Education

According to the ERIC Help Desk, changes are being made to the ERIC database:

“The Department of Education is working with the Department of Government Efficiency to "reduce overall Federal spending" and "reallocate spending to promote efficiency" (EO 14222). As a result, the number of records added to the ERIC collection will be significantly reduced going forward. The number of actively cataloged sources will be reduced by approximately 45% starting April 24, 2025.  Subject matter was not considered during the process to identify which sources would be made inactive.  Please note that all records currently in ERIC will remain available.

There has been a delay in notifying publishers impacted by this content reduction due to the government reduction in force. Once publishers have been notified, a final list of retained sources (journals and non-journals) will be posted.  We will provide more information about this list as soon as possible.

ERIC Help Desk

National Center for Education Evaluation, Institute of Education Sciences

U.S. Department of Education

Email: ERICRequests@ed.gov”

• ERIC's indexing will be reduced from 1,283 journals to approximately 706.
• According to the above, "note that all records currently in ERIC will remain available. This means that if you ran a search in ERIC previously, those results should remain. Future issues from removed journals will be missing after April 24, 2025.
• We won't know for a while which journals have been removed beyond those identified by grassroots efforts.

We have a subscription to Education Source Ultimate, which includes 786 of the 1,283 journals in ERIC (prior to the April 24, 2025 changes).

Please see the link below for a spreadsheet that lists the journal and if it is covered by Education Source Ultimate or other databases offered by the Libraries.

If you know of a resource that has been removed from ERIC and it is not on this list, please submit the information to the Google form below.