Document Types

Since 1979, each ERIC record has been assigned a three-digit document type code, which corresponds to a textual description. The code appears in parentheses following its text equivalent in the Document Type (DT) field. The Document Type Code (DTC) field contains the three-digit code only. Records can have more than one document type.

Use the DT field to search for the text equivalent; use the DTC field to search for the three-digit codes. Alternatively, you can select document types from the Document Type Field-Specific Index or select document type codes from the Document Type Code Field-Specific Index.

The following list contains the document type codes and their text equivalent.

010 Books

020 Collected-Works-General

021 Collected-Works-Proceedings

022 Collected-Works-Serials

030 Creative-Works

040 Dissertations-Theses-Undetermined

041 Dissertations-Theses-Doctoral-Dissertations

042 Dissertations-Theses-Masters-Theses

043 Dissertations-Theses-Practicum-Papers

050 Guides-General

051 Guides-Classroom-Learner

052 Guides-Classroom-Teacher

055 Guides-Non-Classroom

060 Historical-Materials

070 Information-Analyses-General

071 Information-Analyses-ERIC IAP's

072 Book-Product-Reviews

073 ERIC-Digests-in-Full-Text

080 Journal-Articles

090 Legal-Legislative-Regulatory-Materials

100 Non-Print-Media

101 Computer-Programs

102 Machine-Readable-Data-Files (MRDF)

110 Numeric-Quantitative-Data

120 Opinion-Papers

130 Reference-Materials-General

131 Reference-Materials-Bibliographies

132 Reference-Materials-Directories-Catalogs

133 Reference-Materials-Geographic-Materials

134 Reference-Materials-Vocabularies-Classifications

140 Reports-General

141 Reports-Descriptive

142 Reports-Evaluative

143 Reports-Research

150 Speeches-Meeting-Papers

160 Tests-Questionnaires

170 Translations

171 Multilingual-Bilingual-Materials