Q. What is ERIC?

The "Educational Resources Information Center" or "ERIC" is the world's largest database of education related information. It is the primary database used by educators, education students, and education administrators.

The database was created in 1966 and it currently contains more than 1.6 million records and links to hundreds of thousands of full-text documents. It includes records for a variety of source types, including journal articles, books, conference papers, curriculum guides, policy papers and more. In addition, it provides an education-specific thesaurus that includes controlled vocabulary to help users find what they need.

We provide access to three different versions of the ERIC database. A lot of resources within ERIC may not be full text - but you can find them in other databases or use Inter-library loan to request access.

Through the UW Libraries there are three portals to ERIC:

• ERIC (EBSCOhost) (Education Resources Information Center) is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text education literature and resources this version is hosted on the EBSCO platform.

• ERIC (Institute of Education Sciences) (Education Resources Information Center) is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text education literature and resources this version is hosted on the Institute of Education Sciences platform.

• ERIC (ProQuest) (Education Resources Information Center) is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text education literature and resources this version is hosted on the ProQuest platform.