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The educational resources information center (ERIC): A system faces its future

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A 1987 study of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) proposed several key improvements to ERIC's acquisition, synthesis, and dissemination activities, including a recommendation that ERIC products and services should be more widely available to diverse audiences. Achieving significant improvements in ERIC hinges on three factors: receiving additional resources, applying new technologies, and adapting systemwide management policies. Future system improvement options—such as expanding database and journal coverage, developing the capability to store and retrieve full-text documents, creating expert search systems, enhancing electronic dissemination, developing new publication series, and marketing ERIC products and services in ways that better reach practicing educators—also are discussed.

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  1. U.S. Department of Education/OERI, Educational Resources Information Center, 555 New Jersey Ave., NW, 20208-5720, Washington, DC

    Robert M. Stonehill (Director)

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  1. Robert M. Stonehill
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Robert M. Stonehill is the acting director of the Educational Information Resources Division of OERI, and director of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) program. AT the Department of Education, he has worked in the areas of technology applications to educational management and information dissemination, testing and assessment, and evaluation of federal programs, particularly compensatory, education programs. He received a doctorate in educational research from the University of Colorado.

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Stonehill, R.M. The educational resources information center (ERIC): A system faces its future. Knowledge in Society 3, 69–80 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02687228

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