Recommended Reading 
Carter, Ian, David Craig and Steve Matthewman, eds. 2004. Almighty Auckland? Palmerston North: Dunmore Press. Library copies
Planning a Library Research Strategy
1. Analyse the essay question and decide what information you will need to answer it.
2. You can begin your research using the e-Reference books to get basic introductions and definitions of key sociological concepts, such as class and ethnicity.
3. Continue reading from sources such as the course text Almighty Auckland?.
4. You can then search for more books in The Catalogue.
5. Some information is not in books, but in journal articles. Online indexes or databases will help you locate the relevant articles.
Electronic Reference Books
You can begin your research using the following e-Reference Books, to get basic introductions and definitions of key sociological concepts, such as class and ethnicity.
Reference books are an excellent place to start your research. You should then go on to read more in-depth journal articles and books.
Crampton, Peter, Clare Salmond, and Russell Kirkpatrick. 2004. Degrees of Deprivation in New Zealand: An Atlas of Socioeconomic Difference. 2nd ed. Auckland: David Bateman. Library copies
The NZDep index was created from data from the Census of Population and Dwellings.
Johnson, Allan G. 2000. The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology. 2nd ed. Malden: Blackwell. Library copies
Ritzer, George, ed. 2007. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Malden: Blackwell. Library copies
Scott, John, and Gordon Marshall, eds. 2005. Oxford Dictionary of Sociology. 3rd ed, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Library copies
Ministry for Culture and Heritage, 2005. Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
Smelser, Neil J., and Paul B. Baltes, eds. 2001. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. Oxford: Elsevier Science. Library copies
The Catalogue
Keyword Searches
Tips for Keyword searching:
- Use the truncation symbol * to find variant word endings
Search for ethnic* to find ethnic, ethnicity, ethnicities
- Search for phrases in quotation marks
"west auckland"
- Search for synonyms and related terms:
manukau or "south auckland"
Keywords for searching
New Zealand, Auckland, specific regions and suburbs:
Mt Roskill, Manukau, Waitakere, etc.
Ethnic, ethnicity, ethnicities.
General and specific groups
Maori, Pakeha, Samoans, Indians, etc.
migrants, immigrants, refugees
Race, culture, community, biculturalism, multi-culturalism
Subject Headings
Databases & Articles
A database is an index of the contents of journals, and some databases have the full text journal articles.
Index New Zealand (INNZ) An index with abstracts of 300 New Zealand journals and newspapers.
Index New Zealand will give you a list of articles about a topic. It doesn't include the actual articles. When you get a list of references, you then have to return to the Catalogue to find out if we have the journals in which the articles are published, and where in the Library they are located. Sometimes this will lead us to an online version of the article.
FindNZarticles includes Index New Zealand plus other indexes of newspapers and book chapters.
Some databases do include the full-text articles. Some examples are Expanded Academic for international publications, and Newztext or the Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre for local content.
Example of an Index New Zealand database search
These searches give you a list of journal articles about Auckland which mention the word ethnic, ethnicity, ethnicities, etc. These are all in New Zealand publications including newspapers, popular magazines, and academic journals.
This search is restricted to research journals, not popular magazines or newspapers.
This is one of the references found with that search:
You now need to return to The Catalogue to locate the source journal, New Zealand Population Review. Tip: put the journal title in "double quotation marks" to find the exact title.
- How can I get the full text of an article if it is not available in the database I am searching?
Some databases such as Sociological Abstracts do not include links to the full text of the article. Use the  button to find if we have the journal available online or to search The Catalogue for the hard-copy journal in the Library.
- What about Index New Zealand? It doesn't have a Find Full Text button.
The Find Full Text button is a handy short-cut to find journal articles, but you can't use it with Index New Zealand. Instead you have to go to The Catalogue and search for the journal yourself. Look for the journal name, but don't search for the author or article title as you won't find them listed in the catalogue.
Statistics
- New Zealand Official Yearbook
The Yearbook is a very good starting place for statistical information. Library copies
- NZSTATS
New Zealand statistics sources.
Referencing and Plagiarism
The Chicago Manual of Style Online
ReferenŠite Academic referencing resource
Honesty and integrity are valued in all academic activities at The University of Auckland. This website provides information about the key principles and practices underlying academic honesty, and advice and resources: Academic Honesty and Plagiarism.
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