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Finding ERIC Documents (ED)

ERIC indexes and abstracts records of journal articles and a wide range of non-journal publications including research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, state and federal government publications, conference papers, and books.

ERIC Documents (EDs)

Full-text Online

ERIC (CSA) and ERIC (EBSCO) make available direct links to the ERIC Documents from 1993 to the present provided via the public version of ERIC at http://www.eric.ed.gov. Some earlier ERIC Documents are also available. To access ERIC Documents from within ERIC CSA and ERIC EBSCO, click on the full-text links provided.

Over 300,000 ERIC Documents from 1966 to the present are available from ERIC at http://www.eric.ed.gov. This set includes about 200,00 documents from between 1966 and 1992. Check there for the full-text of earlier ERIC Documents; you can easily search by ERIC accession number.

Microfiche at Penn - 1966 - c.2004

If an older ERIC document is not yet available online, please use the microfiche collection. [Note that some ED records are for books and other monographic publications; these may be listed in Franklin.] The Library has the ERIC Document microfiche collection for all the years that it existed, 1966-2004. See holdings and locations:

To request delivery of an older ERIC Document fiche from High Density Storage to Van Pelt for viewing, use the Request for Book/Recording from Storage From at http://www.library.upenn.edu/forms/storage-book.html. Be sure to include the ED number in the comments section of your request.

ERIC Journal Citations (EJ Accession Numbers)

To locate journal titles at Penn, click on the PennText button within ERIC CSA or ERIC EBSCO to see if the Penn Library subscribes to a journal separately, within another full-text database, or in paper via a journal title search in the Franklin catalog. Please remember that not all journals are available in electronic format.

If Penn does not own a specific journal in either online or print formats, you may use the Request Article Form located on the left side of the Welcome to Document Delivery @ Penn Libraries at http://webdoc.library.upenn.edu. Allow ample time for your requests.

Please send questions and comments to Patty Lynn, Library Liaison to the Graduate School of Education, at lynn@pobox.upenn.edu.