Education Abstracts covers 400 English language periodicals. It encompasses all aspects of education including administration, teaching methods, and curriculum. The print edition counterpart to this database, the Education Index, published by the H.W. Wilson Company began in 1929. The ERIC, Educational Resources Information Center, database covers all aspects of education and educational research, and includes both abstracts of published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics. Both the Cambridge Scientific version of the ERIC database and the OCLC version includes the searchable Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors.
Access is from on campus only.
Many of the ERIC documents are lengthy and may take some time to download. Pre-1996 ERIC documents are accessible via microfiche in the Periodicals Service Center on the third floor of Library North. ERIC document microfiche are arranged by ERIC accession numbers. Search the index by author, title, or subject. Some, but not all, of the journals covered by Exceptional Child Education Resources are also covered in the ERIC database.