Conducting Electronic Research

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ERIC is a public-access database of journal and non-journal education literature. It is sponsored by IES, the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences and its Web site contains more than 1.2 million citations dated between 1966 and the present.

The screen-shot below illustrates the first step in a basic ERIC search for works by John Steinbeck. Feel free to click on the visit the database page at the website for Colorado State University's Morgan Library and select E from the alphabet menu that appears, scroll down to ERIC and become the researcher yourself or, just click ERIC here to do the same.

As you can see, the researcher has selected the Basic Search tab and entered the author's name in the search field. Notice the Search Tips located in the panel at right and how similar they are to the tips provided in our "Conducting Electronic Research: An Overview".

View the next step in an ERIC database search.