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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.

BAILII

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.

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.

Business Source Complete

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

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 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.

EBSCO Open Dissertations

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

EBSCO Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection

Provides access to a wide range of popular e-books in on topics such as psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and counselling

EBSCO Psychology eBook Collection

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

Forensic Science International

Part of our ScienceDirect Collection, this is an international journal dedicated to the applications of medicine and science in the administration of justice.

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).

Global Crime

Global Crime publishes research on crime across international settings including issues relating to general crime trends, organized criminality, corruption and state crime.

Howard Journal of Crime

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice is an international peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing high quality theory, research and debate on all aspects of the relationship between crime and justice across the globe..

Journal of Criminal Psychology

International and multidisciplinary, the Journal of Criminal Psychology publishes both scholarly and practitioner-based research on all aspects of the psychology of criminal behaviour.

Journal of Forensic Investigation

An open access journal focusing on the latest research in the field of investigation with respect to science and technology elevating the facts, ensuring social justice and well being.

Journal of Forensic Sciences

The Journal of Forensic Sciences is devoted to the publication of original investigations, observations, scholarly inquiries and reviews in various branches of the forensic sciences. These include anthropology, criminalistics, digital and multimedia sciences, engineering and applied sciences.

Journal of Forensic Sciences & Criminal Investigation

An open access journal publishing information on discoveries and current developments related to forensic and criminal science department.

Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology

The Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology presents peer-reviewed reports and research covering the theory and application of psychological principles in criminal justice, law enforcement, courts, and corrections

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 Library

Provides access to a collection of highly regarded journals, loose-leafs, e-books and practitioner texts. The collection includes the Family Law Journal and The Family Court Practice (The Red Book).

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.

Oxford University Press Law Journals Collection

The Oxford University Press Law Journals Collection is a collection of 48 scholarly journals covering areas of legal scholarship such as commercial, economic, and refugee law, as well as criminal justice.

Police Practice and Research - An International Journal

Police Practice and Research publishes articles on developments in policing, public order, state of safety, community policing, country- or region-specific police organization and more.

Police Quarterly

Part of our SAGE Journals Collection. Peer-reviewed and published quarterly in association with the Police Executive Research Forum (www.policeforum.org) and the Police Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (www.acjs.org), this is a scholarly journal that publishes empirical studies on issues related to policing.

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.

The Police Journal

Part of our SAGE Journals Collection. A peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research studies, conceptual articles, theoretical overviews or reviews, and articles on good practice or practice evaluation, to reflect the constantly changing landscape in which police personnel around the world operate.

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 full 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 an Investigation, Security and Defence, 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.

College of Policing

This is a professional body for personnel working within the policing field which operates independently from the Home Office.

British Society of Criminology

This is an international organisation which informs both practitioners and scholars for teaching and research purposes in the field of crime, criminal behaviour and the criminal justice system in the UK and internationally.

Investigation, Security and Defence

Library Databases

Academic Search Complete

APA PsycArticles

APA PsycBooks

APA PsycInfo

Business Source Complete

EBSCO Legal Source

EBSCO Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection

EBSCO Psychology eBook Collection

Lexis Library

Referencing Guide

Professional Bodies and Associations

College of Policing

British Society of Criminology

Podcasts

UK Law Weekly

UK True Crime Podcasts

The Crime Scene Investigator

Useful Websites

College of Policing

Police.UK

Gov.UK

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