ERIC
Latest screenshot: 2024-07-19
Access to search interface:
open
Last major interface update:
2013-08-02
Owner of search system:
Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education
Location of system headquarters:
Washington, US
Year of launch:
1964
Type:
Digital library
Help URL:
X-Handle:
Description of search system (by system owner)
ERIC is a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable, Internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information.
Total coverage:
1.87M
Year-over-year growth (2019-2020):
0.94%
Subject coverage:
Social Sciences (56.58 %); Psychology (13.28 %); Arts and Humanities (9.35 %)
Retrospective coverage:
1957–2021
Record types:
24
Open Access records:
N/A
Search functionality and interface
Systematic keyword searching:
extensive
Backward citation searching:
limited
Forward citation searching:
limited
Query builder:
Search history:
Match preview:
Sorting options:
0
Query
Latency with short query:
0.94 seconds
Latency with long query:
2.63 seconds
Controlled vocabulary:
Field codes:
17
Full text search:
Search string length (narrow):
50 terms max.
Search string length (wide):
50 terms max.
Language support: Chinese:
Language support: Cyrillic:
Truncation:
Wildcards:
Keyword position irrelevant:
Longer strings, fewer hits:
Automatic query expansion (stemming):
Verbatim queries:
Reproducible queries (time):
Reproducible queries (locations):
Operators
Search operators:
4
Boolean 'OR':
Boolean 'AND':
Boolean 'NOT':
Proximity operator:
Boolean works exact:
Nested search (parentheses):
Citation search / filtering
Record type filters:
24
Results filters:
13
Suggested related records:
Supported by bibliometric tools:
N/A
Backward citation information:
Backward citation score:
N/A
Forward citation information:
Forward citation score:
N/A
Retrieval
Number of accessible records:
Full
Bulk select records:
Bulk export records:
200
Export formats:
1
API:
open
Bulk select records' backward citations:
Bulk export backward citations:
N/A
Bulk select records' forward citations:
Bulk export forward citations:
N/A
