Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Just a reminder: Using Peer-Reviewed limiter in ERIC database

This message below from Nancy Cawley is information I've posted before, but it bears repeating. Keep this in mind for your own searching or when helping your students use ERIC (paula):

"... Currently ERIC applies the peer-reviewed designator to journals indexed from 2005 forward; some of these titles may also include the peer-reviewed status for issues published during the period 2002-2004. This data is included in the feed provided to commercial ERIC vendors [e.g., our ERIC access is through Ebsco] As a result, while limiting a search to peer-reviewed articles is helpful for locating peer-reviewed current materials, to find older records you must NOT use the limiter since those records were produced during a time when peer review was not part of the ERIC record.

ERIC obtains information about the peer-reviewed status of a publication from the publisher. When the information is not available from the publisher we use Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory. If you identify an error in an ERIC record, please contact ericfeedback@csc.com. We would be happy to investigate the issue...

Nancy Cawley
Communications Lead, ERIC Project"

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