Format-Based Resource List

The following format-based resources may be of interest to those responsible for health sciences collection development. The inclusion of a particular resource does not imply endorsement by the Medical Library Association (MLA) or the Collection Development Section (CDS).

Send comments, updates, questions to: Karen Fischer, karen-fischer@uiowa.edu.

Audiovisual and Computer-Based Resources
Tests
Websites with Links to Resources on Tests, Instruments & Surveys

AUDIOVISUALS
Highly Recommended Audiovisual and Computer-Based Learning Program
Titles List
Educational Media and Technologies Section, Medical Library Association
http://emts.mlanet.org/thelist/index.html

Core List of Videos in Dementia
Alzheimer's Association
This list is a reviewed collection of items prepared by the Green-Field Library staff. Winner of the 2006 Daniel T. Richards Prize in Collection Development, Medical Library Association.

TESTS (see Note)
Selected Resources for Medical, Nursing and Psychological Tests, Surveys and Research Instruments
Revised, 4/21/03 | Valerie G. Rankow
Note: Most survey and test instruments must be purchased directly from the publishers.

CINAHL
A fee-based index of the literature of nursing and the allied health professions. Sometimes, a search of CINAHL turns up an article where the test or survey instrument is not only mentioned, but re-printed. There is an Instrument search field in CINAHL.

HaPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments)
A fee-based subscription database for evaluation and measurement tools, questionnaires, and test instruments. HaPI is produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services (BMDS) and is available through commercial database vendors, like Ovid. Behavioral Measurement Database Services charges a modest service fee per instrument. Contact Behavioral Measurement Database Services): PO Box 110287, Pittsburgh PA 15232-0787, United States, (412)687-6850, (412)687-5213 fax

Buros Institute of Mental Measurements Publications
Excellent guide to psychological tests and instruments; publishers of the print Mental Measurements Yearbook, and Tests in Print

Buros: Test Reviews Online

ETS (Educational Testing Service): an extensive library of 20,000 tests and other measurement devices

Neurophysiology Functional Tests and Disease Assessment

Neuropsychology Central Assessment Links
Select "Links" from the main menu.

PsycLit / PsycINFO
A fee-based index of publications that the APA examines regularly to identify psychologically relevant material, including journal articles, dissertations, reports, English-language book chapters and books, and other scholarly documents. PsycInfo contains the data field Assessment Instrument.

WEBSITES WITH LINKS TO RESOURCES ON TESTS, INSTRUMENTS and SURVEYS
American Psychological Association
The APA website provides the guide, "FAQ / Finding Information About Psychological Tests," which tells you where to find what kind of tests.

Florida International University. "Psychological, Educational, and Health Tests and Measurements: Selected Sources." [excellent descriptions and instruction -vgr]

MentalHealth Net has a list of web and other sources for personality assessment instruments.

Stroke Scales & Clinical Assessment Tools | Internet Stroke Center at Washington University

University of Maryland Libraries. "Tests and Measurements."

University of Melbourne Australian Transcultural Mental Health Network. "Research Literature on Multilingual Versions of Psychiatric Assessment Instruments."

University of Michigan Social Work Library. "Resources for Psychological and Educational Tests and Measurements."

University of Minnesota Bio-Medical Library. "Finding Tests, Surveys and Questionnaires."

University of Pittsburgh. "HSLS: Finding Information on Psychological and Psychiatric Testing Instruments"

Western Washington Libraries. "Locating Tests and Testing Information."

Yale Medical Library. "Bibliographic Resource Guide /Behavioral Tests and Measures in the Health Sciences."

The shot-in-the-dark approach sometimes works, when you enter the test title in a good search engine like Google, FastSearch, or AltaVista.

List of tests reprinted with permission from Valerie G. Rankow, MLS

Note: List of test resources used with permission from Valerie G. Rankow, MLS.