Publications New Zealand

Publications New Zealand is New Zealand's National Bibliography. It contains descriptions of books, periodicals, films, music and other material published in New Zealand, or with a significant New Zealand content.

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What’s the New Zealand National Bibliography?

The New Zealand National Bibliography (NZNB) is a list of publications from or about New Zealand. It provides a record of New Zealand’s publishing activities and is a reflection of the social, cultural and scientific endeavours of this country. The New Zealand National Bibliography is also known as Publications New Zealand.

Scope of New Zealand National Bibliography

The NZNB does not include every item that is published in, or that relates to, this country. The following material is selected for inclusion in the NZNB:

  • books, pamphlets, serials, non-book, and

  • electronic materials published in New Zealand

Also included is material published outside New Zealand and with one or more of the following characteristics:

  • at least one fifth New Zealand content

  • a New Zealand setting for fiction, film, videos or dvds

  • a New Zealand contributor, e.g. an author, editor, illustrator or composer

The following material is excluded :

  • unpublished material, for example, theses

  • chapters from books, articles from journals

  • ephemeral material, for example, calendars, slight publicity material, election leaflets.

Records describing items that are out of scope for NZNB are still included in the Library’s catalogue when such items are added to the Library’s collections.

Definitions used by New Zealand National Bibliography

Film — if a film is not published or set in New Zealand there must be a substantial New Zealand input into its creation for it to be in scope for NZNB. Substantial means more than one person named in the catalogue record, because they are significant to the film, is recognised as a New Zealander.

For example, Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films are in scope because of the substantial NZ content in terms of script, editing, direction, special effects, on top of the impact of these films on NZ identity. The Last Samurai is out of scope for NZNB as it is essentially an overseas film that was made in New Zealand.

Published — is defined as all works available to the public, including works for limited distribution only. Videos, dvds and music sound recordings where the distributor is the only New Zealand contribution are out of scope for NZNB.

New Zealand — works with a New Zealand location as a second or later place of publication are not regarded as New Zealand publications.

New Zealand contributor — If there are up to 3 authors/editors and 1 is a New Zealander, then the work is in scope. If there are more than 3 authors/editors, the work is only in scope if the first named author/editor is a New Zealander.

Download Publications New Zealand reports

Recent Publications New Zealand monthly reports are available below. If you would like older reports, email us. Report files are available from January 2002.

Email — tepuna@dia.govt.nz.

2024

April 2024 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 252 KB)
April 2024 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf, 1 MB)
April 2024 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 1 MB)

March 2024 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 195 KB)
March 2024 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf, 790 KB)
March 2024 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 1.15 MB)

February 2024 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 210 KB)
February 2024 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf, 1 MB)
February 2024 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 1 MB)

January 2024 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 775 KB)
January 2024 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf, 2.55 MB)
January 2024 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 3.95 MB)

2023

December 2023 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 180 KB)
December 2023 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf, 890 KB)
December 2023 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 830 KB)

November 2023 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 672 KB)
November 2023 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf, 2.20 MB)
November 2023 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 3.70 MB)

October 2023 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 270 KB)
October 2023 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf, 1.20 MB)
October 2023 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 1.30 MB)

September 2023 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 200 KB)
September 2023 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf, 850 KB)
September 2023 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 970 KB)

August 2023 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 290 KB)
August 2023 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf, 1.15 MB)
August 2023 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 1.6 MB)

July 2023 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 325 KB)
July 2023 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf, 1.95 MB)
July 2023 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 1.6 MB)

June 2023 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 303KB)
June 2023 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf, 1.6MB)
June 2023 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 1.5MB)

May 2023 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 355KB)
May 2023 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf, 1.9MB)
May 2023 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 2.0MB)

April 2023 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 439KB)
April 2023 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf, 1.3MB)
April 2023 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 2.29MB)

March 2023 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 439KB)
March 2023 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf, 1.3MB)
March 2023 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 2.29MB)

February 2023 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 351KB)
February 2023 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf,1.3MB)
February 2023 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 1.9MB)

January 2023 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 478KB)
January 2023 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf,1.6MB)
January 2023 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 2MB)

2022

December 2022 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 919KB)
December 2022 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf,3MB)
December 2022 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 5MB)

November 2022 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 612KB)
November 2022 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf, 1.8MB)
November 2022 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 3.2MB)

October 2022 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 421KB)
October 2022 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf, 1.3MB)
October 2022 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 1.6MB)

September 2022 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 421KB)
September 2022 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf, 1.4MB)
September 2022 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 2.3MB)

August 2022 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 823KB)
August 2022 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf, 2.5MB)
August 2022 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 4.4MB)

July 2022 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 577KB)
July 2022 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf, 2.6MB)
July 2022 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 3MB)

June 2022 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 395KB)
June 2022 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf, 1.9MB)
June 2022 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 2.1MB)

May 2022 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 395KB)
May 2022 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf, 2MB)
May 2022 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 2MB)

April 2022 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 322KB)
April 2022 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf, 1.2MB)
April 2022 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 1.7MB)

March 2022 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 532KB)
March 2022 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf, 1.7MB)
March 2022 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 3.1MB)

February 2022 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 386KB)
February 2022 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf, 1.3MB)
February 2022 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 1.9MB)

January 2022 — NZNB Report excel (xlsx, 293KB)
January 2022 — NZNB Report pdf (pdf, 1.3MB)
January 2022 — NZNB Report marc (mrc, 1.7MB)

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Publications New Zealand is New Zealand's national bibliography. The Publications New Zealand dataset contains bibliographic records created or identified by the National Library and other New Zealand libraries.