Education Resources Information Center

Education Resources Information Center

The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces a large international database of journal and non-journal education literature. The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database as well as for submitting materials so they can be considered for inclusion in the database. ERIC provides access to bibliographic records of journal and non-journal literature indexed from 1966 to the present. ERIC also contains a growing collection of full-text materials in Adobe PDF format including the legacy ERIC Digests.

The ERIC collection includes bibliographic records (citations, abstracts, and other pertinent data) for more than 1.2 million items indexed since 1966, including:

• journal articles
• books
• research syntheses
• conference papers
• technical reports
• policy papers, and
• other education-related materials

Prior to January 2004, the ERIC network was comprised of sixteen subject-specific clearinghouses, adjunct and affiliate clearinghouses, and a number of support components. Each of the sixteen clearinghouses recommended materials for inclusion in the ERIC database, but also maintained additional extensive resources available by contacting the clearinghouse. As of January 2004, the ERIC clearinghouses were closed as part of a reorganization by ERIC's parent agency, the U.S. Department of Education. Some clearinghouses have transferred their operations to other institutions; others have shut down entirely.

See also

• Digital library

External links

• ERIC website
• ERIC Digests - Full-text reports on educational topics prepared by the ERIC Clearinghouses.
• New ERIC News - by librarian Kate Corby at Michigan State University.
• Educational Databases and Resources - Library of Congress summary of online ERIC resources.

Agencies under the United States Department of Education

Secretary of Education Office for Civil Rights • Institute of Education Sciences Deputy Secretary of Education Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools • Office of Innovation and Improvement • Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services • Office of English Language Acquisition • Office of Elementary and Secondary Education Under Secretary of Education Office of Federal Student Aid • Office of Vocational and Adult Education • Office of Postsecondary Education Programs National Center for Education Statistics • National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research • Office of Migrant Education • Education Resources Information Center • National Assessment of Educational Progress Independent Organizations Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance • National Institute for Literacy • National Assessment Governing Board • National Board for Education Sciences • White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities • White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities • White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans

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