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Journal articles and reports in education

Why select this database?

A guide to published and unpublished sources on education. ERIC includes some full-text documents at no charge.

Database details
Subjects
adult, career, and vocational education information and technology
assessment and evaluation language and linguistics
disabilities and gifted education reading and communication
educational management teachers and teacher education
elementary and early childhood education urban education
higher education and many more subjects
Sources Sources include 600+ journals and other materials

Please visit Journals Indexed in ERIC for the current title list.
Number of records Over 1.2 million
Dates covered 1966 to present
Updated Monthly
Producer information

The ERIC database is an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education

ERIC Project
% Computer Sciences Corporation
655 15th Street NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20005
USA
Phone:1-800-LET-ERIC (1-800-538-3742)
Web: http://www.eric.ed.gov
E-mail: ericsupport@csc.com

Note: For documents available electronically, links are provided in the document records to the ERIC data archive. You may download documents as Adobe PDF images. Technical support is available Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm U.S. Eastern Time.
Copyright

Some material in the ERIC database is from copyrighted sources of the respective copyright holders. Users of the bibliographic records from the ERIC database are responsible for compliance with any copyright, patent or trademark restrictions and are referred to the copyright, patent or trademark notices appearing in the original sources, all of which are hereby incorporated by reference.

Index labels and examples of an expert search in ERIC

Use a colon after an index label (for example, au:) when you are not certain of your search terms. Use an equal sign after an index label (au=) for an exact match search. You can search with an index label from any search screen. The information you type overrides any default menu selections. The following examples show sample rather than actual searches.

Search indexes Labels Examples
Keyword kw: coffee and doughnuts
[keyword searches the Abstract, Notes, Source Phrase, Subject, and Title indexes]
Abstract ab: house+
Accession number no: ej557471
Associated institution :in seychelles
Associated institution phrase in= sallie mae, washington dc
Author au: o'hara
ohara
Author phrase au= o'hara, john
ohara john
[last name first]
Corporate author co= council of teachers
Corporate author phrase co= national council of teachers of mathematics, inc., reston, va
Date of entry da: 2005
aug2005
riejan1985
cijmar1985
Descriptor de: tax
Descriptor phrase de= education majors
Document type dt= article ej
document ed
[use to refine other search terms]
Education level phrase el= primary education
First page pg: 5
Identifier id: permutation+
Identifier phrase id= pascal triangle
Issue is: 143
Language phrase ln= korean
(use alone or to limit other search terms;
browse index for available languagess]
Level of availability lv: 1
[Level 1 — Available online if indexed January 1993 onward; otherwise produced only in microfiche. (May have an earlier publication date.)
Level 2 — Produced in microfiche (submitted 1966-2003).
Level 3 — Indexed only.]
Notes nt: attitude+
Peer-reviewed pr: yes
Publication date pd: 1990
[browse index for date formats]
Publication type pt: bibliographies
Publication type phrase pt= non-print media
Report number rn: 565ah70023
Source so: math
Source phrase so= nctm math notes
Standard number sn: 0008-820x
Subject su: +curriculum
Subject phrase su= curriculum development
Target audience ta: teachers
Title ti: british isle+
Title phrase ti= summer programs in the british isles
Volume vo: 33
Year yr: 2004
[use to refine other search terms]