The Reference Collection
Online Reference books
 (password required off campus).
Britannica Online - a great all round general online encyclopedia with links to millions of articles, definitions, facts, etc.
 (password required off campus).
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.
 Read the full reference book online for a range of subjects
Print Reference Collection
Some of the Education books in the reference collection:-
| Education statistics |
R370.993 |
| Polytech annual reports and Prospectuses |
R370 |
| Study in NZ: Handbook of Courses and Costs |
R378.93 STU |
| University Calendars |
R050 |
| World of Learning 2004 |
R378 WOR |
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Databases
A great way to find journal articles is to use an electronic database. Simply type keywords in the database search window.
Search all Ebscohost databases:
ERIC on EBSCOHost
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, is the world's largest source of education information, with more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.
Professional Development Collection on EBSCOhost
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
EdResearch Online
EdResearch Online, produced by the Australian Council for Educational Research, is a database of over 8,000 online articles from leading educational journals.
Gale Cengage Suite
of Databases (Password required off campus)
 Discovering
Collection JUNE 2008
Discovering Collection offers easy access to award-winning content based
on national curriculum standards. Covering the core curriculum areas,
including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, DC provides
a premium selection of reference, primary sources, creative works, and
multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips. New to the database
are popular topic picklists and an integrated national and state curriculum
standards search with content correlated to the standards.
 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.
 Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center JUN, 2008
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information
on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published
by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles,
topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles,
primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to
Websites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals
and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with
content correlated to the standards.
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.
VOCED
The UNESCO/NCVER research database for technical and vocational education and training, an international database of research abstracts, in English. It is produced by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) of Australia.
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Websites
Australian Council for Educational Research
Australian National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER)
Beehive (the official site of the NZ Government) - Education Portfolio
Has the latest speeches, documents and press releases, as well as information about the associated ministers.
eLearn - NZ's Tertiary e-Learning Portal
e-Learnz - the NZ Consortium for e-Learning
ERIC - Education Resources Information Center
ERIC is the world's largest source of education information, with more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice.
HERDSA - Higher Education Research & Development Association of Australasia
And their journal - Higher Education Research & Development
International Center for Distance Learning
Includes a Literature Database containing bibliographic information on over 12,000 books, journal articles, research reports, conference papers, dissertations and other types of literature relating to all aspects of the theory and practice of distance education.
ITP - the Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics of NZ
The collective voice that represents 19 institutes of technology and polytechnics around the country.
Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics Quality
ITP Quality's mission is to provide an excellent quality assurance service to Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITPs) in New Zealand.
KiwiQuals
The New Zealand Register of Quality Assured Qualifications.
NZ Council for Educational Research (NZCER)
NZ Department of Labour
For research on education, training and employment
NZ Education Gazette
The official magazine of the education community, from the Ministry of Education.
NZ Ministry of Education
STEO - Services for Tertiary Education Providers (Ministry of Education)
Stuff - national Education news
Education news from the website for Fairfax Newspapers (includes Dominion Post and many other daily newspapers)
Teacherswork.ac.nz
This site is designed to support New Zealand Early Childhood, Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Teachers in their work. We aim to disseminate information that teachers might find useful with a specific focus on the New Zealand context.
Teaching & Learning Research Initiative
From the NZ Council for Educational Research
NZ Qualifications Authority
TEd - NZ's Tertiary Education Portal
Te Kete Ipurangi - the Online Learning Centre
An initiative of the Ministry of Education, TKI is a bilingual portal-plus web community which provides quality assured educational material for New Zealand teachers, school managers, and the wider education community.
Tertiary Advisory Monitoring Unit (TAMU)
Tertiary Education Commission
Oversees implementation of the government's tertiary education strategy.
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