All About ERIC
The ERIC Database
ERIC is the largest education database in the world-containing more than 1 million
bibliographic records of journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides,
conference papers, and books. Each year approximately 32,000 new records are added. The
ERIC database is available in many formats (including printed indexes, CD-ROM, and online) at
thousands of locations. Wherever you
choose to run a computer search of the ERIC database, the result of the search will be an
annotated bibliography of document and journal literature on your topic.
ERIC Documents
ERIC documents constitute about 40 percent of the ERIC database. Of the more than 440,000
ERIC document (ED) resumes in the database, 96 percent are research/technical reports,
conference papers/speeches, project/program descriptions, opinion papers/essays, or teaching
guides. More than 18,000 published books have been abstracted in ERIC. ERIC has arrangements
with more than 2,300 organizations to receive their publications for the database.
These organizations include universities, research centers, state departments of education,
professional associations, commercial publishers, and more than 25 federal departments and
agencies. ERIC document resumes appear in the monthly issues of Resources in Education
(RIE), available from the
U.S. Government Printing Office, and in online and CD-ROM versions of the ERIC database. Below is a typical ERIC document
resume.
ERIC Journal Articles
Journal articles constitute about 60 percent of the ERIC database and currently total about
600,000. ERIC indexes more than 1000 journals, some cover to cover and others on a more
selective basis. ERIC Clearing-houses subscribe to journals within their scope of interest
areas, select the articles to be listed in ERIC, catalog and index them, and write brief
annotations. ERIC journal article resumes appear in the monthly issues of Current Index
to Journals in Education (CIJE), published by
Oryx Press, and in online and CD-ROM versions of the ERIC database. Below is a typical
ERIC journal article resume.
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