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The ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, reports, audiovisual media, and monographs.
•"ERIC Documents" (identified by the ED prefix) are "grey literature" documents such as policy statements, reports, etc, that are not published elsewhere.
Free access to ERIC is available via the US Dept. of Education
•A limited number of full text sources are available via this portal
•This version provides the most comprehensive information about ERIC and extensive Help with ERIC searching
Access ERIC via BobCat - Databases tab
Use Advanced Search
"To plan your search using ERIC Descriptors, follow these steps:
•If you'd like to take a shortcut, simply do a keyword search, retrieve a record that looks relevant to your topic, and then examine the Descriptors. You can click on one of the Descriptors to start a new search."
Adapted from ERIC