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ERIC
ERIC

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Educational Information Resources Centre
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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.

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17/06/2025 ERIC Indexing Update

Following the award of the most recent ERIC contract, IES and the ERIC team conducted an anlysis of the recency, coverage and operating status of ERIC’s current sources of content. Based on that analysis, ERIC will no longer index 159 sources (58 journals and 101 non-journals).  More than 1,800 sources, including 1,215 journals and 608 non-journals will continue to be indexed.  The updates can be viewed in full at ERIC’s listing of journals and non-journals.  IES have not provided a listing of titles no longer available in ERIC. There is a grassroots effort to track the deselected journals titles here 

IES has released new resources to assist users with learning more about ERIC:

 

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. 
Other resources such as National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) will also be affected by changes to the US Department of Education. 

 

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