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Producer:

Institute of Education Sciences

Vendor:

EBSCOhost

Brief Description:

The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education, to provide extensive access to education-related literature.

Full Description:

The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education, to provide extensive access to education-related literature. ERIC contains more than 1,000,000 abstracts of ERIC documents and journal articles on education research and practice from over 1,000 education journals dating back to 1966. ERIC documents, identified by ED number, are mostly non-journal materials such as unpublished research, reference materials, school board policies, theses, or curriculum guides. Many of these are available full text (dating back to 1993) via a link to the Institute of Education Sciences ERIC Web site. One advantage of using the EBSCOhost interface is the ability to search it concurrently with the Professional Development Collection (EBSCOhost) which provides an array of full-text content.

Update Frequency:

Monthly

Coverage:

1966 to present

Number & Type of Contents:

More than 1 million abstracts of journal articles, unpublished research, reference materials, school board policies, theses, and curriculum guides.

Other IPFW Formats:

IPFW owns Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) semiannual and annual cumulations 1969-1991

Call Number:

Reference Z5813 .C8

Tools Available:

An online thesaurus of ERIC descriptors is available.
A list of indexed journals is NO LONGER available from Oryx Press.

Type:

Abstracts, Databases, & Indexes

Subjects:

Consumer & Family Sciences, Counseling, Early Childhood Education, Education, Elementary Education, School Administration, Secondary Education

Liaison:

T. Adkins

URL:

http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=EHOST&defaultdb=eric