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Our Gale databases support you with up-to-date full-text magazines, newspapers, journals, periodicals, videos and podcasts on a range of topics.  These are free for library members. You will need your library card number to access.

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Databases on offer

Generosity New Zealand.

Generosity New Zealand

Generosity New Zealand is created and maintained by Generosity New Zealand. A Searchable, online database. Funding for community groups and organisations. From e.g. government, councils, service organisations, and statutory, philanthropic, and gaming trusts. Over a thousand schemes. About 2 new schemes per week.

Culinary Arts.

Culinary Arts

Culinary Arts offers a smorgasbord of information - more than five million articles from more than 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines, as well as book reference content.

Diversity Studies.

Diversity Studies

A must-have for social science, history, and liberal arts coursework, Gale OneFile: Diversity Studies explores cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community. This collection includes more than 2.7 million articles from 150 journals, updated daily.

Environmental Studies and Policy.

Environmental Studies and Policy

Environmental Studies and Policy is a digital resource that answers inquiries about environmental concerns with coverage of more than 5.4 million articles from more than 300 journals and book reference content.

Gardening and Horticulture.

Gardening and Horticulture

Gardening and Horticulture serves horticultural enthusiasts of all levels with more than 3.6 million articles from more than 100 journals, as well as more than 20 reference titles from Delmar, including Handbook of Flowers; Foliage and Creative Design; Computer Graphics for Landscape Architects; and more.

Home Improvement.

Home Improvement

Home Improvement puts the research of hobbyists and professionals alike on a solid foundation with more than 4.5 million articles from more than 200 home improvement-focused titles, covering topics including architectural techniques, tool, and material selection, zoning requirements, and others.

News.

News

This innovative full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, and many other fields. Gale OneFile: News provides access to more than 2,300 major world newspapers, and includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.  Includes News Limited and Fairfax newspapers.

Pop Culture Studies.

Pop Culture Studies

Pop Culture Studies provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyse and contribute to popular culture. The database offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, and art courses.

Popular Magazines.

Popular Magazines

Popular Magazines provides access to the most searched magazines across the InfoTrac products. All of the titles are selected based on actual publication searches performed by library patrons and the database includes many titles recommended by Bowker's "Magazines for Libraries."

Religion and Philosophy.

Religion and Philosophy

Discover a comprehensive collection of periodical content covering topics across a wide range of philosophies and religions. Researchers will gain valuable insight about the impact religion has had on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language. Updated daily, this library resource supports a broad range of topics from theological approaches to social issues.

Computer Science.

Computer Science

Computer Science provides access to leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries. The database includes more than 600 journals and periodicals, providing information on computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications, and the application of technology.

Fine Arts.

Fine Arts

Fine Arts places millions of articles at the fingertips of serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. The database includes over 500 journals, with more than 400 available in full text.

Smithsonian Collections Online.

Smithsonian Collections Online

Gale and the Smithsonian have partnered to give you a look behind the glass of the Smithsonian exhibits and collections. Smithsonian Collections Online delivers primary source content that's essential for today's researcher. The digitized materials within Smithsonian Collections Online span multidisciplinary topics for both research and education.

General Onefile.

General Onefile

General OneFile is a comprehensive general-interest periodical resource.  Most content in General OneFile is full-text with no embargo, and includes reference, newspaper, multimedia and audio content that complements the resource's robust collection of magazines and journals.

Entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is a comprehensive database that covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more. It combines authoritative periodical and reference content to support prospective and current entrepreneurs as well as business students. Experience an easy-to-browse interface mapped to four key stages - plan, fund, start, and manage - to fit your research needs at any point in your business's development.

Plan Builder.

Plan Builder

Plan Builder is a step-by-step online planning tool for starting, managing and optimizing a business or nonprofit. The program’s intuitive dashboard walks users through five areas of exploration in order to develop a business plan focused on long-term success. 

Biography.

Biography

Provides contextual information on the world's most influential people. Over 600,000 biographical entries cover a range of historically significant figures and present-day newsmakers.

Books and Authors.

Books and Authors

Gale Books and Authors offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics.

Global Issues.

Global Issues

This database supports global awareness. Authoritative content empowers learners to critically analyse and understand the most important issues of the modern world.

Australia and New Zealand.

Australia and New Zealand

Australia and New Zealand provides authoritative, full-text content with a regional focus, complemented by global news, reference, and multimedia coverage. The database features a variety of magazines, journals, news, and multimedia sources across academic disciplines and areas of interest, covering important issues and current events related to Australia and New Zealand.

Health and Wellness.

Health and Wellness

More than 1,000 medical journals, periodicals, and articles from more than 2,200 general-interest publications, medical newspapers, newsletters and news feeds. A broad collection of full-text reference works including The Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, The Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery and Medical Tests, The Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, The Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer, Medical Health Information Directory, The Medical and Health Information Directory and various Thomson Healthcare and Micromedex drug guides. Hundreds of streaming videos with transcripts from medical experts via Healthology, Illumistream, NBC and ORLive.

Military and Intelligence.

Military and Intelligence

Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and present military affairs. Updated annually, this library resource contains hand-selected content supporting key subject areas such as, governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more.

National Geographic Kids.

National Geographic Kids

Engage young students and broaden their horizons with reputable, authoritative, age-appropriate digital content that brings them the world in a way they’ve never seen before. National Geographic Kids will take them on amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space.

National Geographic Virtual Library.

National Geographic Virtual Library

Explore over a century of iconic images and fascinating narratives that capture the wonder of our planet and beyond. As the official journal of the nonprofit National Geographic Society, National Geographic magazine built its reputation delivering the highest-quality photojournalism and cartography in the world.

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