ProQuest Online Databases
Horowhenua Library Trust has joined with over 170 New Zealand Libraries to be a part of EPIC (Electronic Purchasing in Collaboration). EPIC gives you access to thousands of high quality electronic publications, including NZ and international full-text journals, newspapers, magazines, photographs and graphics.
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 | Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre - EBSCO The Reference Centre database gives you access to abstracts and articles from international, Australian, and New Zealand magazines and newspapers. It is an excellent resource for those requiring up-to-date world, Australian and New Zealand current events information. | Login for access outside the library |
 | Biography Resource Centre - Gale This database contains an extensive range of contemporary and historical biographies of notable people including some New Zealanders. It is searchable by name, nationality, and occupation. | Login for access outside the library |
 | Business and Industry A multi-industry database with a global focus on company, industry and product information. | Login for access outside the library |
| Business and Management Practices In depth information on the processes, methods and strategies of managing a business. | Login for access outside the library |
 | Contemporary Women's Issues - Gale This contains a huge range of articles and reports on women's issues from professional and popular journals, and newspapers. It can be also searched by subject, for example, gender equity. | Login for access outside the library |
 | Discovering Collection - Gale This comprehensive database allows for searching under a range of subjects including history, literature, geography, and biographies. There is also a multimedia gallery containing photographs, graphs, maps, and sound and video clips. | Login for access outside the library |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Search the online version of Encyclopædia Britannica - including Britannica's Student Encyclopædia, Elementary Encyclopædia for younger students, and the Britannica Concise Encyclopædia. Includes current events, pictures and links to relevant Internet resources. | Login for access outside the library |
 | Grove Art Search and explore the full-text of this authoritative dictionary of art. It covers visual arts from painting, to graphic arts, to architecture and more! | Login for access outside the library |
 | Grove Music Explore this full-text dictionary on all aspects of music worldwide - from classical to hip-hop and from baroque to blues. | Login for access outside the library |
 | Health and Wellness Resource Centre and Alternative Health module - Gale This database provides authoritative answers to health and medical questions from a huge range of over 700 health/medical journals and pamphlets. It covers topics like mainstream and alternative medicines, nutrition, diet, fitness, and disease. It also includes an online medical encyclopedia and links to relevant websites. | Login for access outside the library |
 | History Resource Centre - Modern World - Gale Search this database for 20th century history topics history relating to America. It features full text articles from over 100 history journals, and includes primary documents, maps, and images. | Login for access outside the library |
 | InfoTrac OneFile - Gale Containing 35 million articles and updated daily, InfoTrac is an ideal general research tool with huge topic coverage from contemporary art to science. Articles are available from a wide range of overseas magazines and newspapers. | Login for access outside the library |
 | Literature Resource Centre - Gale This database contains critical essays and biographical information on over 100,000 authors, both historical and contemporary. A superb and comprehensive resource for students. It also includes information on major New Zealand authors. | Login for access outside the library |
 | MasterFILE Premier - EBSCO This collection provides full text access to articles from over 2000 major international publications such as Time, Newsweek, and New Scientist. It also includes reference and travel works, image collection, biographies and book reviews. Covering virtually every subject area, MasterFILE is ideal for general research enquiries. | Login for access outside the library |
 | Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - Gale Useful database for exploring popular social issues. Opposing Viewpoints is ideal for those wanting information covering both sides of contemporary issues like the GE debate. Includes topical overviews and point-of-view articles. An excellent resource for those wishing to do in-depth investigations about major contentious topics. | Login for access outside the library |
 | Oxford English Dictionary A searchable online version of the Oxford English Dictionary. Includes the full text of the 20-volume Second Edition, 45,000 new and revised words resulting from the editorial revision programme and at least 2,500 additional new and revised words every 3 months. | Login for access outside the library |
 | PressDisplay Now, you can get your favorite newspaper anywhere in the world on the date of publication. 1500 internationally-recognized newspapers from 90 countries in 45 different languages available onscreen in their original layout. | Login for external access outside the library |
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 | Student Resource Center - College Edition Expanded- Gale The Student Resource centre provides cross-curricular information suitable for senior secondary school students. Students can search topics including history, literature, geography, and biographies. Also available is a multimedia gallery containing photographs, graphs, maps, and sound and video clips. | Login for access outside the library |
| TableBase Provides access to thousands of hard-to-find tables of data for more than 90 industries. | Login for access outside the library |
 | Virtual Reference Suite Explore a collection of encyclopedias, almanacs and reference sources. Subjects include health, war, pollution, history, space science, maths, occult, food and fashion. | Login for access outside the library |