Linking to Full text from ERIC
|
Links to full text from the http://www.eric.ed.gov site
|
*Level 1 ERIC documents from 1993 on* are now available full-text without charge. Notice
link Note: To email records (without links) sign up for and use the My ERIC/My Clipboard features. Documents with other levels of availability are simply listed as "not available from ERIC." (i.e. no mention of fiche in libraries) Non-level 1 documents that are part of the new content may provide a URL for the content provider, but this is in a different area of the record and is not a hot link, even if the content is freely available on the web. Some that come from commercial publishers do have the publisher link in the Availability box at the bottom of each listing. Many Journal article listings in the new content (2004 onwards) provide a link to the journal publisher home page. No direct link to journal home page or to other vendors who may make full-text content available. Still in development, a process to allow libraries to customize the interface to link to their holdings, as well as link to resources out on the web (these might simply be to a site where the product is for sale). No firm implementation date, Beta test is now in progress for a few institutions. |
|
Linking to full-text from other familiar ERIC search interfaces
|
Many are still using the vendor interfaces to search ERIC. Links to holdings from these interfaces are largely reliant on the capabilities of the vendor software and the configurations enabled at the subscribing institution. Links to the freely available ERIC documents are available through the vendor interfaces. |
Full-Text
at the bottom of the results listing. Right click to copy and paste
the link into course pages, emails, etc. These links are now functional
persistent URLs. Links do not appear in records sent using the ERIC
email function nor are they a part of any download file.*Note on document levels. ERIC contains levels of availability. Level one items were available in all formats from ERIC. Level two items were available in microfiche only from ERIC. Level 3 items were mainly commercially published books and were unavailable from ERIC. Presumably the new ERIC will have only Levels 1 and 3.
*Note on document dates: ERIC record full-text availability is based on issue date, not the publication date. A document published in 1992 may have been added to the ERIC database in a monthly issue at a later point in time.
A search of the database for all full-text materials with publication dates 1988-1992 retrieved 12,571 records. The ERIC contractor's technology team ran an analysis of the results to identify when the documents were added. All were indexed and added to the database 1993 or later, but the majority - more than 10,000 - were added 1993-1994. Contributors submitted additional documents for review from the 1988-1992 time period in considerably smaller increments through 2003, and selected materials were added to the database through July 2004.
January 9, 2006