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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.

BMJ Innovations

BMJ Innovations is an online journal, covering research on emerging digital health, medical devices and innovations.

BMJ Leader

BMJ Leader is an international, peer-reviewed, online-only journal focusing on leadership in health and care.

BMJ Quality & Safety

BMJ Quality & Safety is an international peer-reviewed journal covering the science of improvement across healthcare services and provision.

BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care

BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care is a journal covering all disciplines and specialities in palliative research.

Business Source Ultimate

EBSCO’s premier database for Business students. It provides access to journal articles, news articles, case studies, industry profiles, country reports, SWOT analyses and more.

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.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text

Provides indexing of the top nursing and allied health literature available, including nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association.

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 Open Dissertations

A database with records for more than 1.2 million electronic theses and dissertations from around the world.

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 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

Provides 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.

Management Direct

The Learning Portal of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). Students studying Arden’s CMI accredited programmes receive access to Management Direct as part of their CMI membership.

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

Provides access to journal titles across a range of subjects and sub-disciplines.

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.

Research tools

Gorilla: Online Experiment Builder

Gorilla allows you to create behavioural experiments in your internet browser and get participants to complete them on their phone or computer. Using Gorilla, you can create response-time tasks, questionnaires, present videos, and lots more. In order to sign up to Gorilla, please follow the link above.

You must sign up to Gorilla using your Arden University email address.

SPSS

Statistical package for social sciences and it is used by researchers to perform statistical analysis.

To install SPSS, please follow these instructions:

AU Guide to SPSS Installation

If you need any help, please contact our Academic Skills Tutors to ask for support or book an appointment.

Referencing guide

As a Health and Care Management, Joints or Apprenticeship 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.

LinkedIn Learning

LinkedIn Learning is a video-based online learning platform with more than 16,500 professionally created courses, designed to help you gain new skills and advance your career. To access LinkedIn Learning, sign in using your Arden Office 365 credentials. The first time you log in, you will need to answer some set-up questions to get you started and ensure the content is relevant to your learning needs.

You can access the online learning platform here: LinkedIn Learning

Professional bodies and associations

Professional bodies and associations are organisations you will engage with throughout your career. Becoming familiar with them during your studies is a great way to keep up to date with developments in your field and build your professional network.

Chartered Management Institute (CMI)

The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) works with business and education to inspire people to become skilled, confident and successful managers and leaders. Backed by a unique Royal Charter, they are the only organisation that can award Chartered Manager status.

Podcasts

The King's Fund Podcast

A podcast about big ideas in health and care, talking with experts from The King’s Fund and beyond about the NHS, social care, and all things health policy and leadership. New episodes monthly.