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New Zealand Index (Knowledge Basket)

A useful database of indexes relating to New Zealand science, industry, news. politics and fine arts. The New Zealand Index includes over 1.8 million current and historical records of indexed abstracts to business, scientific and news information.

The New Zealand Index database is useful for tracing New Zealand sources before other digital sources existed. It is strong on New Zealand science, industry, news, politics and fine arts.

Subjects: Arts, Biography, Business, Health, History, Law, Literature, Māori, Music, New Zealand, Science & technology

Audience: General public, Secondary students, Tertiary students

Content type: Newspapers, Magazines, Research articles

EPIC subscription options including The New Zealand Index: EPIC Packages 5, 6, 7, 11 & 12

The databases contains the full text of New Zealand Herald Family & Notices Classifieds are available from 2003 to the present, and indexes (not full text of articles) for:

  • Newzindex is an index of a range of New Zealand journals and newspapers from 1985 – 2006.
  • New Zealand Science has scientific abstracts dating back to 1840.
  • Newspaper Index is a selective index to New Zealand newspapers compiled by Parliamentary Library from 1989 –2003.
  • Index Auckland is an index compiled by Auckland City Libraries including coverage of community newspapers.
  • Index New Zealand (INNZ) is a selective index to New Zealand journals and newspapers complied by National Library from 1987 to the present.
  • New Zealand Woman’s Weekly Index of Names is an index of names mentioned 1932-1951.
  • INZART is an index to New Zealand Art compiled by University of Auckland Library.

More about New Zealand Index on their website

URLs for the New Zealand Index

Page last updated: 1 March 2010.