A guide to websites that provide authoritative information about 21 subject categories including government & law, history, English, science, facts & statistics, writing & grammar, etc.
Provides information and citations to reviews of over 3,500 educational and psychological tests and measures that appear in Mental Measurements Yearbooks (MMY), Tests in Print, and Test Critiques. Full reviews are available for purchase.
A database of more than 25,000 tests and other measurement devices, most of which were created by authors outside ETS. It makes information on standardized tests and research instruments available to researchers, graduate students and teachers.
GoogleScholaris a variation of Google. It is designed specifically for scholarly literature searches.
Advantages
It’s free to use.
It has a simple, familiar interface that works much like regular Google.
It finds scholarly books, articles, and conference papers from a wide range of disciplines.
Disadvantages
Coverage is not comprehensive. It is a good first place to start researching a paper, but not comprehensive enough to be the only place you look.
Criteria used for selecting “scholarly” materials is not given. Search results can be a mixture of articles and books as well as unpublished manuscripts, course syllabi, and high school term papers, so you must critically evaluate what you find.
Results are not always full-text or free like regular Google. Often the link for an article will take you to the publishers website where the full article is available only if you buy it.
