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Library databases

Academic Search Complete

Multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text journals.

APA PsycArticles 

Provides access to 119 journals, including the APA’s flagship publication, American Psychologist.

APA PsycBooks

Provides access to the most current library of APA-published scholarly books, including all of the reference titles in the APA Handbooks in Psychology Series.

APA PsycInfo

Indexing and abstracting database published by the APA. It Contains over 4 million records of globally published books, journals and dissertation abstracts.

The British & Irish Legal Information Institute contains British and Irish case law and legislation, European Union case law, Law Commission reports, and other law-related British and Irish materials. BAILII is a free resource but note it may not be as up to date as databases such as Westlaw UK. Check the status of any Act to see if it is provided in its original version, or if it has been revised.

Cambridge University Press Journals collection

Cambridge University Press Journals collection consists of more than 420 peer-reviewed academic journals covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine.

eBook Central

A multi-disciplinary collection of e-books aligned to Arden’s programmes. 

EBSCO eBook Collection

A multi-disciplinary collection of e-books aligned to Arden’s programmes.

EBSCO Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection

A collection of 470 full text journal titles.

EBSCO Psychology eBook Collection

Provides access to popular e-books in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, counselling and more.

EBSCO Regional Business News

Provides access to full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. You can search newspapers, magazines and other resources from trusted news sources.

GALE Business: Insights

Gale Business: Insights provides users with detailed financial, historical, and current event information on over 400,000 companies, industries, and countries. Users can easily find Plunkett Reports, SWOT analyses, case studies, comparison charts, scholarly journals, and more.

Gale Power Search

GALE Power Search is a cross-search platform that enables users to do one search across multiple GALE databases.

Gale Research Complete

Gale Research Complete contains a wealth of resources including Gale eBooks (books and encyclopaedias), Gale Academic OneFile (journals), Gale General OneFile (magazines), Gale OneFile News (current newspapers), Gale Literature (English literature resources) and Archives Unbound (primary historical sources).

IBIS World

Access to thousands of industry research reports, providing students with the same industry intelligence and tools used by companies around the world.

Kortext

An eBook platform that provides many of your key and essential reading titles. You can read your eBooks on the go with the Kortext App, personalise your reading with a range of accessibility features, and access other tools including highlighting text and making notes, copying and pasting text, and printing.

Legal Source

Full-text database covering Law and Criminal Justice. It provides detailed indexing for legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association publications and university publications and contains more than 490 full text journal and magazine publications.

Legislation.gov.uk

Legislation.gov.uk carries most (but not all) types of legislation and their accompanying explanatory documents.  All legislation from 1988 is available (with a few minor exceptions). Legislation.gov.uk is a free resource but note it may not be as up-to-date as databases such as Westlaw UK. Check the status of any Act to see if it is provided in its original version, or if it has been revised.

Lexis+

Lexis+ is a legal database offering access to UK, EU and international case law, legislation, legal journals, commentary texts, current awareness, and news. The database also contains a range of practitioner texts.

Newswires

Provides near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire on a continuous basis.

SAGE Journals Premier Collection

Provides access to journal titles across a range of Psychology and Counselling sub-disciplines including, Developmental, Child and Family, Clinical, Social, Cognitive Psychology and more. 

ScienceDirect Freedom Collection

ScienceDirect provides access to the scientific, technical and medical journals of Elsevier and participating publishers. It contains more than 18 million articles and book chapters from over 2,650 peer-reviewed journals and 42,000 e-books, including books, book series and major reference works, and digital archives that reach as far back as 1823.

Statista

Statista is a data and statistics platform that consolidates more than 1 million statistics over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources.

Westlaw eBooks

A collection of practitioner texts covering a range of legal areas including Company and Commercial, Employment, Contract, Employment, EU & International, Family and Social Welfare, Human Rights, Intellectual Property, Tort and more.

Westlaw International

Provides access to International Legal Materials from countries including Australia, Canada, European Union, Hong Kong and Korea.

Westlaw UK

One of the major databases for case law, legislation, and commentary. It has the full text of the official Law Reports series and contains material back to 1220 via the English Reports. Westlaw UK also provides a ‘case analysis’ document for UK cases providing information about the case and where it has been judicially considered, and where it links to relevant legislation and commentary.  It also provides access to European cases and international case law. For legislation, it contains the fully consolidated text of Acts since 1267 and selected Statutory Instruments since 1948.

World LII

The World Legal Information Institute: provides free, independent and non-profit access to worldwide law including a country-by-country listing (for constitutions, cases and legislation etc.)

Referencing guide

As a Foundation Year Pathway student, you will be following AU Harvard. You can access the referencing guides here:

AU Complete Guide to Harvard Referencing

AU Quick Guide to Harvard Referencing

Need help with referencing or plagiarism? You will find information about all the referencing systems e.g. Harvard as well as the relevant guides and information about some helpful workshops here:

Academic Integrity

Resources to help you with referencing, avoiding plagiarism and maintaining academic integrity.

Professional bodies and associations

Law and Criminology

About CILEX

CILEX is the governing body for nearly 21,000 Chartered Legal Executive Lawyers, and other legal practitioners, including paralegals. Their mission is to enhance the role and reputation of Chartered Legal Executives and all of their members in the legal profession.

British Society of Criminology

The British Society of Criminology seeks to advance the interests and understanding of academic and professional professionals involved in any area of crime, criminal behavior, or the criminal justice systems in the United Kingdom, whether via work, teaching, research, or public education. The Society has been around for 60 years and has a diverse membership both in the United States and abroad.

Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences | Recognised Professional Body

The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences is committed to integrity and impartiality. It aims to provide opportunities for practitioners, academics, and interested parties to congregate, communicate and collaborate and is committed to providing opportunities for professional development.

Home | The Law Society

The Law Society is the independent professional body for solicitors. They are the voice of solicitors, driving excellence in the profession and safeguarding the rule of law.

Management

Chartered Management Institute

The CMI is the only organisation that can award Chartered Manager status, the highest accolade for managers and leaders. The CMI inspires modern managers to become successful, confident leaders.

Institute of Health and Social Care Management

The IHSCM is the leading independent membership organisation for managers and leaders who plan, deliver and support health and care in the UK and across the worldThe IHSCM’s mission is to provide opportunities for leaders, managers and administrators to meet together, share experiences, learn from each other and grow their careers, interests and skills.

Psychology in Everyday Life

American Psychological Association (APA)

APA is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States, with more than 121,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students as its members. APA also has 54 divisions in subfields of psychology. Their mission is to promote the advancement, communication, and application of psychological science and knowledge to benefit society and improve lives.

BACP

The British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy is a professional association for members of the counseling professions in the UK. The main purpose is to protect the public and help them find therapists they can trust. They aim to reassure clients, the general public, and employees that a BACP practitioner adheres to high standards of proficiency, professionalism, and good practice.

BPS

The British Psychological Society is a registered charity that acts as the representative body for psychology and psychologists in the UK. It is responsible for promoting excellence and ethical practice in the science, education, and application of this discipline.

Contributing to Society Developing psychology Serving psychologists | EFPA

EFPA is the umbrella organization in Europe for national psychologists’ associations and currently comprises associations from 38 European countries, including all 27 member countries of the European Union. It has a long tradition of developing psychology, contributing to society serving psychology by promoting and protecting the profession at national and European levels. It sets a European standard of education, professional training, and competence in psychology.

Professional Standards Authority

They help to protect the public through their work with organisations that register and regulate people working in health and social care. They do this by delivering highly effective oversight of regulation and registration of professional healthcare workers with a clear focus on quality improvement, effective financial management, equality and diversity, and investment in the people. The regulators set standards of competence and conduct, check the quality of education and training courses, maintain a register and investigate complaints about professionals on their register.

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Podcasts

Podcasts – Views & Research – The Conversation

Conversation is a non-profit media network that publishes and podcasts news stories and research reports online, along with expert opinion and analysis.

Speaking of Psychology - American Psychological Association

Speaking of Psychology is an audio podcast series highlighting some of the latest, most important, and relevant psychological research being conducted today. Produced by the American Psychological Association, these podcasts will help listeners apply the science of psychology to their everyday lives.

TED Podcasts

Subscribe to listen on Apple Podcasts, the TED Android app, or wherever you get your podcasts.

The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast

A weekly philosophy podcast inspiring and supporting students, teachers, academics, and free-thinkers worldwide.

Useful websites

Law

Hansard - UK Parliament

The official report of all Parliamentary debates. You can find Members, their contributions, debates, petitions and divisions from published Hansard reports dating back over 200 years. Daily debates from Hansard are published on their website the next working day.

Lawbore Law Link Directory

Lawbore is a family of sites that include a link directory, a multimedia tutorials site, a blog, an e-learning hub, an events calendar, and a legal design gallery.

UK Parliament

Parliament examines what the Government is doing, makes new laws, holds the power to set taxes and debates the issues of the day. The House of Commons and House of Lords each play an important role in Parliament's work. Parliament is there to represent the public interests and make sure they are taken into account by the Government. The Government cannot make new laws or raise new taxes without Parliament's agreement.

Ethics

Home | Institute of Business Ethics - IBE

The Institute of Business Ethics was established in 1986 to champion the highest standards of ethical behaviour in business.

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy | An encyclopedia of philosophy articles written by professional philosophers

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) was founded in 1995 to provide direct access to detailed, scholarly, peer-reviewed information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy. The purpose of the IEP is to supply detailed, scholarly, peer-reviewed information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of academic philosophy.

Understanding artificial intelligence ethics and safety

The Office for Artificial Intelligence (OAI) and the Government Digital Service (GDS) has produced the following chapter’s guidance in partnership with The Alan Turing Institute’s public policy programme.

Human Rights and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)

Home - Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Research Guides at United Nations Library & Archives Geneva

This guide will help you find resources focusing on the Declaration of Human Rights. It provides links to relevant documents related to the history and the drafting process of the Declaration. In addition, key UN Resources, websites, news feeds (RSS, Twitter) and videos have been selected by your UN librarians to help you to keep up-to-date on this subject.

Minimum age of criminal responsibility - CRIN

CRIN is a creative think tank that produces new and dynamic perspectives on human rights issues, with a focus on children’s rights. It presses for rights - not charity - and campaigns for a genuine shift in how governments and societies view and treat children.

Stand up for human rights | UN Human Rights Office

The UN Human Rights Office upholds values that are the roots of peace and inclusion. We advocate practical solutions to fear and injustice, so governments protect the rights of all their people in line with international law. We monitor their policies and call them out if they fall short. We stand for greater freedoms. Stronger respect. More compassion.

THE 17 GOALS | Sustainable Development (un.org)

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which have been adopted by all UN Member States, are an urgent call to action for all countries to work together in a global partnership. The aim is to remove poverty and other forms of deprivation, improve health and education, reduce inequality, and boost economic growth while also tackling climate change and conserving our oceans and forests.

UN Women – Headquarters

UN Women is the UN organization delivering programmes, policies and standards that uphold women’s human rights and ensure that every woman and girl lives up to her full potential.

UNESCO | Building peace in the minds of men and women

UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. It seeks to build peace through international cooperation in education, sciences and culture. UNESCO's programmes contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals defined in the 2030 Agenda, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015.

UNICEF

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfil their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.