Education: Article Indexes

Databases Restricted to Education 

The ERIC Database

• ERIC provides unlimited access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials, with hundreds of new records added twice weekly. Many full-text non-journal documents are now available for free. Most of the free documents were published after 1993, but a retrospective conversion is in progress and you may find full text for older documents, also.
  
• ERIC Documents on microfiche are available on Floor 1 and must be requested at the Reference Desk on Floor 2. Microfiche readers and copiers are available on Floor 2. Using the microfiche is currently the only way to access most of the ERIC Documents produced before 1993.
• ERIC is available from numerous sources. There is no "best" vendor or way to search, but all of the versions have their own particular strengths.

ERIC (OVID interface)

• The OVID interface allows unlimited boolean searching. For example, you can search for SCHOOL HOLDING POWER or ACADEMIC PERSISTENCE or STUDENT ATTRITION or WITHDRAWAL (EDUCATION).
• The OVID interface also links directly to the thesaurus after a search term has been entered, making the controlled vocabulary easier to use.
  

ERIC (EBSCO interface)

• Allows the user to search the full text of articles that are available through EBSCO.
• Allows for simultaneous seraching of ERIC and Academic Search Premier.

ERIC (provided by the Department of Education)

• Free to anyone.
• Does not allow us to place our "Find It" service button on the citation. It is necessary to click on "Find in a Library".

Education Abstracts

• Education Abstracts provides cover-to-cover indexing over 550 education journals. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996.  Although a smaller database than ERIC, it includes book reviews and some shorter articles not included in ERIC.  The emphasis is on indexing key journals.