ERIC (ERIC)
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A guide to published and unpublished sources on education.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.
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| Sources | Sources include 1,000+ journals and other materials Please visit Journals Indexed in ERIC for the current title list. | ||||||||||||
| Number of records | 1.3 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 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 |
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| 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 on microfiche. Level 2 — Available on microfiche. 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] |