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Update on The National Library of Education and ERIC

Update on The National Library of Education and ERIC. Special Libraries Association Education Division webinar November 8, 2013. ED's mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access.

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Update on The National Library of Education and ERIC

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  1. Update on The National Library of Education and ERIC Special Libraries Association Education Division webinar November 8, 2013

  2. ED's mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access • ED's 4,400 employees and $68 billion budget are dedicated to: • Establishing policies on federal financial aid for education, and distributing as well as monitoring those funds • Collecting data on America's schools and disseminating research • Focusing national attention on key educational issues • Prohibiting discrimination and ensuring equal access to education

  3. The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is the research arm of ED and connects research, policy, and practice Four centers Provide rigorous evidence Conduct peer-reviewed scientific studies Fund top educational researchers Collect and analyze statistics including long-term longitudinal studies Conduct evaluations of large-scale educational projects and federal education programs Help states work toward data-driven school improvement • National Center for Education Research • National Center for Education Statistics • National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance • National Center for Special Education

  4. From 19th century beginnings, Congress established the library as the National Library of Education in 1994 Henry Barnard William Torrey Harris

  5. There are over 70,000 books in the NLE collection which focus on evidence-based research • Education • research • policy • history • philosophy • legislation • AND almost all of the reports produced by the Department and its predecessors since the 1870s.

  6. In the last two years NLE has had a change in its leadership and how it delivers on its mandate New directions to implement: • Refocus the print and electronic collection on evidence-based research • Strengthen information services • Outreach • Interagency collaboration on open access to federally funded research Mandate remains constant: • Provide a central location within the Federal Government for information about education • Provide comprehensive reference services on matters related to education to staff, other government agencies, researchers and other members of the education community, and the general public

  7. There have been changes to the ERIC database too while its purpose remains the same ERIC provides: • references and full-text (when available)in a user-friendly, timely, and efficient manner • to support the use of educational research and information • In order to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research. • to a wide audience • Schools • Institutions of higher education • Educators • Parents • Administrators • Policymakers • Researchers • Public and private entities • Entities responsible for carrying out technical assistance for the Department • The general public.

  8. There are new goals for ERIC for the next 5 years and the database is being administeredby a new contractor • Provide information and resources to practitioners, policymakers, and students • Provide information also by topic and sub-topic that highlights recent, peer reviewed work of use to novice users • Increase the usability of ERIC for novice users • Increase access to publicly funded research

  9. The New ERIC Website launched in August 2013

  10. There have been some immediate changes to ERIC • A new more straightforward website interface • Better search function to rank ERIC documents to highlight the information most commonly sought by ERIC users • New records being indexed now after a temporary hiatus • User-submitted publications temporarily not accepted while new functionality is designed to meet open access requirements

  11. A practitioner-friendly section of the ERIC website is in development for early 2015 • Highlight peer reviewed and federally funded research by topic • 15 topic webpages (each with 5-10 subtopics) with a 2,000 word summary per topic written by a subject matter expert • Each topic and subtopic will contain links to relevant publications, including: • IES produced research • IES funded research • IES funded statistics • Links to non-IES research • Other Department of Education resources • Glossary of relevant thesaurus terms

  12. Full text ERIC PDFs are being restored at a more rapid pace • Many full text PDFs were temporarily disabled due to the discovery of personally identifiable information • What is currently available: • All peer reviewed articles • ERIC Digests and Peace Corps Documents • Any article published after 2005 • Documents that have been scanned for PII either manually or through an automated process (ongoing, approximately 55,000) • Thousands of PDFs will be released each week

  13. A new collection advisory group is improving the ERIC Selection Policy • Librarians and subject matter experts will review the ERIC selection policy • And then review the journals and non-journal sources being indexed with four goals: • Ensure that each source selected for indexing is education research relevant to the ERIC mission. • Increase the number peer-reviewed, full-text sources in ERIC. • Increase the number of rigorous and relevant, non-peer reviewed full-text sources in ERIC. • Reduce the number of articles without full text to only those sources that are peer reviewed or are of substantive rigor and relevance.

  14. Thank you Pamela Tripp-Melby Director, National Library of Education Pamela.Tripp-Melby@ed.gov 202-453-6536

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