UBC Library: Psychological Tests and Measurements
Tests Home Page
Identifying Tests
Locating Test Reviews and Critiques
Finding Books in the Library Catalogue
Finding Journal Articles in Indexes and Databases
Tracking Tests Down
Dictionaries, Handbooks and Encyclopedias
Websites

Websites

Among the following websites are guides to locating, selecting, and using psychological tests and measures, databases of tests, indexes to test resources, and more.

The American Psychological Association's "Finding Information about Psychological Tests" FAQs
http://www.apa.org/science/faq-findtests.html

Step by step guide to selecting, locating, and acquiring both published and unpublished tests.  Sections include "Finding a Particular Type of Test", "Locating Test Publishers", and "Purchasing Tests."
Buros Insitute
http://www.unl.edu/buros/
This website, from the publishers of the Mental Measurements Yearbooks and Tests in Print, includes instructions for using its various publications.
Mental Health Net -- Assessment Resources
http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/center_index.php/id/18
Annotated and rated links to a huge variety of web resources including test publishers, test locators, listservs, mailing lists, journals, and professional organizations.
Psychwatch Assessment Page
http://www.psychwatch.com/assessment_page.htm
Scroll down to "Assessment Sites and Materials on the Net" for links to test publishers, organizations, reviews, online tests, and more.
Quality of Life Instruments Database
http://www.qlmed.org/
This database in the field of health-related quality of life (QoL) is dedicated to those involved in the evaluation of health outcomes such as academics researchers, physicians, students, pharmaceutical companies, health authorities and international organizations. Its aim is to help researchers find relevant and reliable information on QoL and health outcomes instruments in an easy and practical way.

Prepared by Deborah Hutchison and Sheryl Adam
Koerner Library -- Humanities and Social Sciences Division
Updated: August 2006
© The University of British Columbia Library, 2009