51

Percent of colleges with
wireless networks in the classroom

230.9

Meters above street level of the world’s highest library,
housed in the JW Marriott Hotel in Shanghai, China

206,000

New books published in 2005 in the United Kingdom,
the world’s leader in book publishing

12

Percent of Internet users
who have downloaded a podcast

1,286,000

Dollar value of a grant
awarded to OCLC by the Gates Foundation
to research a national library marketing campaign

Reloaded and revamped

An enhanced version of the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) database with additional access points is now available on the OCLC First Search service. The reloaded database contains three new fields that ERIC introduced in 2005 for materials published in 2004 onward.

• The Education Level field identifies the specific education community for which the resource is intended and can be searched in the advanced and expert interfaces. Previously the information was included as a Descriptor.

• The Peer Reviewed field indicates if a journal is peer reviewed and can be used as a search limiter or as an index in the expert search mode.

• The Reference Count tag is the number of references in an article. This information previously had been included in the Abstract.

ERIC provides access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to free full text. Covering 1966 to the present, ERIC indexes 630 journals and documents from 350 organizations and includes journal articles, books, conference proceedings, technical reports and other education-related materials. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences.

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