ERIC Education Library’s New Look Debuts Online
The newly revamped version of the nation’s largest electronic education library quietly made its debut this month, with promises of more offerings to come from the federal project.
In what the Department of Education called a move to upgrade and streamline the 39-year-old Educational Resources Information Center, the department last December shut down the 16 clearinghouses that once made up the ERIC system’s backbone. ( "ERIC Clearinghouses Close; New System in Works," Jan. 14, 2004.) In place of that far-flung system, the department has erected a more centralized one that operates like popular commercial Web-search engines such as Google and Yahoo.
The new system, which went online Sept. 1, is essentially a bare-bones operation so far. Full texts, for instance, of the 1.1 million reports, articles, speeches, hearings, and other documents housed in ERIC’s massive archives...
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