Arden Library

Library Databases

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.

BibliU

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

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 service and provision.

BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care

BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care is a journal covering all disciplines and specialties 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.

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.

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).

Gale Academic OneFile

Gale Academic OneFile, provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources

Gale Literature Criticism

Gale Literature Criticism takes literature, history and culture to the next level with the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available.

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.

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.

MEDLINE

An authoritative bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts for biomedical and health journals.

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.

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. Please contact Emily Blakemore to request a licence or ask for support.

NVivo

NVivo is a qualitative data analysis program, supporting data organisation, analysis and visualisation. You may find this useful when working with qualitative or mixed methods research where coding multiple data sources is required.

To install NVivo, please follow these instructions:

AU Guide to NVivo Installation

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 [Windows]

AU Guide to SPSS Installation [Mac]

If you need support or experience any issues with SPSS, please contact Emily Blakemore.

Referencing Guide

As a Healthcare Management, 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.

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.

Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH)

Established in 1856, the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) is an independent campaigning and educational charity dedicated to improving and protecting the health of all people, both in the United Kingdom and around the world.

Institute of Health and Social Care Management (IHSCM)

A leading independent membership organisation providing opportunities for leaders, managers and administrators to meet together, share experiences, learn from each other and grow their careers, interests and skills.

Agency for Public Health Education Accreditation (APHEA)

APHEA represents the five leading associations of public health in the European Region and is committed to assuring and improving the quality of educational activities throughout the European Region and the globe.

Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC)

The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) is a statutory regulator of over 280,000 professionals from 15 health and care professions in the United Kingdom.

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.