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The official website for the Office for National Statistics and the UK Statistics Authority. Topics covered include Crime and Justice, Government, Health and Social Care and People and Places.

Each year NatCen's British Social Attitudes survey asks around 3,000 people what it's like to live in Britain and what they think about how Britain is run. The survey measures and tracks changes in people's social, political and moral attitudes.

A unified point of access to data from ESDS, Census Programme, Secure Data Service and others which makes it the UK's largest collection of digital social research data. Includes Census data from 1971 to 2011.

These introductory level interactive modules are designed for users who want to get to grips with keys aspects of survey, longitudinal and aggregate data.

The UK's largest collection of digital research data in the social sciences and humanities, including data from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the National Archive.

Free access to a collection of UK government public information films from 1945 to the early 21st century.

Community Care Inform is an online resource designed to help professionals working with children and young people make and evidence their decisions.

The adult version of the popular Community Care Inform resource.

Scopus is a database of abstracts and citations for scholarly journal articles. It covers nearly 18,000 international journal titles in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields. Scopus also offers author profiles which cover affiliations, number of publications and their bibliographic data, references and details on the number of citations each published document has received.

Social Care Online is produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence and is the UK's most extensive free database of social care information. The database includes research briefings, reports, government documents, journal articles, events and websites.
Announcement made on 1st March 2023: due to a combination of funding restrictions and falling usage, the content of Social Care Online is no longer being updated.

The Campbell Collaboration is an international research network that produces systematic reviews of the effects of social interventions in Crime & Justice, Education, International Development, and Social Welfare.

A new free online service from the British Library offering a single point of access to the BL's vast print and digital collections on social welfare and social policy. Items not available in full text online can be ordered by interlibrary loan.

This journal offers access to research, viewpoints and commentary on current policy in the field of adult protection and safeguarding adults. It is the only journal to address developments across all adult services user groups in adult protection and safeguarding vulnerable adults.

A large collection of reference works e.g. language dictionaries, subject dictionaries, encyclopedias published by Oxford University Press. A good place to start for a definition, or for general overviews of many topics.

Provides the full text of articles in daily and Sunday newspapers published in the U.K. as well as a number of trade publications.

Our search engine for finding print and online resources

Further guidance on our web pages

Guide to Library and IT services, in the University-wide induction resource for new students.

Some definitions of words we use in Computing & Library Services

A guide to using artificial intelligence (AI) in your academic studies.

A guide to the APA 7th style, which is the official University referencing standard

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Guide to using ebooks at the University of Huddersfield

Guide to newspaper resources online

How to request items not held at our University Library

Form to request Library purchases a book not already in stock

How to visit other libraries, including using the SCONUL scheme