ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a national information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Library of Education, and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. It provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational and education-related journals.
ERIC covers 1966-present and includes abstracts of educational reports as recorded in the monthly Resources in Education; citations/abstracts for journal articles in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education.
A complimentrary research database for teachers, Teacher Reference Center (TRC) provides indexing and abstracts for more than 280 peer-reviewed journals.