APA PsycTests® call for tests
Authors of tests and commercial test publishers are invited to provide their content for possible inclusion in the database. The tests and the literature describing them will be readily discovered through APA PsycTests.
Authors of tests
Bring attention to your test development work—send your tests and measures to APA PsycTests. Both your tests and the literature describing them will be readily discovered if they are included in APA PsycTests.
Users will link from APA PsycTests directly to APA PsycInfo® and APA PsycExtra® , as well as to APA PsycArticles® and other full-text sources.
Increase the possibility for more citations to your research and expand your professional contacts.
What kinds of tests will be considered?
Nature of tests
APA PsycTests features a broad range of coverage. Instruments may be achievement and aptitude tests, intelligence tests, tests of cognitive functioning, occupational tests, personality tests, and so on.
Size of tests
There is no minimum or maximum test size for submission.
Format of tests
Tests submitted in text format will be converted to PDF format. If you have test content in other media, please consult with APAopens in new window before sending it.
Ownership of tests
You must own the rights to the test, or have retained the rights to re-use the test in future works of your own, or obtained permission from the rightsholder.
If you transferred copyright to a journal publisher upon publishing the test in an article, please review the copyright document you signed. Many such forms allow authors to re-publish PORTIONS of their article in other works that they also author; thus submitting the test to APA PsycTests could meet this criterion.
If the test was published in an APA journal, it can be submitted directly to APA PsycTests. Tests that are in the public domain can certainly be considered for APA PsycTests.
Reporting of tests
The test must be described in the scholarly literature. This may be within a journal article, book, technical report, or dissertation.
How to send a test to APA
If you have a test you would like included in APA PsycTests, send a copy along with a copy of a related citation (article, book, dissertation, or technical report) to Testsopens in new window. You can also include associated materials such as instructions or scoring information.
If you have questions about submission send an email to Testsopens in new window or call 800-374-2722.
We ask authors to sign a non-exclusive agreement (PDF, 36KB)opens in new window acknowledging that they own the rights to their tests or that they are permitted to include their tests in works that they author. The non-exclusive agreement authorizes APA to include the content in APA PsycTests, but it does not transfer or convey any other rights to APA.
Email the signed agreement to Testsopens in new window or fax it to 202-336-5633.
Commercial test publishers
APA will include structured, bibliographic descriptions of tests published commercially in APA PsycTests. The test descriptions will identify the test publisher and include a link to the publisher web page.
We ask the test publisher to sign a non-exclusive, royalty-free agreement authorizing APA to create the test descriptions and include them in APA PsycTests.
Please contact the APA at Testsopens in new window for information on participation.
Contact us
If you have further questions about getting your tests into APA PsycTests, please email usopens in new window.
