ERIC have just announced some updates and new features to their website, including
- RSS feeds, which will alert you when new items are indexed that meet your search criteria.
- an update to their downloadable journal list, which now includes 825 titles.
- an update to their thesaurus, with the addition of 40 new subject terms.
- seven new tutorials for first-time users.
This is the free online version of ERIC. The Library also subscribes to ERIC through CSA and ProQuest. Part of the advantage of searching via these other platforms is that we are also able to provide “find it” links to full text content held on other resources to which we subscribe. These find it links also take you back to the ERIC website, particularly for ERIC documents. In addition, the CSA version also divides results according to peer reviewed and other material and provides some citation information. CSA also provide good search tools, which allow you to do things like access the search history and set up alerts and RSS feeds.
Anyway, the content provided by the website underpins the products to which we subscribe. Their new RSS feed is actually a little easier to use than our subscribed database because it is not necessary to create a user account and login. They also continue to digitize their backfile of ERIC documents.
