For a listing of the stopwords that are used by this ERIC database search software, click here . Definitions of Searchable ERIC Fields Keyword - Any word that defines the topic and appears in the document citation. In instances where there are more than two authors, ERIC citations lists the first author then And Others , e.g. Eisenberg, Michael And Others. Author searches should be entered by Last Name then First Name. For example, Eisenberg Michael.
Punctuation is ignored.
Title - Each word in the title. ERIC Number - The unique number assigned to each ERIC entry, ED stands for ERIC Documents and EJ stands for ERIC Journal. Journal Citation - Title of the journal in which the article appears. Descriptor - Subject terms found in the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors that characterize substantive content. Identifier - Additional identifying terms not found in the Thesaurus including new terminology and proper nouns.