We are closely following developments with the Department of Education in the United States including reported cancellations of contracts at the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). Researchers and students will know that the Education Resources Information Center (or ERIC) is funded and operates out of the Department of Education. As ERIC is a primary resource for Education research, and one of the world’s largest educational literature database of journal and non-journal documents. The publicly accessible version of the ERIC database (offered free for public use by the Institute of Education Sciences) is an important tool for practitioners, members of the public, and the broader community who do not have access to the licensed version of ERIC (via ProQuest) that we do at the University of Toronto. As of Wednesday, February 27th, 2025, the publicly accessible ERIC database is online and operational. We will continue to update our users should the situation change. We have also been following another IES research tool, What Works Clearinghouse, which is also used here by the OISE community.
The licensed version of ERIC that we subscribe to at the University of Toronto Libraries (via ProQuest) remains available for the U of T community. Similarly, the library’s current subscriptions to education databases, individual journals, and articles, remain unchanged.
For support with research resources, please contact a librarian. We are here to help.
- To read more about the history of ERIC, please see this slideshow on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine: 50 Years of ERIC.
- Resource from the University of Minnesota Libraries: Finding Government Information during the 2025 Administration Transition