Overview of NZFVC Website - www.nzfvc.org.nz

The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse is a predominantly web-based organisation. The website is seen as a central collation point where access is provided to a range of research, resources and information relating to domestic and family violence. This page briefly introduces you, the user, to our site. On this page you will find information about

Home Page

Research and Publications

How to use the Advanced Search Function

Home Page

The Home page provides simple access to the entire website via a navigation bar on the left hand side of the screen. For example, you can link directly to the About Us to find out more about the Clearinghouse, or you can click on the Events link to find out what conferences, hui or workshops are taking place in New Zealand and around the world. You can also read the Clearinghouse News and visit Archived news articles from the Home page.

A key function of the Home page is the central hyperlinked text which allows users to instantly access the range of resources available on the Research and Publications page. This page is the principal source of research, best practice and community information on the Clearinghouse website. Each of the sections on the Research and Publications page are outlined briefly to help you get started.

Research and Publications

The Research and Publications page can be searched in two ways: via Resources or by Topic Area.

Resources:

The Research and Publications page can be searched in two ways: via Resources or by Topic Area.

Best Practice This database is organised by Prevention, Intervention and Treatment. It will be further developed during 2006 and will contain training resources, programme evaluations, and evidence-supported best practice guidelines.

Research “The Library” provides access to material on most aspects of family violence via a bibliographic database. There is a range of national and international material available, with a focus on New Zealand based information. There are links to PDF files where available, and when items are not available online, there is a link to request some materials on short-term loan from the hard-copy repository hosted by Ministry of Social Development in Wellington.

Clearinghouse Publications From here the user can access the New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse Newsletters and Fact Sheets. All documents are available for download in PDF format.

Public Education The Community Action Toolkit has been developed to support communities to reduce and prevent family violence.  It has strategies and ideas for community projects, ideas for engaging different sectors in your community, facts and figures, case studies and success stories.  The kit was developed as part of a national public education resource package coordinated by the Ministry of Social Development with participation from non-government organisations.

Topic Areas are arranged under three sub-headings: Types of family violence; Groups affected by family violence; and Related issues. Searching by topic-area keyword will bring up documents from all of the above Research areas, relating to that particular keyword. One further point to note is that on every page of the Clearinghouse website the user can perform a keyword Publication search. This is located at the top right hand side of the screen. This can be a quick way to search your topic of interest, and in particular, a way to search for a keyword which is not listed under Topic Areas.

How to Use the Advanced Search Function

The Advanced Search function allows you to perform specific subject and author searches, limiting the number of items resulting from a search, and thereby, saving you valuable time. The Advanced Search function is available from all pages of the NZFVC website. Simply click on the Advanced link in the Site Search box at the top of the webpage.

Search for keywords or text:

“” Search for an exact phrase

To search for an exact phrase, use quotation marks around the phrase. Eg: “Abused Men” will return publications with that exact text.

and Narrow a search

To narrow a search to return results for ALL keywords or phrases, use and between them. Eg: “Intimate partner abuse” and “Physical abuse” will return documents matching both phrases.

or Expand a search - or

To expand a search to return results for ANY keywords or phrases, use between them. Eg: “Intimate partner abuse” or “Physical abuse” will return documents matching either of the phrases.

not Exclude key words or phrases

To exclude keywords or phrases from a search, use not between them. Eg: “Sexual assault/rape” not “Sexual abuse” will find the former, but exclude the latter.

- Exclude a word from a search

To exclude a word from a search, add a - to the front of the word. Eg: -Wellington will find documents that do not contain Wellington.

Search for author (optional):

You can either search for just an author’s name, or for keywords and author. For example, entering a phrase (as in the above options) and an author’s name will return documents by that particular author that contain the phrase you have entered.

Limit search to Research and Publications:

When you search the NZFVC website - either by a general site search or by an advanced search - the search results will include items from the entire website containing that word or phrase, including the NZFVC Newsletters and Fact Sheet, news items, events, as well as research and publications in ‘The Library’. To limit your search to documents in ‘The Library’, tick the box in the Advanced Search:

Limit search to New Zealand Items:

‘The Library’ contains both New Zealand-based research and evaluation documents, and international publications. It is possible to limit your search to New-Zealand-based publications by ticking this box. (This option automatically selects items from ‘The Library’ only, so you do not need to check both boxes.)

Additional General Search tips:

• Do not use colons : when searching for a title. This could result in 0 items being found. being found.
• Don’t forget to try the Topic Area matrix for quick and easy searches. Go to the Research and Publications page and click on any of the Topic Areas in the blue grid. Your search will return all research and publication items on the NZFVC website on that topic.

We hope that this information will help you to improve your searches in the future. If you have any further questions, please contact us.