NZ Science Database

Much New Zealand scientific literature is available through the standard international databases like Web of Science, Medline and Biological Abstracts which cover not only research by New Zealanders and on New Zealand topics published in international journals but which index the major New Zealand journals as well. However not all useful research is published in journals - much of it appears in reports, theses, environmental impact statements and the like. This is often known as the "grey literature".

NZ SCIENCE (formerly also known as "SIRIS" and "STIX") is a comprehensive index of New Zealand Science, provided by The Crown Research Institutes, and The Royal Society of New Zealand. Because it is created from submissions from these institutions rather than
from indexing a set range of printed publications NZ Science has an impressively wide range of sources.

NZ Science is part of the Superindex collection and is indexed with a number of newspaper indexes.

This can be interesting but if you are searching for a term that is likely to appear frequently in the press - "kiwifruit" or "earthquake" for example - you should probably switch these sources off.

It is a good idea to extend the date range at the same time - you will notice that NZ Science contains records back to the 1840s!