Communications/Film Databases
- Communication & mass media complete This link opens in a new windowCommunication & Mass Media Complete provides an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media.
- Film & television literature index with full text This link opens in a new windowSubject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews
Sociological/Psychological Databases
- PsycINFOA good resource for psychology as well as psychological aspects of medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and other topics.
- Sociological abstracts This link opens in a new window
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Research Measures
- APA PsycTESTS This link opens in a new window
Provides access to psychology tests and measures. Includes tests originally developed for research but not commercially available and some commercially available tests with links to the publisher.
- Mental measurements yearbook with Tests in print This link opens in a new windowProvides users with a comprehensive guide to contemporary testing instruments. Contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. Provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). Limitable by test category, administration, publication date, and reviews. EBSCOhost
- Health and Psychosocial InstrumentsProvides citations to information about tests not the full text of actual tests. Facilitates locating a variety of instruments in journal articles and book chapters. 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. Published by the Behavioral Measurement Database Services and updated regularly since 1985. Assists researchers and students to identify measures needed for research studies, grants, dissertations, and program evaluation. Searchable fields include author, title, publication name, subjects, measure, sample, subscale, abstracts. EBSCOhost.
Multidisciplinary Databases
- Academic search complete This link opens in a new windowA multidisciplinary database - sometimes it can be a good starting place in a search, sometimes it can be a last resort.
- Web of scienceA multidisciplinary database strongest in the sciences.
- OneSearchUse OneSearch to search across many of the resources to which Baylor provides access (books, e-books, articles, dissertations, etc.). To search beyond the Baylor Libraries, check the box to "Include results from outside your library's collection" after you get your search results or on the advanced search page before you run your search.
