We have upgraded the search engine, and taken the opportunity to remove all stop words. This means all words are searchable, including very common words like “the”. If you search the phrase – “count of all the shore birds” for…

We are upgrading the search engine tonight, Friday 12th September from about 6:00pm. This includes a reindex to remove stop words. Users may experience some delays, and perhaps the search results will not reflect all possible hits. We suggest you…

July 1 2014: 2pm Thank you to all our users for their patience and assistance – the upgrade is mostly complete, although there are a few small things being fixed or enhanced. Please do not hesitate to contact us if…

06:30am – 11:40 am – We have had intermittent problems with providing a search service, as Auckland University Computer Centre where our search servers are located, is experiencing power outages, which they are desperately trying to fix. Our apologies for…