Te Putunga Kōrero Mātauranga o Aotearoa

Finding keywords and key phrases
 

To find keywords,  type an ampersand (&) between each word

      school & transition
      maori & achievement

To find phrases (several words in order), just type them (you don’t need speech marks around them)

      Educational outcomes
      Formative assessment

Tip: we have used some precise phrases for sector descriptors and age descriptors
 

To find synonyms, you need to type a forward slash (/) between each one

      early childhood/preschool/pre-school/kindergarten/day care/daycare

Group synonyms with brackets if you’re adding another search term

      (early childhood/preschool/pre-school) & professional development

To find plurals, alternative spellings, etc, truncate with an asterisk (*)

      child* (finds child, children, child’s etc)

To find one term but exclude another term, type an exclamation mark (!) between the terms (a term is a key word or key phrase)

      disadvantage* !disadvantaged (finds disadvantage, disadvantages, but not disadvantaged)

Tip: For best results use more than one keyword or phrase.
 

Finding titles of theses

You don’t need to type the whole title. To find the theses titled: The socialisation of teachers into the culture of assessment you can...

You can type a phrase (several words in order)

      socialisation of teachers

Or you can type keywords (several words, not necessarily in order)

      socialisation & teachers
      teachers & culture & assessment

Finding authors

Type the author's surname first
Optional: follow their surname with their first name or truncated initials

      Hohepa
      Hohepa Margie

If you know some of the name but are not sure of the preferred form use asterisk eg Hohepa Marg*

      Hohepa M*

Or use the ampersand (&) between the author’s first and last names

      Hohepa & Margie

Finding full text only

To restrict your search to full text only, click the ‘I only want full text’ box  (under the Keywords box)

Finding doctoral level theses only

To restrict your search to Doctoral theses only, click the 'I only want Doctoral theses' box (under the keywords box)