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Early New Zealand Books . Works about traditional Maori society and culture and the earliest British settlements. In chapters online, includes enlargeable images. Around 225 texts currently available. Please note conditions of use. Provided by the University of Auckland.
www.enzb.auckland.ac.nz/

Kiwi Research Information Service (KRIS) If you wish to search or access all NZ university repositories from a single point, plus the smaller digital collections of Polytechnic Institutes not represented here, use the KRIS service provided by the National Library of New Zealand (Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa).
http://nzresearch.org.nz/

Lincoln University Research Archive A digital institutional repository for the research output of Lincoln University's staff and students. Lincoln is the South Island's "specialist land-based university", focussing on agriculture, the environment, life sciences and some commerce. The collection contains more than 3,200 items, as of March 2011. An Open Access multi-format archive, with PDF predominating for text.
http://researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz/dspace/

Massey Research Online Massey is the North Island's specialist university for agriculture, veterinary and life sciences, land & environmental studies, industrial innovation & distance education, with many additional disciplines. Massey's digital repository contains research theses and published work by Massey University students and academic staff, plus peer-reviewed material not published elsewhere. More than 1,700 items are held, as of March 2011, usually in PDF format.
http://muir.massey.ac.nz/

New Zealand Digital Library Collections available include historical documents, humanitarian and development information, computer science, technical reports and bibliographies, literary works, and magazines. New Zealand's history and culture online. A project of the University of Waikato, variously in HTML and PDF.
www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/library

New Zealand Electronic Text Centre Online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials - full-text books, manuscripts and journals, plus images. More than 1400 works are available here, including biography, literature, history, literary criticism, science and natural history. You may download and print text and images for your own personal and non-commercial use only. XML-based; a variety of formats may be available. That includes many in ePub, some PDF, Daisy, as well as HTML online.
www.nzetc.org/

Otago University Research Archive (OUR Archive) An archive to provide public access to the university's quality research outputs, both published and unpublished. Most commonly in PDF format. Note that not all items are available online in full-text. Materials include books, book chapters, discussion papers, journal articles, theses, working papers, and audio & video media. At the end of March 2011, OUR held some 340 items (mostly from 1990 onwards). From April 2011 the School of Business EPrints Archive is being merged with the OUR Archive, adding more than 900 additional items (dated from 1969 onwards). There are several other digital repositories at the University of Otago, notably Te Tumu (the School of Maori, Pacific & Indigenous Studies), which includes around 70 works from 1986 on. Te Tumu can be searched simultaneously with the central OUR archive.
http://otago.ourarchive.ac.nz/

New Papers Past Not exactly a book, but a fantastic written resource nevertheless. With Papers Past you can read first-hand accounts of past Kiwi history, uncover startling facts, hope to trace your local forebears or long-lost relatives, and track down the truth behind those persistent family legends.A research goldmine, Papers Past is an extensive though not complete collection of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals for the years 1839 to 1945. At the time of this posting it contains some 68 publications ranging from the Akaroa Mail to the West Coast Times, including many of the major newspapers, and the holdings continue to be expanded each month.You can search by exact names, terms and dates, or just browse by date, region or title. To save articles simply right click & save the image file, and note that you can print PDF versions of newspaper editions too.
www.paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast

There's also a link to some Maori newspapers ( the Maori Niupepa Collection) published between 1842 and 1932.
http://www.nzdl.org/niupepa

ResearchArchive @ Victoria (Te Pataka Korero) houses the public repository for research outputs from Victoria University of Wellington. As of March 2011, more than 1,400 items are available. In multi-format under DSpace.
http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/

Research Commons - University of Waikato A digital repository promoting and preserving the scholarly outputs of researchers at the University of Waikato. Offers free, open access to university research. Holding more than 4,300 items as of March 2011.
http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/

ResearchSpace@Auckland ResearchSpace is a digital repository or archive for University of Auckland digital theses and research materials. Browse it by Communities & Collections, Issue Date, Author, Title or Subject. Around 5150 items deposited as at March 2011.
http://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/

UC Research Repository A collection of book and chapters, selected theses, journal articles, conference papers and other research at the University of Canterbury, all in full-text. An open-access archive, containing over 5,000 items as at March 2011. Browse by date, author, title, subject, or community + collection type. Multi-format, uses DSpace.
http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/

ScholarlyCommons@AUT (Putunga Rangahau) is the central archive and repository for the long-term preservation of Auckland University of Technology research and scholarly output in digital formats. Offers open access to university research. At present contains theses and dissertations deposited with AUT University Library, plus a growing number of research papers. More than one thousand items are held, dating from 1999 onwards.
http://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/index.jsp

51 Scenic New Zealand Drives This 15 page, illustrated PDF format e-book offers brief descriptions of "51 Must-See Scenic Highlights of New Zealand." These drives are all from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch or Queenstown, and while a few are short, most are substantial (distances are included). Download from:
www.discovery-carhire.co.nz/scenic_drives_ebook.pdf

Small Business Failure Rates and the New Zealand Retail Sector by Chelsea Cox and Ed Vos. This 23-page academic paper (Ed Vos is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Waikato) examines this important subject for NZ business, with some surprising conclusions. In PDF format.
http://www.nzfc.ac.nz/archives/2004/Papers/docs/Cox%20and%20Vos.pdf

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