ERIC is a national information system sponsored by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement within the U.S. Department of Education. It is designed to provide users with ready access to primarily English-language literature dealing with education and closely related fields. It does this through a variety of products and services (i.e. databases, abstract journals, microfiche documents, document reproductions, etc.)
The ERIC index is made up of 2 parts--Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) with journal article citations and abstracts from over 750 professional journals and Resources in Education(RIE) with document citations and abstracts on microfiche. ERIC documents include materials NOT published in journals, including conference proceedings, curriculum guides, speeches, handbooks, workbooks, analytical reports, opinion papers.
Coverage in both parts of ERIC is from 1966 to the present. A few of the articles indexed in ERIC are now full text.

• ERIC Digests: http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/index/

  Full-text collection of almost 2,000 4-5 page summaries of the most recent educational research. Coverage is from 1992 to the present.

• ERIC & Related Resources: www.libraries.wright.edu/libnet/subj/edu/eric_resguide.html

  Includes AskERIC, the ERIC Clearinghouses and adjunct clearinghouse sites, with some full-text documents.

Education Abstracts covers 478 international English language periodicals, yearbooks, and book series in the field of education. It provides citations and abstracts to articles and chapters on a broad scope of topics in education and related fields. Other areas of coverage include videotape and movie reviews, book reviews, computer program reviews, and citations to law cases. Though Education Index, the print version of Education Abstracts, began in 1929, its electronic version only goes back to 1983.
Up to 1/2 of the periodicals in Education Abstracts are now full-text with links to the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center and articles from database producers H.W. Wilson and UMI.

1. Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography (1927+)
   Dunbar Abs/Ind HQ 750 .A1 C47

2. Children's Literature Abstracts (1978+)
   Dunbar Abs/Ind PN 1009 .A1 C5

3. Educational Administration Abstracts (1975+)
   Dunbar Abs/Ind LB 2805 .E24

4. Exceptional Child Education Resources (1969+)
   Dunbar Abs/Ind Z 5814 .C52 E9

5. Music Index (1949+)
   Music Library Reference ML 118 .M84 (Creative Arts)

6. Physical Education Index (1978+)
   Dunbar Abs/Ind GV 341 .P49

   *(Note: The Abstracts/Indexes collection is located on the 2^nd floor in the North wing of the Dunbar Library.)

1. Art Abstracts (abstracts over 300 leading international art publications from 1929+)

2. Dissertation Abstracts (abstracts of more than 1.5 million doctoral dissertations & master's theses from U.S. & foreign institutions from 1861+)

3. Index to Legal Periodicals & Books (cites articles from 760 legal periodicals from 1981+)

4. Library Literature (citations to articles in library & information science from 1984+)

5. Matter of Fact (textual statistical excerpts on social, economic, political, health policy issues from 1984+)

6. Music Index (citations to articles from over 640 music journals covering both popular & classical music from 1979+) / WSU only

7. PsycINFO (professional & academic literature in psychology & related disciplines from 1887+)

8. Social Sciences Citation Index (multidisciplinary coverage of journal literature in social sciences from 1980+)

9. Sociological Abstracts (is a primary resource for information in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences from 1963+)