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• Reference Services
• Dec 06- Jan 07
• Issue: 208

ERIC - December Changes

Some new fields will be added to records in the ERIC database, while others will be discontinued. The new fields will appear in new records. Discontinued fields may remain in legacy records but will not appear in new records.

Some of the changes are:

• Peer-reviewed indicator This field indicates if a journal is peer-reviewed. It can be searched as an index in the Expert search or used as a limiter.
• Education level identifies the specific education community for which the resource is intended. This field can be searched.
• Reference count is the number of references in an article.
• Major and minor descriptors and major and minor identifiers will no longer appear on new records.

The ERIC database contains over 1.1 million bibliographic records for education-related journals and non-journal literature and includes links to free full-text for over 100,000 items.