Education Research Tutorial

Searching the ERIC, or Education Resource Information Center, database allows you to retrieve both journal article citations and citations for ERIC documents. This unique content of the ERIC documents is invaluable to researchers and makes ERIC a critical resource. ERIC documents generally are not published in journals and include resources such as research reports, papers presented at conferences, and other education-related materials of use to researchers. The majority of ERIC documents from the last 15 years are available in their entirety in the ERIC database. 

You may choose to search for both ERIC documents (ED's) and journal articles (EJ's) or to restrict your search to only ERIC documents or journal articles.

Find ERIC in the library’s A-Z Database list under "E".

The library's catalog, available at library.ucmo.edu with the main search bar in the center, is also called Primo. You can use it to search all of the library's holdings, including books, ebooks, articles, journals, and databases. It defaults to a basic search bar, but there is an option to conduct an Advanced Search by clicking the link to the right of the search bar. To begin your search at library.ucmo.edu, select the most important 2-3 terms related to your topic.  Put the word AND between each new term to search for all words together.

education AND behavior

Use quotation marks ( "  " ) around phrases of two or more words that need to be kept together

"special education" AND "behavior management"

Use an asterisk (*) to find multiple endings of one word. For example, educat* for education, educate, educators, etc.