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Hi! I am looking for old (<2000) online user manuals. Especially for tests like psychological tests. The providers do not publish them. Anyone able to help me locate those?

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Brief, practical plan that expands on 's library suggestion and answers 's "which library" question for 's request for pre-2000 user manuals (especially psychological tests).

Libraries and archives to try first: the Internet Archive/Wayback Machine (https://web.archive.org/) for old publisher pages; the Internet Archive text collection (https://archive.org/) and scanned books on https://books.google.com/ and https://www.hathitrust.org/ for manuals that were printed or bundled in books. Use WorldCat (https://www.worldcat.org/) to find physical copies in university or national libraries and request them by interlibrary loan. Major national libraries (Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/) and large university libraries often hold older technical manuals and test batteries.

Specialized test resources and indexes: Mental Measurements Yearbook / Buros Center for Testing (test descriptions and citations) at https://buros.org/mental-measurements-yearbook. Academic databases such as ERIC (https://eric.ed.gov/) and APA PsycNET (https://psycnet.apa.org/) are commonly available through university libraries and can point to manuals or technical reports. Dissertations and institutional repositories often reproduce test appendices; search ProQuest or institutional archives.

Search workflow and tips:

  • Start with the test name + edition + terms like "technical manual", "manual", or "scoring instructions" in quotes.
  • Check Wayback snapshots of known publisher URLs and university course pages.
  • Use WorldCat to locate physical manuals and request via ILL if necessary.
  • If access is blocked, contact the test author/rights holder or a reference librarian; many libraries can locate restricted material or suggest redacted copies for research.

Caution: many psychological test manuals are copyrighted and restricted for test security; access is often provided only for legitimate research or educational purposes.

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I wish I could help. Maybe try a library.

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What library do you mean?

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