Resources and facilities

Newspaper and Print Archive and Newspaper Clippings Archive

The Department maintains a significant collection of print material which is available to staff and graduate students of the Department.

Prior to extensive full text computer databases and indexing, the Department maintained a collection of newspaper clippings. The collection runs from 1966 up to December 1997.

Articles from newspapers (mainly The New Zealand Herald) are marked with the date, page, and source, and placed together in plastic envelopes according to our own subject classification system. These envelopes are stored in archival quality boxes in a temperature controlled room in the Arts Building.

For enquiries about print materials archives consult the Department office or politics@auckland.ac.nz.

Journals

The Department holds hardcopy and online subscriptions to a range of academic and popular journals.
For access to these journals please contact the Departmental Coordinator, Glenda Stenhouse, at g.stenhouse@auckland.ac.nz or the Political Studies Subject Librarian, Musarrat Begum, at m.begum@auckland.ac.nz.

Reference texts

The Department keeps a small number of texts for reference purposes. These include:

• Hansard
• New Zealand Official Yearbook
• New Zealand Government Directory
• Directory of Official Information
• Tables of New Zealand Acts and Ordinances and Statutory Regulations in Force
• New Zealand Census publications

For access to reference texts please contact the Department office or politics@auckland.ac.nz.

Chapman/Hunt Archive

The Rt Hon Jonathan Hunt, through the late Professor Bob Chapman, has contributed many useful parliamentary and government documents to the Department over the years.

All enquiries or requests to access the archive should be directed to the Department office or politics@auckland.ac.nz.

New Zealand Foreign Policy Research Archive

This archive is managed by the Working Group on New Zealand Foreign Policy Research of the Department of Political Studies. The archive’s aim is to raise the status of New Zealand foreign policy analysis, teaching, research and publishing, and to mentor their greater quantity and quality.

For more information on the archive see the New Zealand Foreign Policy Research Archive

To search the Archive visit NZFPRA search engine

The Robert and Noeline Chapman Audio-Visual Archive

The Political Studies Department archives New Zealand television and radio news bulletins and current affairs programmes. These holdings are kept in the Robert and Noeline Chapman Audio-Visual Archive.

The archive is administered by Departmental Research Assistants and located in 10 Grafton Rd. It is accessible only to graduate students in the Political Studies Department. Students from other Departments must apply to the HoD for permission to use the Archive; their home department may be charged costs and access is not guaranteed.

Access to the archive:

• Access to holdings for research purposes can be obtained by approaching your supervisor/lecturer and asking him or her to discuss your requirements with the Research Assistant. A letter of introduction or a telephone call from your lecturer/supervisor is appreciated.
• The Research Assistant may record material for your research that is not normally recorded for the Archive. Notice must be given for such requests and it must be demonstrated that such requests are necessary for your research. The Research Assistant cannot guarantee that planned recordings will always succeed.
• You may be asked to assist the Research Assistant with research into dates, programme details etc, to enable your work to be done on schedule or to be done at all.
• The Political Studies Department may require payment for tape stock used or for other expenses.
• You may be required to sign a declaration for copyright purposes about your proposed use of Archive resources.

View the holdings of The Robert and Noeline Chapman Audio-Visual Archive

Data for Comparative Political Science website

New Zealand Election Study Datasets website

University of Auckland Library Resources