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Rutgers off-campus users must log-in for access to Rutgers restricted resources.
Non-Rutgers users should use the publicly available
www.eric.ed.gov
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Features: Alert Service
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The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a national
education database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.
Presently the largest education database in the world, ERIC contains over
1.2 million citations for materials in the field of education. This site includes indexing
for more than 650 journals, about 500 of which are comprehensively indexed.
It also indexes over 100,000 documents (ED numbers), many of which are full text online.
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Dates covered
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1966 to the present, though some earlier materials may be included.
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Updating frequency
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Monthly.
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Research documents, many of which are done under government contract,
journal articles, technical reports, policy papers, program descriptions
and evaluations, and curricular materials.
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Type of coverage
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Citations with abstracts for 1966+ and a continually expanding
collection of full text educational documents (i.e. ED numbers).
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Print Counterpart or related resources
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Research in Education(1968-1974); Resources in Education (1975-January 2000); and Current index to journals in education: CIJE (1969-2001). See IRIS 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. Libraries within RUL may also contain many of the journals cited; search IRIS by journal title to ascertain holdings.
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Provider
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Producer or content provider: ERIC Processing and Reference Facility,
Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC)
Vendor or electronic presentation provider: Ovid Technologies, Inc.
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Help
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From the top right of the OVID search screen, click on the "Help"
icon. Instructions are provided on basic and advanced searching techniques.
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