The database includes all records indexed from 1963 to the present, approximately 1,400,000 records. Presently the largest education database in the world, ERIC contains over one million citations covering research documents, journal articles, technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular materials in the field of education. In addition to ERIC subject descriptors and extensive abstracts, citations include detailed source, geographic, institutional, and availability information. The PsycINFO database covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Over 50,000 references are added annually.
Popular literature is excluded.
For some 2,600 major U.S. national associations it provides full-text information on association materials such as brochures, pamphlets, and membership application forms. A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. Provides complete biographical and bibliographical references for more than 90,000 authors in the U.S. and around the world. This electronic text not only contains definitions for most of the words in the English language but also information on their origins and quotations showing their range of meanings from the time they entered the language to the present. Experiment with these databases, and see what different types of information you can find using each resource.