ERIC database updates

While at the national library conference this summer, I attended a session on the ERIC database and thought I would share some bits of interesting data:

• There are over  1.4 million records including 892 thousand journal records, of which 336 thousand are full-text.
• They index 1063 journals comprehensively (i.e., cover to cover) and an additional 100+ titles are indexed selctively
• They are collaborating with ProQuest (vendor) to provide links to the full text of dissertations and they are adding ERIC indexing terms to the records. This is huge as dissertation indexing (and hence searching) has been very primitive in the past.
• They add 4 thousand new records to the database every month. 
• The updates appear daily in the government's web site (eric.ed.gov) and monthly in the other vendors' versions (e.g., Ebsco)