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2007 Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Reload News

 

The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) has been reloaded to incorporate changes to the thesaurus.

In addition, Ovid has made the following changes to the database:

 

1 Changed Field

Label Field Name What's Changed
LV Level of Availability

The Level of Availability (LV) field indicates whether or not the document can be accessed in an ERIC microfiche collection and applies only th documents which were indexed prior to 2005 (ERIC record number ED010000--ED483046). Levels 1 and 2 indicate that the item is available on microfiche. Level 3 indicates that the item is indexed only.

Previously, the LV field was used to indicate ERIC full text availability. That information is now found in the Access Rights (AR) field.

 
 

1 New Field

Label Field Name What's New
AR Access Rights The Access Rights (AR) field indicates whether or not ERIC can provide full text for the record.
 

1 New Limit

Limit Name Sentence Syntax What's New
ERIC Full Text limit 1 to eric full text

A limit to ERIC Full Text will restrict retrieval to those citations for which there is an ERIC full text link. To limit to Ovid full text and other types of external full text use the limit to Full Text.

 

1 Changed Limit

Limit Name Sentence Syntax What's New
Full Text limit 1 to full text

A limit to Full Text will restrict retrieval to those citations for which there is a full text link. Both Ovid full text and external full text are included in this limit.

 

Complete details on new and changed fields are available in the database guide. If you have any questions contact your Ovid Support Representative at support@ovid.com.

Reload News Revised 15 November, 2007.