Searching
When you have done a search, and are viewing the results, you will notice that each result record includes the title of the document (or its file name if there is no title), a "snippet" from the document text, the document size (in bytes), and then the URL of the document. It is important for you to know that if you click on the Title link, you will be presented with a filtered version of the file, if it is not a Web (HTML) document. That is, you will see the "plain text" of the document, without having to use a "plugin" - even for PDF and MS Word files. Search word "hits" will be highlighted in red in the document. In the case of PDF (Acrobat) format documents that are viewed in this way, the display will be rather ugly. If you click on the URL link however, you can view the document with the appropriate plugin. This will show a "rich text" version of the document - however it will take longer to download to your viewer.

Example
This family law paper is designed to promote discussion about the welfare of our children and the basic rules our society has made about rights and responsibilities in family relationships. This law relating to guardianship, custody and access is over thirty years old.

In the example above, the original legal document is in Microsoft Word format. If you click on the title a plain text version of the file will be displayed with search words highlighted. If you click on the URL your browser will either display a rich text version of the document, or it will prompt you to name a viewer, or it will attempt to install one, depending on what software you have installed on your system, or which browser you are using. If you need it, you can download it from here.

LEGAL  SEARCH: This database has two "collections" - New Zealand Law Firms, and Legal Sites - which includes Te Puna Web Directory - Law.

MAORI  SEARCH: This database indexes worldwide websites with strong Maori content.

SCIENCE AND AGRICULTURAL  SEARCH: This database indexes New Zealand websites with a scientific or agricultural focus.

nzED  SEARCH: Thanks to the work of Glen Davies at the College of Education, Christchurch, we are able to offer this valuable database of educational websites in New Zealand for searching.