International Dateline-Oral History Collections in New Zealand

Insights from natural history collections: analysing the New Zealand macroalgal flora using herbarium data

Herbaria and natural history collections (NHC) are critical to the practice of taxonomy and have potential to serve as sources of data for biodiversity and conservation. They are the repositories of vital reference specimens, enabling species to be studied and their distribution in space and time to be documented and analysed, as well as enabling the development of hypotheses about species rela...

The history of medicine in New Zealand.

IT IS almost one hundred years ago since my father was born in New Zealand-justas it had taken his parents the best part of five months to sail out from England, to that lovely and stimulating Colony. For fifty of the eighty years he lived, he practised medicine in New Zealand-after qualifying and obtaining his Fellowship in Edinburgh. This medicine, at the turn of the century and later, was th...

The New Zealand Digital Library: Collections and Experience

The New Zealand Digital Library project aims to develop the underlying technology for digital libraries and make it available for others to use to create their own collections. We have built a large number of demonstration collections. Because our policy is to avoid manual processing of material, full-text indexing and—to a lesser degree—automatically created browsing structures provide the pri...

Working in psychiatry in New Zealand: Experiences of International (non-New Zealand) Medical Graduates.

On the 11th of February 2016, the Health Secretary in the United Kingdom (UK) Jeremy Hunt announced his plan to impose the Junior Doctor Contract despite thousands of healthcare professionals storming the streets of Westminster in defiant protest. A leading member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Psychiatric Trainee Committee described the Junior Doctor Contract as 'poisonous', exclaiming ...

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