RESOUR> [DIG_REF] DATABASES: EDUCATION AND ERIC: Department Awards $34.6 Million Contract to Develop and Operate World's Largest Education Database
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- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:00:00 -0600
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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 10:42:19 -0500 (EST)
From: David P. Dillard <jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: NetGold <NetGold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: DATABASES: EDUCATION AND ERIC: Department Awards $34.6 Million
Contract to Develop and Operate World's Largest Education Database
Government Computer News (GCN)
03/19/04
Education Taps CSC for Database Job
By Mary Mosquera
GCN Staff
<http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/25342-1.html>
Under a five-year, $34.6 million contract with the Education Department,
Computer Sciences Corp. will develop and operate an Internet-based
database management system for the Education Resources Information Center,
or ERIC.
As the worlds largest education repository, ERIC will store more than a
million journal articles and document abstracts. It will use the latest
search and retrieval methods to cull education literature and provide
materials faster over the Internet, Education secretary Rod Paige said
yesterday.
The new database, replacing a vintage 1960s system, will provide as much
free, full-text access as possible, with links to commercial sources so
that individuals can buy paid journal articles and other materials
immediately. The department's Institute of Education Sciences will oversee
development of a searchable Internet catalog of education literature
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PRESS RELEASES
Department Awards $34.6 Million Contract to Develop and Operate World's
Largest Education Database
Department's Institute of Education Sciences to oversee development of
searchable Internet-based catalog of education literature
FOR RELEASE:
March 18, 2004 Contact: David Thomas
(202) 401-1576
<http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2004/03/03182004.html>
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded a five-year, $34.6 million
contract to Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) of Rockville, Md., along
with its subcontractors, to develop and operate a new database system for
the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC). The ERIC database will
use the latest search and retrieval methods to cull education literature
and give high-quality access to educators, researchers, and the general
public.
The ERIC database is the world's largest education database. Begun in
1966, it is composed of more than one million bibliographic records. The
goal of the new ERIC is to provide more education materials quicker, and
more directly, to audiences through the Internet.
With the new ERIC, individuals will be able to go to one Web site to
search a comprehensive database of journal articles and document abstracts
and descriptions and, for the first time, directly access full text. The
database will include as much free full text as possible, and links will
be provided to commercial sources so that individuals can purchase journal
articles and other full text immediately.
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Students with disabilities are to be afforded the same
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The full text of the article and the press release above may be viewed at
the URLs above.
On Friday, March 19, 2004, Gary Price provided coverage of this
development as well that may be viewed on his Resource Shelf weblog
at this URL:
Resource Shelf
<http://resourceshelf.freepint.com/>
Direct link to this Resource Shelf post
<http://www.resourceshelf.com/archives/
2004_03_01_resourceshelf_archive.html#107966554407664031>
A shorter URL for the link above:
<http://snipurl.com/57mt>
Prior Posts About the ERIC transition
Stephen's Web
<http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/website/
find.cgi?string=author~David%20P.%20Dillard>
Internet Places to Learn Developments Regarding the Restructuring of the
Education Database of Articles and Reports: ERIC ERIC, as most OLDaily
readers will recall, was shut down at the end of last year. This post
provides three major links to information about successor services: ERIC
Reauthorization News, ERIC Connections, and ERIC Changes 2002. By David P.
Dillard, NetGold, February 17, 2003 [Refer][Research][Reflect]
[Links to posts are embedded in this text]
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 01:45:45 -0500
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From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RESOURCE: ERIC Database: Strong Past: Uncertain Future
Subject: RESOURCE: ERIC Database: Strong Past: Uncertain Future
<http://listmail.temple.edu/scripts/
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A shorter URL for the link above:
<http://snipurl.com/57mx>
K12> No Child Left Behind, Except ERIC
From: Gleason Sackmann <gleason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: NetHappenings <nethappenings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 10:38:56 -0500
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