Nelson City Council

On this page you will find the online resources under the following topics, with quick links below to take you directly to each section.

• Library databases
• NZ news sources
• NZ archives and indexes

For information about print holdings and researching local newspapers, see the news media research page.

Library research databases

To access these outside the library you will need to enter your library barcode number.

• PressDisplay
  Access the full-text (actual page views) of newspapers from New Zealand and from around the world. Includes all Fairfax titles and some others.

• Australia/ New Zealand Reference Centre
  Includes the full-text of most New Zealand newspapers and newswires from 1997, plus Australian and other national news sources. Key content: The Nelson Mail, New Zealand Herald,    The Press , Dominion Post

• Proquest - Academic Research Library includes the full-text of a range of national (mainly UK and US) newspapers (eg Financial Times) and news magazines. Includes a service which indexes and abstracts U.S. national newspapers, plus the fulltext of a range of news magazines (eg Newsweek).

• Gale General Onefile - includes newswires and indexes of mainly US newspapers. 

Other key sources

• Christchurch Library's Index of news sources

New Zealand 

News

• Australia/ New Zealand Reference Centre
  includes the full-text of most New Zealand newspapers and newswires, plus Australian and other national news sources.
• MSN New Zealand 
• New Zealand Herald 
• Radio New Zealand news  
• Scoop  
• Stuff
  Access current (selected) news from Fairfax's New Zealand news papers: includes Dominion Post, The Press, Waikato Times and Auckland news from Fairfax's free Auckland papers, Sunday News,Sunday Star Times, Marlborough Express, Manawatu Standard, Nelson Mail, Southland Times , Taranaki Daily News  and Timaru Herald
  And Korero (archived Maori news) 
• TVNZ news 

Nelson Region

• ChannelN -  . Videoclips of current Nelson happenings, hosted on YouTube
• Fresh FM - local radio 
• Mainland Television  - local television
• Nelson Mail
• Newstalkzb - radio - provides local bulletins
• Classic Hits - radio - provides local bulletins
• G.B. Weekly - Golden Bay Weekly
• Papers Past 
  • Nelson Evening Mail(1866-1909),
  • Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle(1842-1874)
  • Colonist(1890-1910)
  • Marlborough Express(1868-1900)
  • Grey River Argus (1866-1920)
  • Inangahua Times (1877-1900)
  • West Coast Times (1865-1909) 

NZ Newspaper archives and indexes

Full text archives

• New Zealand Gazette (from 2000)
• Nieupepa - Historic Maori newspapers
• Papers Past 
  Contains more than one million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The collection covers the years 1839 to 1920 and includes publications from all regions of New Zealand.

Indexes - National

• Find NZArticles - includes newspaper indexes from Auckland, Napier, Christchurch and Dunedin, as well as national sources.
• Index New Zealand  - index of New Zealand newspapers and journals from approx. 1985
• New Zealand Index - index and abstracts of a range of New Zealand serials, including News sources 1985

Indexes - Local

• Hamilton Newspaper Index  
• Kapiti coast newspaper index 
• Newspaper collections - North Shore, Waitakere and Rodney
• Palmerston North newspaper index  
• Papers - Christchurch Papers Index
• Rotorua newspaper index 
• Southern Regional newspaper index - Dunedin and Otago
• Waimakariri newpaper index 
• Wellington newspaper indexes

International News

• ABC News (Australia)
  
• Australian Newspapers: historic Australian newspapers 1803-1954
  
• BBC News (UK) 
• CNN (US) 
• Guardian Weekly (UK) 
• International Herald Tribune (France) 
• Reuters (International)
• Time.Com (Time online edition)

For other overseas news sources see Christchurch City Libraries newspaper pages.