The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to augment American education by increasing and facilitating the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.

Subject Coverage 
Major areas of coverage include:

• Adult, Career, and Vocational Education
• Counseling and Personnel Services
• Elementary and Early Childhood Education
• Education Management
• Handicapped and Gifted Children
• Higher Education
• Information Resources
• Junior Colleges
• Languages and Linguistics
• Reading and Communication Skills
• Rural Education and Small Schools
• Science, Mathematics, and Environmental Education
• Social Studies and Social Science Education
• Teacher Education
• Tests, Measurement, and Evaluation
• Teacher Education
• Test, Measurement, and Evaluation
• Urban Education

Update Frequency
Monthly.

Thesaurus Availability
A thesaurus is available.