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What are the possibilities for coordinating education information databases?

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ERIC is the closest thing to a national database covering the field of education and yet ERIC's coverage is not comprehensive and responsibility for providing information concerning educational resources of all types is fragmented. Given that ERIC cannot obtain the resources to increase its coverage, this article outlines what can be done to coordinate the various existing education information databases. Coordination is seen as possible both during database generation and the later search and retrieval phase. Specific recommendations are provided for four defined stages: (1) Coverage/Acquisitions/Selection; (2) Processing (Cataloging/Indexing/Abstracting); (3) Finding the Right Database to Search (Referral); (4) Retrieval.

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  • Feaster, T. J., et al. (1979).Databases and clearinghouses: Information resources for education (Information Series No. 167). Columbus, OH: National Center for Research in Vocational Information. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 184 534).

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  1. ERIC Processing and reference Facility, 2440 Research Boulevard, Suite 400, 20850, Rockville, MD

    Ted Brandhorst

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Ted Brandhorst is the director of the ERIC Processing and reference Facility, the centralized editorial, computerized processing, and database management facility for the ERIC network. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1955 and obtained his M.L.S. there in 1957. He came to the Library of Congress in 1959 as a Special Intern and has worked in virtually every division of that library. From 1962–1969 he served as the Assistant Director of the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Facility. He joined ERIC as Director of the ERIC Facility in 1970.

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Brandhorst, T. What are the possibilities for coordinating education information databases?. Knowledge in Society 3, 45–57 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02687226

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