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2025 cuts to the US Department of Education have left the future coverage of ERIC in question. For complementary and current coverage of education literature please consult the Education Source and Educational Administration Abstracts databases, available through EBSCOhost and the Education Research Index, available through ProQuest.
The ERIC database, sponsored by the US Department of Education, provides extensive access to educational-related literature including conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books, and journal articles. Historically, ERIC indexed approximately 14,000 documents and over 20,000 journal articles per year.
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JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, primary sources, and high-quality images. It has an archive of more than 1,000 scholarly, interdisciplinary journals, with full coverage for all but the most current 3-5 years. Images are contributed by universities, museums, and community and private collections. JSTOR is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.