Not only do they provide important information about scientific publications, testing methods, and authors from the German-speaking psychology community, but they also offer users the possibility to download psychometric instruments and plain-language summaries of metaanalyses.
Dipl.-Psych. Katja Trillitzsch
Head of Information Services
+49 (0) 651 603419-159kt@leibniz-psychology.org
A freely accessible search portal for psychological references and publications based on a semantic data model of the psychological field. We provide a knowledge graph that is fed by the databases PSYNDEX Lit and PSYNDEX Tests, author profiles, as well as the repositories PsychArchives and Open Test Archive. In addition to test and literature references, it also includes research data, analysis code, preregistrations, full-text publications, test reviews, and plain-language summaries.
The database PSYNDEX includes bibliographic references of all psychological literature produced in German-speaking countries since 1977. The database contains bibliographic information and subject-specific indexing of more than 410,000 records in German and English (including reference lists from 2009 onwards). PSYNDEX is designed to allow comparative searches with international databases such as PsycINFO and PubMed.
The PSYNDEX Tests database is a comprehensive source of information on psychological and educational test procedures. Following standardized criteria, scales, questionnaires, interview methods, observation techniques, testing apparatuses, computer-based diagnostic methods, and other diagnostic instruments from all areas of psychology and educational science used in German-speaking countries are described and evaluated. More than 8,600 test descriptions are included, of which approximately 4,000 are described in depth.
This open-access repository features over 230 test instruments from various areas of psychology and related disciplines. After developing and validating them scientifically, test developers make them available to other researchers and educators for download at no charge under a protected Creative Commons license. Clinical assessment instruments for practitioners are also available.
KLARpsy provides information and interactive content for the interested public. Our KLARpsy texts summarize research findings from psychological reviews in easy-to-understand language. Working together with our test readers, we create the KLARpsy texts on various topics in psychology. The plain-language summaries are complemented by the KLARsaurus, our interactive dictionary of psychological terms.
PsychTopics is our tool for exploring research topics and trends in psychology. The tool provides an automated overview of how the psychological research literature from German-speaking countries is evolving and identifies the most frequently addressed topics.