Arden Library

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.

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.

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 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

A collection of 470 full text journal titles.

EBSCO Psychology eBook Collection

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

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).

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.

Research Tools

APA PsycTests

APA PsycTests is a repository of items associated with psychological measures, scales, surveys, and other instruments essential to the research needs of professionals, students, and educators across the behavioural and social sciences.

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 sing up to Gorilla using your Arden University email address. Please follow this guideline to complete your registration. If you need any help, please contact Psychology Research Queries to ask for support.

PsyToolKit for Online Research Projects

A free-to-use toolkit for demonstrating, programming, and running cognitive-psychological experiments and surveys, including personality tests.

Sign up for the FREE version

PsyToolkit: Creating a Survey

SPSS

Statistical package for social sciences, 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 Psychology Research Queries

JAMOVI

Jamovi provides a complete suite of analyses, statistical spreadsheets, syntax modes,s and other features.

To download Jamovi, please use the ‘solid’ version. For support with Jamovi you can access the user manual.

If you need any support, please visit the Guidance for using all the tools in Jamovi or contact Psychology Research Queries to ask for support.

Referencing Guide

As a Psychology student (single) you will be following APA. This includes BSc Psychology with Counselling. You can download the complete referencing guide here:

AU Guide to APA Referencing

If you are studying a Joints programme (e.g. psychology and criminology) or are a Foundation Pathway Student (e.g. psychology with foundation pathways or Law and psychology with foundation pathways) 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 Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)

The British Association for Counelling and Psychotherapy is a registered charity providing services to members, commissioning research or campaigning.

British Psychological Society

The British Psychological Society is a registered charity which acts as the representative body for psychology and psychologists in the UK, and is responsible for the promotion of excellence and ethical practice in the science, education, and application of the discipline.

European Federation of Psychologists Association

The European Federation of Psychologists' Associations is the umbrella organization of national societies in the field of psychology that are located in the European Economic Area.

American Psychological Association (APA)

APA is the leading scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States, with more than 121,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students as its members.

Australian Psychological Association

APS is the leading association for psychologists in Australia, representing more than 24,000 members

The Health and Care Professions Council

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

Podcasts

PsychCrunch

PsychCrunch is the podcast from the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest, exploring whether the findings from psychological science can make a difference in real life. Just how should we live, according to psychology?

The Psychologist

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

The Dear lecturer

It contains a number of episodes covering different topics relating to studying psychology at university, as well as some guest interviews with academics from different disciplines, and a series of spotlights of individuals for mental health awareness.

Squiggly Careers

They are the founders of Amazing If, an award-winning company with a mission to make careers better for everyone. They described themselves as ‘experts in careers, how careers are changing and what that means for people’s jobs today and working lives in the future.

Association for Business Psychology (ABP)

It promotes ‘professional excellence and a community of practice in business psychology’, for anyone who has an interest in and respect for psychology at work, in how psychology shapes them and their ability to lead and engage others.

Conversations in Psychology - School of Psychology Newsletter

Download your copy of Conversations in Psychology here:

Conversations in Psychology - July 2023

Conversations in Psychology - March 2023

Conversations in Psychology - December 2022

Conversations in Psychology - July 2022

Conversations in Psychology - February 2022

Conversations in Psychology - September 2021

Conversations in Psychology - May 2021

Conversations in Psychology - February 2021

Conversations in Psychology - December 2020

Conversations in Psychology - October 2020

Conversations in Psychology - August 2020

Conversations in Psychology - June 2020

Conversations in Psychology - April 2020

Conversations in Psychology - February 2020

Conversations in Psychology - December 2019

Conversations in Psychology - October 2019

Conversations in Psychology - August 2019

Useful Websites

International Personality Item Pool

Open Science

The Psychologist

Resources for Psychology Students

Journal of European Psychology Students

The Journal of European Psychology Students (JEPS) is an open-access, double-blind, peer-reviewed journal for psychology students worldwide. JEPS is published by European Federation of Psychology Students’ Associations since 2009. By ensuring that authors are always provided with extensive feedback, JEPS gives psychology students the chance to gain experience in publishing and to improve their scientific skills. Furthermore, JEPS provides students with the opportunity to share their research and to take a first step toward a scientific career.

Psychometrics & Scales:

Assessments by Paul Spector
COPE inventory
Positive Psychology Centre
Links To Assessments and Other Assessment Websites

Psychology