Monday, March 12, 2012

Great news about the ERIC database!

From the Communications team at ERIC...
"The ERIC team is pleased to announce that, in response to librarian requests, we are adding the peer-reviewed status to records indexed in ERIC from 1966-2003 to bring the backfile in line with currently indexed records. To determine whether a journal title is peer-reviewed, ERIC staff librarians are consulting three sources: Ulrichsweb, The Serials Directory, and publisher-provided information. The peer-review information gathered from these sources is being updated in the digital library on a journal by journal basis. Enhanced records have already begun to appear on the ERIC Web site at www.eric.ed.gov. Vendors will receive the changes on a monthly basis.
We expect that the updates to the ERIC backfile, consisting of more than
680,000 journal records, will be completed within this calendar year.
For more information, visit the ERIC Web site and see the new policy on the Peer-Reviewed Designation.  If you have comments or questions, please feel free to contact us at ericfeedback@csc.com."

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