Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Sciences - MIDSS

MIDSS will be important to social scientists for a number of reasons:

- It will serve as a repository for tests and measures that have been described in journals, dissertations, technical reports, and books.
- It will enable researchers to trace the lineage of tests and measures over time.
- It will significantly reduce incidence of researchers and students making up tests (and duplicating work that has already been done) when they cannot find one that suits their research.
- It will support the improvement of tests and measures.
MIDSS will be important to social scientists for a number of reasons:
MIDSS will be important to social scientists for a number of reasons:
- It will serve as a repository for tests and measures that have been described in journals, dissertations, technical reports, and books.
- It will enable researchers to trace the lineage of tests and measures over time.
- It will significantly reduce incidence of researchers and students making up tests (and duplicating work that has already been done) when they cannot find one that suits their research.
- It will support the improvement of tests and measures.
- It will provide a database for researchers to ‘deposit’ measures that they have developed and increase the likelihood that they will be used.
- It will increase the impact of authors' works by making the primary data collecting tools available to others and this will lead to a secondary effect of increased citations for instruments that are used.
- It will serve as a repository for tests and measures that have been described in journals, dissertations, technical reports, and books.
- It will enable researchers to trace the lineage of tests and measures over time.
- It will significantly reduce incidence of researchers and students making up tests (and duplicating work that has already been done) when they cannot find one that suits their research.
- It will support the improvement of tests and measures.
- It will provide a database for researchers to ‘deposit’ measures that they have developed and increase the likelihood that they will be used.
- It will increase the impact of authors' works by making the primary data collecting tools available to others and this will lead to a secondary effect of increased citations for instruments that are used.
- It will provide a database for researchers to ‘deposit’ measures that they have developed and increase the likelihood that they will be used.
- It will increase the impact of authors' works by making the primary data collecting tools available to others and this will lead to a secondary effect of increased citations for instruments that are used.

The development of the MIDSS is supported through funding by the Irish Social Sciences Platform (ISSP) under the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions, administered by the Higher Education Authority and co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).