Sorry about the delay in posting this week. It's been pretty chaotic in the library with the recarpeting and painting.
Most of you use the ERIC database via the EBSCO interface on a regular basis, which provides direct access to all of our journals. But are you aware of some of the major changes to the database content that have occurred in the past two years? The last reauthorization of ERIC updated its mission to concentrate on research related documents, which has lead to an updating of the list of journals. Some titles such are the Chronicle of Higher Education, Education Digest and Instructor are no longer being indexed because they do not include research based articles.
ERIC has also raised the bar for ERIC documents with a new, more rigorous selection policy. They are currently asking for feedback on proposed changes to how they indicate peer reviewed for these documents. They are also working on how to incorporate grey literature such as Pew Reports and other 'think tank' reports into the database since they often include significant data. The submission process for those who have documents they wish to be included in the database has also been simplified.
These changes do have an impact on the results you now receive when searching. ERIC is still the go to database for high quality, research based resources. However, if you or your students are looking for more practical, hands-on and/or news related articles, I suggest you go to Education Research Complete.
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