Arden Library

Library Databases

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

Provides access to the Key Texts for your programme all in one place. You can use BibliU online and offline using a web browser or a mobile app for Android or IOS and as this is your own personal Library you will also have the ability to highlight and take notes.

Computers & Applied Sciences Complete

A full-text database covering computing, technology and engineering disciplines.

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.

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.

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). .

International Journal of Data Science and Analytics

The International Journal of Data Science and Analytics contains peer reviewed scientific documents in the fields of Databases & Information Systems and Machine Learning & Artificial intelligence.

SAGE Journals Premier Collection

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.

Referencing Guide

As a Computing, Joints, or Foundation Pathway student, you will be following AU Harvard. You can download the complete referencing guide here:

AU Complete Guide to Harvard Referencing

AU Short Guide to Harvard Referencing

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.

British Computer Society

A royal charter charity with over 60,000 members in 150 countries, BCS aim to lead the IT industry through its ethical challenges, to support the people who work in the industry, and to make IT good for society.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

The world's largest computing society, ACM brings together computing educators, researchers, and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources, and address the field's challenges.

IEEE

The premier source for information, inspiration, and collaboration in computer science and engineering.

Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET)

A multidisciplinary professional engineering institution, championing the importance of engineering and technology.

Podcasts

Codingblocks.net

Pragmatic talk about software design best practices: software architecture, coding for performance, object oriented programming, database design and implementation, tips, tricks and a whole lot more.

Software Engineering Radio

Offers pioneering ideas, expert analyses, and thoughtful insights for software professionals who need to keep up with rapid technology change. It's the authority on translating software theory into practice.

Paul’s Security Weekly

A weekly show featuring interviews with folks in the security community, technical segments, and security news.

Talk Python To Me

A weekly podcast covering a wide array of Python topics as well as many related topics (e.g. MongoDB, AngularJS, DevOps).

Code Radio

A weekly talk show taking a pragmatic look at the art and business of Software Development and the world of technology.

Security Now

A weekly podcast discussing important issues of personal computer security.

Useful Websites

Better Programming

Computer Science Teacher

StackAbuse

Reddit Computer Science

Geeks for Geeks

ACMTechNews

Resources for Computing Students

Microsoft Academic

Microsoft Academic a free public web search engine for academic publications and literature, developed by Microsoft Research. Using semantic search, it understands the meaning of words - it doesn’t just match keywords to content. For example, when you type “Microsoft,” it knows you mean the institution, and shows you publications authored by researchers affiliated with Microsoft. Similarly, Microsoft Academic knows journal titles, conference names, and many research topics.