The Quality of Researchers' Searches of the ERIC Database

Creator

Scott Hertzberg
Lawrence Rudner

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Publisher

Arizona State University, University of South Florida

Publication Date

August 1999

Abstract

During the last ten years, end-users of electronic databases have become progressively less dependent on librarians and other intermediaries. This is certainly the case with the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Database, a resource once accessed by passing a paper query form to a librarian and now increasingly searched directly by end-users. This article empirically examines the search strategies currently being used by researchers and other groups. College professors and educational researchers appear to be doing a better job searching the database than other ERIC patrons. However, the study suggests that most end-users should be using much better search strategies.

Extent

12

Volume

7

Issue

25

Language

English

Media Type

Journals (Periodicals)

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

E11-00137

Creative Commons

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Hertzberg, Scott and Rudner, Lawrence, "The Quality of Researchers' Searches of the ERIC Database" (1999). Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA). 352.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_EPAA/352