Arden Library

Library Databases

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

Provides access to 119 journals, including the APA’s flagship publication, American Psychologist.

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.

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 Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection

A collection of 470 full text journal titles.

EBSCO Psychology eBook Collection

Provides access to popular e-books in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, counselling and more.

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.

IBIS World

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).

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.

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). 

MEDLINE

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

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 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.

Westlaw eBooks

A collection of practitioner texts covering a range of legal areas including Company and Commercial, Employment, Contract, Employment, EU & International, Family and Social Welfare, Human Rights, Intellectual Property, Tort and more.

Westlaw International

Provides access to International Legal Materials from countries including Australia, Canada, European Union, Hong Kong and Korea.

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 Institution of Foundation Studies 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

Management

APM | The Chartered Body For The Project Profession

Association for Project Management (APM) is the only chartered body for the project profession, with over 35,000 individual members and more than 450 organisations participating in their Corporate Partnership Programme. As an educational charity, they are committed to developing and promoting the value of project management in order to deliver improved project outcomes for the benefit of society. Project Managers can benefit through membership, qualifications, chartered status, publications and events.

CIPD The Professional Body for Human Resources and People Development

The CIPD is a registered charity and exists to champion better work and working lives for the benefit of individuals, businesses, economies and society. Their vision is to create a world of work that is more human by changing perceptions about the purpose of work, the value of people and the role of people professionals. The CIPD is incorporated under Royal Charter and is the only professional body in the world that can confer individual Chartered status on HR and L&D professionals.

Chartered Management Institute

The CMI is the only organisation that can award Chartered Manager status, the highest accolade for managers and leaders. The CMI inspires modern managers to become successful, confident leaders.

Institute of Health and Social Care Management

The IHSCM is the leading independent membership organisation for managers and leaders who plan, deliver and support health and care in the UK and across the worldThe IHSCM’s mission is to provide opportunities for leaders, managers and administrators to meet together, share experiences, learn from each other and grow their careers, interests and skills.

Institute of Travel and Tourism

The Institute of Travel & Tourism was set up to raise and maintain professional standards throughout the travel industry and for the benefit of its members. Membership of ITT is open to everyone involved in travel and tourism – whether employed by a travel agency, airline, tour operator, hotel, tourist office, car hire company or any other travel-related business such as PR, law and marketing.

Marketing Qualifications, Training and Membership | CIM

CIM strives for business leaders and opinion formers to recognise the positive contribution professional marketing can bring to their organisations, the economy and wider society. We support, develop and represent marketers, organisations and the profession all over the world. Our ability to award Chartered Marketer status recognises a marketer’s commitment to staying current and abiding by a professional Code of Conduct. We provide a wide range of member services including qualifications, training, events and access to an online database of professional resources.

Project Management Institute | PMI

Project Management Institute (PMI) is the leading professional association for project management and the authority for a growing global community of millions of project professionals and individuals who use project management skills. Collectively, these professionals and “changemakers” consistently create better outcomes for businesses, communities and society worldwide.

SHRM - The Voice of All Things Work

The Society for Human Resource Management is a professional human resources membership association headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. SHRM promotes the role of HR as a profession and provides education, certification, and networking to its members while lobbying Congress on issues pertinent to labour management. SHRM is the foremost expert, convener and thought leader on issues impacting today’s evolving workplaces.

Technology

A European approach to artificial intelligence | Shaping Europe’s digital future

The EU’s approach to artificial intelligence centres on excellence and trust, aiming to boost research and industrial capacity and ensure fundamental rights. The European approach to artificial intelligence (AI) will help build a resilient Europe for the Digital Decade where people and businesses can enjoy the benefits of AI. It focuses on 2 areas: excellence in AI and trustworthy AI.

DMA - Data & Marketing Association

The Data & Marketing Association (DMA) is the engine that powers intelligent marketing. They combine technology, creativity, research, and insight to set standards for the UK's data and marketing community to meet to thrive, guided by our customer-first principles enshrined in the DMA Code.

Home | ICO

The UK’s independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals.

Home | The Alan Turing Institute

The Alan Turing Institute is the United Kingdom's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence with its headquartered at the British Library. As a result of a government recommendation, we expanded our mandate to include artificial intelligence in 2017. The Institute is named after Alan Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954), whose pioneering work in theoretical and applied mathematics, engineering, and computing is regarded as the foundation of the fields of data science and artificial intelligence.

USEFUL WEBSITES

Data and Cyber Security

Action Fraud

Action Fraud is the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and cyber crime where you should report fraud if you have been scammed, defrauded or experienced cybercrime.

CIISec | The home of cyber

The Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec) is the only pure-play information and cyber security institution to have been granted Royal Charter status, and it is dedicated to raising the bar in information and cyber security professionalism. CIISec serves as a universally recognised focal point for the information cyber security profession. It is an independent, non-profit organisation governed by its members that ensures professional standards for training, qualifications, operating practises, and individuals.

National Cyber Security Centre - NCSC.GOV.UK

Helping in making the United Kingdom the safest place to live and work online. It aids the most critical organisations in the UK, as well as the wider public sector, industry, SMEs, and the general public. When incidents do occur, it provides an effective incident response to minimise harm to the UK, help in recovery, and learn future lessons.

National Data Guardian - GOV.UK

The National Data Guardian (NDG) advises and challenges the health and care system to help ensure that citizens’ confidential information is safeguarded securely and used properly.

Home | ICO

ICO is the UK’s independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals.

Prevent | Counter Terrorism Policing

Prevent vulnerable people from becoming participating in extremism. They collaborate with local government partners and community organisations to find solutions and to support and protect vulnerable people.

Healthcare

NHS

The NHS website connects people to health information and services providing information on health conditions, symptoms, and medicines. Everything is written in simple, clear-to-read and understandable information with pictures and videos and is mobile-friendly. More than 2000 organisations share this content, including other NHS websites, local authorities, charities, and commercial organisations from start-ups to large technology leaders. To ensure safe, accurate and up-to-date information is provided the NHS uses source peer-reviewed scientific research from NHS Evidence and all clinical content has to be signed off by a member of the NHS Digital clinical assurance team.

NHS England » Mental health

One in four adults and one in 10 children experience mental illness, and many more of us know and care for people who do. Since 2013, NHS England has been working to improve the outcomes and experiences of people of all ages with mental health problems, to ensure that mental health is treated on par with physical health. To achieve this, they work closely with service users, carers, other national NHS bodies, and key partners such as social care and the voluntary sector.

National wellbeing - GOV.UK

The National Wellbeing programme was launched in 2010 by the Prime Minister and its goal was to ‘start measuring our progress as a country, not just by how the economy is growing but by how our lives are improving; not just by our standard of living, but by our quality of life.’

Victim Support

Victim Support is an independent charity dedicated to supporting victims of crime and traumatic incidents in England and Wales. They provide specialist help to support people to cope and recover to the point where they feel they are back on track with their lives. They provide help to victims who have suffered from crimes such as domestic abuse, rape and sexual assault, child abuse, antisocial behaviour and hate crimes.

WHO

Dedicated to the well-being of all people and guided by science, the World Health Organisation leads and champions global efforts to give everyone, everywhere an equal chance to live a healthy life. Founded in 1948, WHP is the United States agency that connects nations, partners and people to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable, so that everyone can attain the highest level of health.

Podcasts

Daniel Elizalde - Enterprise Product Leadership Podcast

This is the place where Product Leaders gather to learn best practices from the top minds driving B2B product innovation. Whether you are a Product, Design, Engineering, UX, Data, or Business Leader, this Podcast will give you actionable insights into how top companies approach their products.

Cybernews - 8 Best Cybersecurity Podcasts For 2021

Cybersecurity podcasts allow us to stay up to date as we’re going on with our lives. There are some amazing shows out there for fans to listen to, all available for free.

Humans of Security Archives - Trilateral Research

Ethical AI solutions tackle complex social problems using cutting-edge technologies such as machine learning, natural language processing, data visualisation and integration, and cloud computing, with a strong focus on ethics and data protection as the key catalyst for the sustainable use of AI in the future. Focusing on transparency, accountability, and fairness.

TED Podcasts

Subscribe to listen on Apple Podcasts, the TED Android app, or wherever you get your podcasts.

INSTITUTE OF FOUNDATION STUDIES: Management and Technology Pathway