|
Find Articles: Indexes and Databases:
ERIC - Education Resources Information Center
Rutgers Restricted
Access |
|  |
- Browser required
- JavaScript, Cookies Enabled. Internet Explorer 7+; Firefox 8+; Safari 5.1+; Google Chrome 16+.
Internet Explorer 8 users should turn off Compatibility View.
- Plugins required
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Description
- ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is a national online digital library
sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. The
largest education database in the world, ERIC contains over 1.3 million citations for journal
articles, books, research papers, conference papers, technical reports, policy papers,
dissertations, theses, and other materials in the field of education. ERIC provides full text
for 328, 266 items. The digital library includes indexing for 1085 journals, 983 of which are
comprehensively indexed. A majority of the journals are peer-reviewed. The ERIC online
digital library is publicly accessible at http://eric.ed.gov/.
- Help
- Help is available via a link in the upper right corner of every screen.
- For help using these indexes see: How do I find an article on my
topic?
- User tools and features
-
- Journal alerts
and Search history alerts.
- Compatible with RefWorks.
- Saved searches. Free My EBSCOHost account required.
- A visual search tab allows the user to search efficiently across broad subjects, and then
returns a visual map of results, organized by topic.
- iPhone and Android applications.
- Dates covered
- 1966 to the present.
- Updating frequency
- Monthly. Records are added weekly to the publicly accessible ERIC, with monthly uploads forwarded
to commercial vendors (i.e., EBSCO) supporting the digital library.
- Sources
- Scholarly organizations, professional associations, research centers, policy organizations,
university presses, the U.S. Department of Education and other federal agencies, state and local
agencies, Individual contributors submit conference papers, research papers, dissertations, and
theses.
- Type of coverage
- Citations with abstracts for 1966+ and a continually expanding collection of full text educational
documents (i.e. ED numbers). ERIC provides full text for 328,266 records, including materials from
non-journal sources, journals, online submissions, and the ERIC microfiche collection (1966-2004).
RUL contains the full text of many of the journals cited.
- Print counterpart or related resources
-
Research in Education(1968-1974); Resources in Education (1975-January 2000); and
Current index to journals in education: CIJE (1969-2001). See the Library Catalog for holdings.
Alexander Library also owns a complete collection of the educational documents (ED numbers)
available on microfiche. These may be retrieved from Alexander's Current Periodicals/Microforms Room
using the ED number. The ERIC database includes the full text of approximately 301, 380 of these
documents from 1966-2004.
- Producer/content provider
- ERIC Processing and Reference Facility, Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC)
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- EBSCO
|
|
