Psychology Basics

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content. Coverage: 1861 - present

Access to a body of well over 8,000 University of Cincinnati electronic dissertations and theses, this is the best link to the broadest collection of electronic UC dissertations. The time period covers mainly from 1955 to the present. To acquire the dissertations electronically, users request the full text from UMI (ProQuest) and are sent a link and a password to access the dissertation. Dissertations from 1997 forward are available in the OhioLINK ETD at ETD (Electronic Theses and Dissertations). Coverage: 1955 to present

Electronic Thesis and Dissertations.

PsycTESTS is a research database that provides access to psychological tests¸ measures¸ scales and other assessments as well as descriptive and administrative information

This site provides full text access to over 10¸000 instruments from over 120 compilation volumes of test resources. Most of these volumes are available in the OhioLINK catalog. The instruments accessed through this collection are largely unpublished. Information on published tests available from test publishers is available in the electronic version of the Mental Measurements Yearbook and in the print publication Tests in Print. Each record contains (as noted in the source volume): Test title¸ test acronym¸ copyright or publication date(s)¸ author(s)¸ source citation¸ page or accession number.

Now combined with Mental Measurement Yearboooks - see Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e.¸ questionnaires¸ interview schedules¸ checklists¸ index measures¸ coding schemes/ manuals¸ rating scales¸ projective techniques¸ vignettes/scenarios¸ tests) in the health fields¸ psychosocial sciences¸ organizational behavior¸ and library and information science. HAPI assists researchers¸ practitioners¸ educators¸ administrators¸ and evaluators¸ including students¸ to identify measures needed for research studies¸ grant proposals¸ client/patient assessment¸ class papers/projects¸ theses/dissertations¸ and program evaluation. By creating an organized resource of previously unavailable measurement information¸ HAPI: (a) provides a means of locating a variety of instruments¸ (b) helps to reduce inefficiency and cost¸ and (c) eliminates duplication and "reinvention of the wheel."