Education Resource Information Center (ERIC) Documents

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is a free digital library of education research sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC contains more than 1.7 million records representing education research articles, reports, and books.

The eric.ed.gov site is open for the public to use and has a lot of great resources. Because ERIC via Ebsco and ERIC via First Search is linked to other resources available through Rice University’s Fondren Library, you're more likely to find more results when using this version of ERIC. Still, In 2021, users conducted more than 23 million searches on the ERIC website and downloaded 9.6 million full-text articles from the full collection.