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ERIC
ERIC is the Educational
Resources Information Center--a federally funded, nationwide information
network designed to provide you with ready access to education literature.
Coverage is from 1966 to the present.
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- What can you get
from ERIC?
- ERIC has more than a
million abstracts including:
- -Journal
articles-(EJ)
- More than 600,000
abstracts of articles from more than 1000 journals.
- -ERIC
Documents-(ED)
- More than 400,000
abstracts of research papers, books, conference presentations, curriculum
guides, and more.
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Going beyond
keyword searching--Using the Thesaurus
Find and use
ERIC descriptors
- Every abstract in ERIC is
indexed with subject terms called descriptors. ERIC descriptors are listed
in The Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors. The thesaurus is available
online from the database. The library also has print copies of
the thesaurus in the reference section--call number REF Z695.1.E3 T49.
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- Example 1)social skills 2)ungraded classes
Another way to find descriptors is to use the descriptors from the most
relevant abstracts. So instead of looking up the correct term(s) first,
let your search do the work for you. Example: retention of students
(repeat a grade)
- Controlled vocabulary that
helps you find the descriptors (subject headings) for your search terms
- Hierarchy that permits
searching various levels--broader, narrower, and related, for example:
Adolescents
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