Arden Library

Library Databases

A 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.

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 analysis and more.

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

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 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).

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to search for scholarly literature across many disciplines, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. You can also adjust your settings to ask Google Scholar to take you back to Arden’s library if there is full text availability.

IBIS World

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

M anagement 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 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.

Research Tools

Gorilla 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. 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 Business, 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.

The Association for Project Management (APM)

The only chartered body for the project profession, with over 30,000 individual members and more than 500 organisations participating in our Corporate Partnership Programme.

The Project Management Institute (PMI)

A “for-purpose” organization, working in nearly every country around the world as a leading professional association for a growing community of millions of project professionals.

The Chartered Management Institute (CMI)

Backed by Royal Charter, the CMI works with business and education to inspire people to become skilled, confident and successful managers and leaders.

Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD)

A professional association for human resource management professionals.

International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)

An international, non-profit membership association for information security leaders.

Digital Analytics Association

Advancing the use of data to understand and improve the digital world through professional development and community.

Professional Information Security Association (PISA)

An independent and not-for-profit organisation for information security professionals, with the primary objective of promoting information security awareness and best practice.

Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA)

An organisation helping business technology professionals and enterprises around the world realize the positive potential of technology.

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Working with industry and science to advance innovation and improve quality of life.

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

An independent, non-governmental international organisation sharing knowledge and developing voluntary, consensus-based, market relevant International Standards that support innovation and provide solutions to global challenges.

Tourism Society

Where individuals from across tourism come together (online and offline) for discussion, debate, to share views and knowledge, and to network.

Institute of Travel and Tourism

The only membership organisation for travel and tourism professionals, suppliers, educators, and students across all sectors of the industry.

UK Hospitality

Representing the broad hospitality sector – covering everything from bars, coffee shops, contract catering, hotels, nightclubs, visitor attractions and other leisure venues.

Association of British Travel Agents

Offering advice and guidance to the travelling public, as well as leading the travel industry in supporting high service standards, working with our Members on health and safety, and promoting responsible tourism at home and abroad.

World Tourism Organization

The United Nations agency responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism.

International Air Transport Association

The trade association for the world’s airlines, representing 290 airlines / 82% of total air traffic.

Tourism Management Institute

A network of professionals who promote and develop destinations across the UK, Europe and worldwide.

Podcasts

APM Podcast

The APM Podcast covers discussions and insights on the latest project management topics.

Rights Up

A podcast from the Oxford Human Rights Hub, looking at the big human rights issues of the day and bringing in new perspectives from all over the world by talking to experts, academics, practicing lawyers, activists and policy makers who are at the forefront of tackling these difficult issues.

PsychCrunch

The podcast from the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest, exploring whether the findings from psychological science can make a difference in real life.

The Psychologist

A series of podcasts on different themes and topics, provided by the British Psychological Society.

Security Weekly

Business Security Weekly is a weekly webinar/webcast providing unique perspectives on real problems and solutions to help organisations secure their environments effectively.

Perspectives in Business and Healthcare Management Newsletter

Download your copy of Perspectives in Business and Healthcare Management here:

Perspectives in Business & Healthcare Management 01 - December 2019

Perspectives in Business & Healthcare Management 02 - March 2020

Perspectives in Business & Healthcare Management 03 - September 2020

Perspectives in Business & Healthcare Management 04 Pt 1 - January 2021

Perspectives in Business & Healthcare Management 04 Pt 2 - January 2021

Perspectives in Business & Healthcare Management 05 - April 2021

Useful Websites

BBC Business News

Google Business News

Reuters Business News

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

Chartered Management Institute (CMI)

European Cyber Security Organisation: ECSO

Data Science Central

ISACA

National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)

Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD)

Project Management Institute (PMI)

Visit Britain

World Travel and Tourism Council

Association of Independent Tour Operators

Global Sustainable Tourism Council

The International Ecotourism Society

Travel Trade Gazette

Travel Daily News

The Drum

Digiday

Internet Advertising Bureau

CMO by Adobe

PR Week

AdAge

Wunderman Thompson Intelligence

Content Marketing Institute (CMI)

Mobile Marketing Association

Marketing Week

Please note there is a subscription based service, but the free service has a lot of content and offers regular news alerts via email.

Campaign

Please note there is a subscription based service, but the free service has a lot of content and offers a regular news alert via email.

Resources for Leadership & Management Students

VisitBritain Student Resources

A wealth of information about and from the national tourism organisation responsible for marketing Britain overseas and developing England's tourism product.

UNWTO Academy

Courses, webinars and resources from the UN World Tourism Organisation.

Leadership & Management