Coverage from 1983 to date with updates issued monthly. Mental Measurements Yearbook contains the text of the Buros Institute's Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Yearbooks, and is updated every six months to ensure timely access to current information. A valuable resource for academic and professional libraries, the Yearbook provides a convenient tool for educators, counselors, psychologists, personnel directors, lawyers, and medical professionals to locate and evaluate testing instruments. The PsycINFO and PsycLIT databases cover the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Over 50,000 references are added annually.
Popular literature is excluded.
Subjects covered include anthropology, history, industrial relations, information science and library science, law, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, political science, public health, social issues, social work, sociology, substance abuse, urban studies, and women's studies. Academic Index indexes articles in approximately 1000 scholarly journals and popular magazines in the arts, humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Most records contain abstracts, some contain links to the full text of the articles. The Library offers a series of instructional programs designed to introduce students to the Library's resources and to enable them to more effectively utilize these materials. Librarians can provide students with proof of attendance if this is required by faculty.