Arden Library

Library Databases

Academic Search Complete

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.

eBook Central

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

EBSCO’s eBook Collection

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

EBSCO’s Legal Source

A 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.

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.

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).

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.

Referencing Guide

As a Social Science, 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.

British Sociological Association

The British Sociological Association is a scholarly and professional society for sociologists in the United Kingdom, and was founded in 1951. It publishes the academic journals Sociology, Work, Employment and Society and Cultural Sociology as well as its membership newsletter Network and a monthly eNewsletter.

International Sociological Association

The International Sociological Association (ISA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to scientific purposes in the field of sociology and social sciences. It is an international sociological body, gathering both individuals and national sociological organizations.

The Society for Social Research

The membership organisation for social researchers in the UK, Ireland and beyond.

Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology

Provides educational, programmatic, mentoring, networking, and policy resources in a supportive professional community.

American Sociological Association

The national professional membership association for sociologists and others who are interested in sociology.

Podcasts

SAGE podcasts

Podcasts and vodcasts to find out more about the ideas, research and aims of some of the papers published in Sociology.

Thinking Allowed

Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society works and discusses current ideas on how we live today.

Social Science Bites

A series of illuminating podcasts, where leading social scientists present their perspectives on how our social world is created, and how social science can help us understand people and how they behave.

New Books in Sociology

Interviews with sociologists about their new books.

Sage Sociology

The official free Podcast site from SAGE for Sociology.

The Sociological Review

The Sociological Review podcast provides the latest contributions from The Sociological Review, a journal known for publishing critical and creative works about society and social relations.

Useful Websites

British Sociological Association - Careers

Prospects - Careers

Discover Sociology

Resources for Social Science Students

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 Kieron Rooney