A leading databse for research in architecture and art with full text access to 380 journals and 220 books and indexing for many more.Also contains a collection of 63,000 images.
Art & Architecture Complete has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes art scholars, artists, designers, college students, and general researchers. This database covers a wide variety of pertinent subjects, including antiques, art and art history, interior and landscape design, and much more.
More than 1000 great buildings from around the world and across history are listed below and illustrated on this web site and the Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM, with photographic images, architectural drawings, discussion, bibliography, architect info, and live 3D walkthrough computer models.
Published by the Getty Research Institute. An index of architecture and design literature with an American focus.
General databases
Google Scholar [Free]This link opens in a new windowGoogle Scholar searches academic publishers, professional societies and pre-print archives. Not all the results will be available online, however. Results may include citations to works that are not online, or items from databases that Unitec does not subscribe to. Online help for using Google Scholar.
Timeframes includes selected New Zealand and Pacific images from the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library, the research library within the National Library of New Zealand.
Images of New Zealand and the Pacific from the Alexander Turnbull Library (the research library within the National Library of New Zealand). Collections cover the social and natural history of New Zealand, the Pacific and Antarctica from the earliest European contact to the present. Also manuscripts, sheet music, maps, sound recordings, ephemera, photographs, cartoons, paintings, drawings and prints.
The New Zealand Official Yearbook has provided a comprehensive statistical picture of life in New Zealand from 1893 until 2010. ‘Handbooks’ of statistical information go back even further.
he indexing of references into the New Zealand Card Index began in the 1950s and closed in 1996. It indexes a range of sources including local and national newspapers, New Zealand periodicals, and books.
The main geographical focus is Auckland, but other New Zealand material is also included. view video The subject matter focuses on people, places and organisations. The index includes references to information on Auckland buildings, businesses and places, as well as obituaries, death notices and marriage notices, from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The journal of the NZIA was published under several titles (including Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute of Architects, Journal of the New Zealand Institute of Architects, NZIA Journal, New Zealand Architect, Architecture New Zealand) over the years and was not indexed anywhere in its early years. 3 Architecture Librarians at Victoria University of Wellington compiled an index of all the articles published in it from 1912- 1990.
this page covers articles from 1986-1990 see also https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/18545 for index of 1981-1985
More than 100,000 watercolours, drawings, sketchbooks, oil paintings and prints are in the collection. Most feature New Zealand scenes, people and events.
Many early pictures relate to Māori or their way of life, and the earliest days of European contact and settlement. Images also cover the development of early towns and cities, exploration, natural history and science, shipping, and wars.
The Drawings, Paintings and Prints collection also contains the New Zealand Cartoon Archive.
Australia/NZ Reference Centre is a large collection of regional full text including magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books. In addition to the leading Australia/NZ periodicals and international periodicals, it also includes full text biographies, image collection of photos, maps and flags.
Statistics New Zealand Tatauranga Aotearoa is a government department and New Zealand’s national statistical office. We are New Zealand's major source of official statistics, administer the Statistics Act 1975, and lead the Official Statistics System.
This site includes peer-reviewed and other research from universities, polytechnics, and research organisations throughout New Zealand. Includes theses and conference papers.
Index New Zealand indexes nearly 300 journals and newspapers. It is the key New Zealand database for social sciences, arts, humanities and general interest material, and indexes some South Pacific journals.
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