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Education Department Awards Contract for New ERIC - InfoToday

The U.S. Dept. 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 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 comprises 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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