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Journal of the Polynesian Society

Founded in 1892, The Polynesian Society is a non-profit organization based at the University of Auckland. The Journal is available online from 1892 to 1959.

Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand

The Royal Society (known as the New Zealand Institute until 1933) was established in 1867 to assist a number of regional research societies publish papers and maintain a record of their activities. The Transactions and Proceedings is one of New Zealand's most important research publications.

If you know the journal title: first try a "journal title" search in the Library catalogue. You may get more than one result, depending on whether we have the print version, the online version, or both. Check what years/volumes we have:

• Print: see the details in red under "Library holds".
• Electronic: see the dates in the links under "Web access".

If you want to find articles on a specific topic, or by a specific author: you can search in one or more of the specialist databases we subscribe to.

Search across all databases at once.

Index New Zealand

If you want to find articles in New Zealand journals and magazines, Index New Zealand is a good place to start. Index New Zealand is the main database for finding New Zealand and/or Maori articles. It does not give you the full article, but will tell you which publication and issue it comes from. Then you will need to go and find an electronic or paper copy of the article from the library's holdings. If we don't hold it, you may be able to interloan it.

There are various ways of searching Index New Zealand. If you are starting with a topic, then you will need to do a keyword search.

A Keyword Relevance search will look for words located anywhere in the record. When more than one keyword is entered, the records retrieved will contain all of the keywords. Search results are displayed with the most relevant records appearing first.

Type in the word(s) or phrases you want.

Focus or expand your search

For effective searching, use special characters to focus or expand your search:

• Use ? after a term to truncate, eg: child? will retrieve child, childhood, children. The truncation symbol can also be used before and within words. (NB. The truncation character used in most other databases is *)
• Use quotation marks for phrases, eg: "yellow eyed penguin"
• In advanced search you can choose "as a phrase" from the dropdown box which will keep the keywords together in much the same way as the quotation marks do in the above example.