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The BACP is the largest professional body representing counselling and psychotherapy in the UK. Their website is a mine of professional information and includes the BACP Register.

The British Psychological Society is the professional body which represents many psychologists. It aims to promote excellence and ethical practice in the science, education and practical applications of psychology.

PsycINFO is an abstract database that provides systematic coverage of the psychological literature from the 1800s to the present. The database also includes records from the 1600s and 1700s.

CINAHL, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, is the most comprehensive resource for nursing and allied health literature. CINAHL provides indexing for nearly 3,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health.

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.

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.

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.

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