ERIC indexes hundreds of journals in education and the social sciences and also cover education-related materials from scholarly organizations, professional associations, research centers and policy organizations.
Changes to ERIC from 25 April 2025
Please note this is an evolving situation – updates will be posted here.
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is a key indexing database for education and the social sciences. On March 20, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order to close the Department of Education. ERIC is funded by the Department of Education under the Institution of Education Sciences (IES). As a result:
The number of actively catalogued sources in ERIC will be reduced by approximately 45% from 25 April 2025. Subject matter was not considered during the process to determine which sources would be made inactive.
Journal availability in ERIC will be reduced from approximately 1,200 to 700 titles by 25 April 2025. The full list of deselected journals has not been officially released. There is a grassroots effort to track the deselected journals titles
here Journals cut from ERIC will not have content added to ERIC going forward.
Current guidance is that all records currently in ERIC will remain available. This means that if you ran a search in ERIC previously, those results should remain in the index. It is future journal issues that will be missing.
For example, if a journal is removed from ERIC, articles in ERIC prior to 25 April 2025 will appear in your search results but there will no longer be full-text access. No results will be retrieved for the journal for content published after 25 April as the content will not be indexed in ERIC from that date.
The November 2024 journal title list is viewable
here and has been preserved by the
WayBack Machine.
