government business site. It provides free access to a wide range of resources and acts as a gateway to government and private sector business information, news and services. On the site there are practical resources and links to information to help business owners and managers start, manage or grow their businesses, and deal with the day-to-day challenges they face. business.govt.nz is managed and maintained by the Ministry of Economic Development (MED). MED works to ensure New Zealand is one of the best places in the world to do business.

business.govt.nz

Human Resources Institute of New Zealand - www.hrinz.org.nz
The professional organisation for people who are interested or involved in the management and development of human resources.

Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand - www.icanz.co.nz
The professional body for accountants in New Zealand.


Ministry of Economic Development - www.med.govt.nz
The Ministry leads the production and co-ordination of policy advice related to economic, regional and industry development

 


New Zealand Commerce Commission - www.comcom.govt.nz
The government body responsible for awareness and acceptance of, and compliance with, the Commerce and Fair Trading Acts, so that consumers and producers benefit from healthy competition.

 
New Zealand Companies Office - www.companies.govt.nz
Search for information on companies, register a new company, reserve a company name, file certain company documents and update director and company address information online.

 

New Zealand Institute of Management - www.nzim.co.nz
The New Zealand Institute of Management is New Zealand’s professional body for managers. They also provide management education and training in NZ.

New Zealand Stock Exchange - www.nzx.com

New Zealand Trade and Enterprise - www.nzte.govt.nz
NZTE is the Government’s agency charged with helping New Zealand businesses achieve success at home and in the global marketplace.

NZIER - www.nzier.org.nz
A privately funded, independent economic consulting and forecasting organisation specialising in applied economic research and analysis.

Reserve Bank of New Zealand - www.rbnz.govt.nz
New Zealand's Central Bank. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand's three main functions are: operating monetary policy to maintain price stability; promoting the maintenance of a sound and efficient financial system; and meeting the currency needs of the public.


Statistics New Zealand - www.statistics.govt.nz
Statistics New Zealand is New Zealand's national statistical office and is the country's major source of official statistics.

 
Universal Business Directory - www.ubd.co.nz
Over 160,000 New Zealand businesses, with 158,000 products in 321,976 company trades listed.

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