Library Search
Key Databases and Journals
- DigitalNZ This link opens in a new window
Explore over 34 million open access digital items from more than 200 partners throughout New Zealand, such as libraries, museums, galleries, government departments, the media, and community. Browse by item type, copyright usage conditions, content partner, and other filters.
- DigitalPasifik This link opens in a new window
A large public digital collection containing digital images, artworks, audio files, videos, and ebooks that can be browsed by Island, including smaller Pacific Islands such as Yap, Kosrae, and Tokelau. Users can discuss content in contribution to Indigenous research methodology. Part of the Pacific Virtual Museum Project and implemented by Te Puna Mātauranga: The National Library of New Zealand in collaboration with the National Library of Australia.
- ETV This link opens in a new window
ETV is the largest online video platform for educators in New Zealand with over 150,000 videos recorded or live from over 55 freeview, international and SKY channels.
- Hawaii Climate Data Portal This link opens in a new window
Visualise and export climate datasets for Hawai'i. Contains archival documents, rainfall atlases, moon calendars, cultural resources and sea level visualisations.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Access to archival issues of journals with coverage usually ending three to five years before present. Back issues of over 1500 journals in the arts, humanities, science, and social scienceswith links to current issues available in Project Muse.
- Learning Ground: Indigenous Education Research Database This link opens in a new window
The latest publications focusing on Indigenous education, spanning early childhood, post-school education, adult learning, encompassing areas such as cultural diversity, parent and community engagement, wellbeing, identity and oral language.
- Pacific Data Hub This link opens in a new window
A central repository of data about the Pacific and for the Pacific. Key areas include population statistics, fisheries science, climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and resilience, conservation of plant genetic resources for food security, public health surveillance and human rights.
- Pacific Data Hub This link opens in a new window
A central repository of data about the Pacific and for the Pacific. Key areas include population statistics, fisheries science, climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and resilience, conservation of plant genetic resources for food security, public health surveillance and human rights.
- Pacific Environment Data Portal This link opens in a new window
Over 18,000 geographic, spatial and environmental datasets of the Pacific region, with access to national environment datasets and environment policies of 17 Pacific countries.
- PacLII (Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute) This link opens in a new window
The Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (PacLII) provides free access to legal information gathered from countries in the South Pacific.
- Pofatu This link opens in a new window
A database of archaeological sources, artefacts and geochemical compositions. Utlising geochemical fingerprinting and creating provenance studies to improve the way we view archaeological sites in the Pacific.
- Te Papa Collections / Kohinga Ipurangi This link opens in a new window
Information on almost 800,000 artworks, objects and specimens from Te Papa’s collections, covering Taonga Māori, Pacific Cultures, History, Photography, Art, Botany and Zoology. These items are complemented by over 190,000 images, with over 60,000 available for high resolution download.
- Ulukau This link opens in a new window
One of the largest open access databases of Hawai'i and Pacific materials containing: Music; books; curriculum materials; and photographs. Developed at the University of Waikato.
- Ngā Taonga Sound & VisionThe audiovisual archive of Aotearoa New Zealand.
- Contemporary Pacific (Online)By the University of Hawai’i Press, the Contemporary Pacific covers a wide range of disciplines with the aim of providing comprehensive coverage of contemporary developments in the entire Pacific Islands region and the global Pacific diaspora. It features refereed, readable articles that examine social, economic, political, ecological, literary, and cultural topics, along with political reviews, book and media reviews, resource reviews, and a dialogue section with interviews and short essays. Each issue highlights the work of one or more Pacific Islander artists from the year 2000.
- Hawaiian Journal of HistoryContains original articles on the history of Hawai‘i, Polynesia, and the Pacific. Includes articles on a variety of subjects; illustrations; book reviews; notes; and a bibliography of recent Hawaiiana titles of historical interest.
- He Puna Kōrero: Journal of Māori and Pacific DevelopmentPublished by The University of Waikato (2001-2010), He Puna Kōrero: Journal of Māori and Pacific Development publishes papers in all areas of Māori and Pacific Development, including research reports on the political, social, cultural, linguistic and educational development of Māori and Pacific peoples. The aim of the journal is to provide a forum for writers expressing their views on Māori and Pacific development and to represent matters of concern in the development of Māori and Indigenous development. The journal also includes short creative works such as songs and poems as well as book reviews and notification of conferences and meetings.
- Journal of Pacific HistoryA leading refereed journal dedicated to research concerning the Pacific Islands, their peoples and their pasts from prehistory to the present. Contains articles on political, economic, religious and cultural history, analysis of contemporary developments, critical surveys and comment. Also includes primary documents, notes on source materials, reviews and review essays on books, exhibitions and other media.
- Journal of Pacific StudiesThe Journal of Pacific Studies (JPacS) is a multi-disciplinary journal that focuses on development issues. Since development issues are a key concern in the Pacific the Journal of Pacific Studies focuses on such contemporary concerns. It is a locally generated area studies journal for the South Pacific which gives primary attention to developmental, economic, historical, geographical and political issues with current investigations in The University of the South Pacific Region and beyond. Publications from 1975.
- OceaniaA social and cultural anthropological focus, relating to the peoples of Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia and insular southeast Asia. Mainly papers resulting from sustained ethnographic research.
- Pacific AffairsPeer-reviewed, independent, and interdisciplinary scholarly journal focussing on important current political, economic, and social issues throughout Asia and the Pacific. Each issue has new articles and 40+ book reviews.
- Pacific EcologistIssues covered include religion and philosophy on the environmental crisis, free trade, nuclear threats, genetic engineering, biofuels, peak oil, and food and agricultural security. Some articles are available on their website.
- Te Kaharoa: The Journal on Indigenous Pacific IssuesTe Kaharoa is an open access and peer reviewed journal dedicated to promoting Māori and Indigenous scholars, artists, filmmakers, and creative writers. Curated by students and staff of Te Ara Poutama at Auckland University of Technology, Te Kaharoa publishes writings in Te Reo Māori and English. The journal includes, but is not limited to, articles, reflections, commentaries, creative works, film and book reviews, and digital and sound recordings of Indigenous communities from Aotearoa, Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, and the world.
- Writing the New WorldIndigenous poets Mere Taito, Essay May Ranapiri and Alice Te Punga Somerville read poems that respond to Indigenous archives... in conversation with podcast host Wanda Ieremia-Allan.
- NZCER Journals Online This link opens in a new window
NZCER Journals Online provides access to Set: Research Information for Teachers, Assessment Matters, Curriculum Matters and Early Childhood Folio. These titles cover research in early childhood education, curriculum and assessment in education research, policy and practice.
- FALAH: Research and Innovation for Family Farming, Lifestyle and Health in The PacificA project of the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme. Publishes the work of 14 institutions across the Pacific Islands, Australia and Europe.
- In Our Language: Journal of Pacific ResearchIn our Language: Journal of Pacific Research (IOL) publishes existing peer reviewed and published research, reviews, poems, short stories and essays that have been directly translated (typically from English) to a Pacific language.
- MAI JournalMAI Journal is an open access journal that publishes multidisciplinary peer-reviewed articles around Indigenous knowledge and development in the context of Aotearoa New Zealand. Launched in 2012, MAI Journal evolved from MAI Review and complements AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, which is also published by Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga. MAI Journal is also supported by MASS: the Māori Association of Social Science.
- Pacific Health DialogThe Pacific Health Dialog (PHD) is the Journal of Pacific Research for the Pacific region. It is the only Medline listed medical and public health journal published specifically for Pacific Island countries, with a particular focus on Community Health and Clinical Medicine.
- Waka Kuaka : The Journal of the Polynesian Society'The Journal of the Polynesian Society' has been renamed as 'Waka Kuaka: The Journal of the Polynesian Society', heralding a new direction for the journal metaphorically reimagined as the waka kuaka 'godwit on the wing' traversing the Pacific. These new directions are explored here within this vision of the waka kuaka as a bird that symbolises collective vision and purpose. The authors, as members of the Council of the Polynesian Society including the editor of the journal, reflect on the history of the journal and discuss what this change means going forward, finally calling on scholars in and of the Pacific to fly with us as part of this new journey.
- Waikato Journal of Education: Te Hautaka Mātauranga o WaikatoThe Waikato Journal of Education is a well-regarded peer-reviewed journal. Since the first publication in 1995, the journal has made a major contribution to the scholarship on a wide range of topics in the field of education, particularly issues connected to curriculum, learning and teaching. Papers have included reports on educational research and practice and viewpoints on education policies, theories and practices. Issues often have a special focus.
Languages and Revitalisation
Haia! An introduction to Vagahau Niue: Teachers' guide and support materials.Call Number: Juvenile Literature ; 499.484 HAIISBN: 9780478341232Publication Date: 2010This is a great teaching resource starting at Unit 1: Introductions and up to Unit 20: Ako Niue - Fiafiaaga- Mana of the Pacific: Wisdom from across Oceania by Call Number: Mātangireia Pacific Level 4 ; PN6519.P28 M68 2021ISBN: 1988550327Publication Date: 2021Mana of the Pacific: Wisdom from across Oceania' brings you inspirational proverbs matched with beautiful photographs that highlight the strength, resilience, wisdom and innovation of people from Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Tokelau, Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Federated States of Micronesia, French Polynesia, Hawaii, Kiribati, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Niue. This collection of proverbs highlight the value of these cultures, knowledge and ways of being, and a set of core values that underpin people's ways of life across this region.
- A new Fijian grammar by Call Number: Mātangireia Pacific Level 4 ; PL6235 .C45 1973Publication Date: 1973
A new Rotuman dictionary : An English-Rotuman wordlist by Call Number: General Collection Level 3 ; PL6297 .Z5N48 1998ISBN: 9820201284Publication Date: 1998- Tau hatakiaga ma e vagahau Niue: The Niue language guidelines.Call Number: Teaching Resources Library LC ; PL6481.C67 2012ISBN: 0790341557Publication Date: 2012Perfect the art of teaching the Niue language in English with this resource created by the Niue community and the New Zealand Ministry for Education.
- Tau lologo Niue ma e tau aoga i Niu Silani: Niuean songs.Call Number: Juvenile Literature ; 781.6299480083 TAUISBN: 0790308363Publication Date: 2005A collection of Niuean songs intended for schools to use with students in years 1-10, including compact disc, notes for teachers, lyrics, and information about each song.
Tuvaluan by ISBN: 1134974728Publication Date: 2002-09-11This grammar is the first detailed description of the structure of Tuvaluan, one of the least well-documented languages of Polynesia. Tuvaluan pays particular attention to discourse and sociolinguistics factors at play in the structural organization of the language.
- Tattoo my mouth: Samoan language survival in Australia byCall Number: Journals Level 3 ; GN301.A465Publication Date: 2022Indigenous people experience their worlds simultaneously through and because of language itself. To examine the relationship between language and place, we evaluate the current discourse and state of gagana Samoa (Samoan language) in Australia. As Samoan researchers, we situate ourselves accordingly by drawing on our language accounts and those of others in the diaspora. By focusing on these talanoaga-stories, sharing, and discussions across Queensland and Victoria, Australia, the role and value of gagana Samoa is reinforced through maintaining, developing and ensuring its survival for present and future generations. In this article, language survival is framed in how (re)connection is mobilised and articulated among this community. Our article shows the value this cohort place on their language, and the need for it to be sustained and passed on to the next generation.
- Fakaako e Vagahau Niue: Learn Niue Language AppNote for students
Download the Fakaako e Vagahau Niue app on Google Play or the Apple Store. This is your own pocket guide to the Niue pronunciation of any word you can think of. This app synthesizes reading and listening, tap on a word, a song, or a phrase to hear it spoken by a member of the Niue community. - Gagana Tokelau: Matāeke o Akoakoga a TokelauThe Tokelau Department of Education has a mission to nurture each and every child to be competent and to reach their potential with the support of the teachers and staff at school, parents, families, and the community through an improved quality of education and service delivery.
- Ministry for Pacific Peoples — Fijian Language WeekResources for Fijian Language Week.
- Ministry for Pacific Peoples — Tokelau Language WeekResources for Tolekau Language Week.
- Tohi Vagahau Niue: Niue Language DictionaryA digital dictionary transcribed and developed by Niue researcher Nogiata Tukimata from Wolfgang Sperlich's Niue dictionary manuscripts. Use the search bar to search for words, idioms, phrases and proverbs.
- Writing the New WorldIndigenous poets Mere Taito, Essay May Ranapiri and Alice Te Punga Somerville read poems that respond to Indigenous archives... in conversation with podcast host Wanda Ieremia-Allan.
- Writing the New WorldThis is the youtube channel for the 'Writing The New World' podcast.
‘Writing the New World’ is a research project led by Assoc Prof Alice Te Punga Somerville (Te Ātiawa, Taranaki) at the Faculty of Māori & Indigenous Studies, University of Waikato; the research is funded by the Marsden Fund.
The project focuses on writing published by Indigenous people connected to New Zealand, Australia, Fiji and Hawai’i between 1900 and 1975. Some people published books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and plays before 1975, but most of this writing was published in periodicals: magazines, newspapers, journals.
Sixteen Indigenous researchers have worked with Alice on this journey of connecting with the massive, multilingual and rich legacy of writing in the Pacific region, and the podcast profiles their work and thinking.
- Samoan Language ChannelThis channel was created to assist you in learning the Gagana Samoa.
- First PhD in Samoan language published in AotearoaMuliagatele Vavaō Fetui is an educator who has spent his life passing down his knowledge of the Samoan language and culture.
At the age of 78 he's added another feather to his cap by graduating with his PhD in Pacific Studies from Auckland University.
What makes this extra special is that his was only the second doctoral thesis ever written in Samoan, and the first outside of Samoa itself.
Muliagatele Vavaō Fetui talks to Jesse about his journey.
History
An Indigenous ocean: Pacific essays by ISBN: 9781991033604Publication Date: 2023Spanning a wide range of topics, from race and migration to Pacific studies and empire, these essays demonstrate Salesa’s remarkable scholarship. Bridging the gap between academic disciplines and cultural traditions, Salesa locates Pacific peoples always at the centre of their stories. An Indigenous Ocean is a pivotal contribution to understanding the history and culture of Oceania.- An introduction to Polynesian anthropology by Call Number: Mātangireia Level 4 ; GN670.B4 no.187 1971Publication Date: 1971
Ocean As Method: Thinking with the maritime by ISBN: 1003279759Publication Date: 2022-04-21Ocean as Method presents a new way of thinking about the humanities and the social sciences. It explores maritime connections in social and humanistic research and puts forward an alternative to national histories and area studies. As global warming and rising sea levels ring alarm bells across the world, the chapters in the volume argue that it is time to think through oceans to realign discourses which better understand our future.- Oceanic Histories by ISBN: 1108503764Publication Date: 2017-11-27Oceanic Histories is the first comprehensive account of world history focused not on the land but viewed through the 70% of the Earth's surface covered by water. Leading historians trace the history of the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans and seas, from the Arctic and the Baltic to the South China Sea and the Sea of Japan/Korea's East Sea, over the longue durée. Individual chapters trace the histories and the historiographies of the various oceanic regions, with special attention given to the histories of circulation and particularity, the links between human and non-human history and the connections and comparisons between parts of the World Ocean. Showcasing oceanic history as a field with a long past and a vibrant future, these authoritative surveys, original arguments and guides to research make this volume an indispensable resource for students and scholars alike.
- Our sea of islands by Publication Date: 1994Challenges the belittling idea that the countries of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia are too small, poor and isolated to develop any meaningful degree of autonomy. Suggests that this overlooks cultural movement and exchange in the pre-European world of Oceania, and the contemporary global movement of Pacific Islanders.
Sweat and salt water by Call Number: Mātangireia Pacific Level 4 ; DU17 .T43 2021ISBN: 9780824889036Publication Date: 2021-08-31This volume features a selection of Teaiwa's scholarly and creative contributions captured in print over a professional career cut short at the height of her productivity. The collection honors her legacy in various scholarly fields, including Pacific studies, Indigenous studies, literary studies, security studies, and gender studies, and on topics ranging from militarism and tourism to politics and pedagogy. It also includes examples of Teaiwa's poems.
Tangata o le Moana: New Zealand and the people of the Pacific by Call Number: Mātangireia Reference Level 4 ; DU424.5 .P6T14 2012ISBN: 9781877385728Publication Date: 2012-05-01Aotearoa New Zealand has been shaped by a long and dynamic history with the other islands of the Pacific, their people and their cultures. Today, it is home to the largest population of Pacific Islanders anywhere in the world. The first of its kind, this illustrated history tells the fresh and surprising story of over a thousand years of Pacific peoples in New Zealand - a millennium of exploration, encounter and cultural exchange - from the legendary feats of exploration and migration undertaken by the ancestors of modern Maori to the politically explosive dawn raids of the 1970s to Tana Umaga becoming the first PI captain of the All Blacks. Uniquely, Tangata o le Moana puts the Pacific Island viewpoint at its centre, using all new primary sources and a rich cache of oral history material to tell the stories of our shared past. Across fifteen chapters written by leading historians and writers, every aspect of this history is touched on, from migration to tourism, economics to politics, sport to the arts. The book is lavishly illustrated with hundreds of historical and contemporary photos, archival documents, specially commissioned maps and beautiful images of evocative museum objects. Tangata o le Moana is a rigorously researched, but human and colourful, record of the story of New Zealand as a Pacific place.
We are the ocean by ISBN: 9780824865542Publication Date: 2008-01-29We Are the Ocean is a collection of essays, fiction, and poetry by Epeli Hau'ofa, whose writing over the past three decades has consistently challenged prevailing notions about Oceania and prescriptions for its development. He highlights major problems confronted by the region and suggests alternative perspectives and ways in which its people might reorganize to relate effectively to the changing world.
- The oceanic imaginary byPublication Date: 2001
- Our sea of islands byPublication Date: 1994Challenges the belittling idea that the countries of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia are too small, poor and isolated to develop any meaningful degree of autonomy. Suggests that this overlooks cultural movement and exchange in the pre-European world of Oceania, and the contemporary global movement of Pacific Islanders.
- Pacific Data Fale o AotearoaPresents interactive visualisations about Pacific People living in New Zealand.
- Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New ZealandTe ara in Maori means the pathway. This enyclopedia offers many pathways to understanding New Zealand. When complete, it will be a comprehensive guide to the country's peoples, natural environment, history, culture, economy, institutions and society.
- Children of the revolution byCall Number: Mātangireia Level 4 ; HM881 .C55 2008Publication Date: 2008Explores the unique lives of five children born to leaders of the Protest Movement in New Zealand, key figures who helped to shape the consciousness and socio-political landscape of Aotearoa during the 70's and 80's.
- Untold Pacific HistoryA dynamic and often provocative account of NZ's relationship with the Pacific.
Education
Critical conversations in kaupapa Māori by Call Number: Mātangireia Level 4 ; H62.5.N45 H67 2017ISBN: 9781775503286Publication Date: 2017This collection furthers knowledge about kaupapa Māori by examining its effects over the decades, identifying and discussing its conventions and boundaries and reflecting on kaupapa Māori in social and educational research and practice.
Understanding Oceania: Celebrating the University of the South Pacific and its collaboration with The Australian National University by ISBN: 9781760462895Publication Date: 2019- Weaving the mat of Māori and Pacific learner success: Report on the data-informed initiatives to inform Māori and Pacific student achievement project by ISBN: 1988562414Publication Date: 2022This project reflects the collective commitment
to positive change within the University of
Waikato for Māori and Pacific students.
- Culture and the Curriculum in the South Pacific byPublication Date: 1993
- Of Waves, Winds and Wonderful Things: A Decade of Rethinking Pacific EducationSelected papers from the 2011 Vaka Pasifiki Education Conference
- A Relational Approach to Learning Environments: Learning from Pacific Wisdom byPublication Date: 2022
- Waikato Journal of Education: Te Hautaka Mātauranga o WaikatoThe Waikato Journal of Education is a well-regarded peer-reviewed journal. Since the first publication in 1995, the journal has made a major contribution to the scholarship on a wide range of topics in the field of education, particularly issues connected to curriculum, learning and teaching. Papers have included reports on educational research and practice and viewpoints on education policies, theories and practices. Issues often have a special focus.
- Ako Aotearoa: From Good to Great: The 10 Habits of phenomenal educators for Pacific learners – Full reportThe Full Report includes 11 case studies describing the phenomenal educators involved in the project. It outlines the methodology, which is built around an Appreciative Inquiry approach. It features student talanoa about their experiences with phenomenal educators and introduces the “Ten Habits’ displayed by those educators.
- NZQA: Takiala Pasifika 2020-2023Information about the Takiala Pasifika, our action plan for Pacific learner success.
- Pacific Data Fale o AotearoaPresents interactive visualisations about Pacific People living in New Zealand.
- Pasifika Education CommunityReports and resources for the classroom. Provided by Te Kete Ipurangi (TKI).
- TapasāThis explores a cultural competency framework used by the Ministry of Education named Tapasā. Here you can learn about effective teaching and learning outcomes for Pacific learners.
- Talanoa With Dr. TThe educational and conversation-based Talanoa with iTaukei academic and researcher Dr. Tarisi Vunidilo speaks with guests about Fiji history, language & culture, Indigenous determination, climate awareness and the Pacific. Dr. T reminds us that academic publishing isn't only about books and articles, but also connecting, communicating, creating, singing, reminiscing, and recalling.