ERIC Will Continue, Although Reduced

On April 23, 2025, I posted RIP ERIC.    There has since been an update to the story.  It looks like ERIC will continue with a reduced budget.

Johanna Jacobsen Kiciman of The UW Tacoma Library recently posted this article to their blog:

Changes to the ERIC Database

Posted on April 23, 2025 by Johanna Jacobsen Kiciman

Beginning April 24th, 2025, ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) – a key indexing database for education and the social sciences that is government hosted – will see a significant reduction in its content moving forward. Information about this reduction is hard to come by and communication around what will happen has been opaque; this post reflects knowledge available the day of publication.

How does this impact you?

• Starting 4/24/25, there will be less new content added to ERIC.
• If ERIC remains unstaffed, current content may degrade because it will no longer be maintained (think: broken links, keyword issues, etc.) 
• You will have less access to grey literature ...

• 4/28 update: An article in The Hechinger Report notes a contract has been signed which slashes the ERIC budget in half but keeps it running for now.

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See Also:  New Guidance on ERIC Database Availability (from IL State University)

"While we do not currently believe that ERIC will go offline, a team engaged in government information rescue initiatives has created ERICA, a backup catalog of 500,000 files from ERIC uploaded as open-access PDFs to the Wayback Machine. "