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Update via email inquiring about ERIC Indexing per MI State and UMass:

March 21, 2025

The Department of Education is working with the Department of Government Efficiency to "reduce overall Federal spending" and "reallocate spending to promote efficiency" (EO 14222). As a result, the number of records added to the ERIC collection will be significantly reduced going forward. The number of actively cataloged sources will be reduced by approximately 45% starting April 24, 2025.  Subject matter was not considered during the process to identify which sources would be made inactive.  Please note that all records currently in ERIC will remain available.

There has been a delay in notifying publishers impacted by this content reduction due to the government reduction in force. Once publishers have been notified, a final list of retained sources (journals and non-journals) will be posted.  We will provide more information about this list as soon as possible.

ERIC Help Desk

National Center for Education Evaluation, Institute of Education Sciences

U.S. Department of Education

Email: ERICRequests@ed.gov

• ERIC's indexing will be reduced from 1,283 journals to about 706.
• According to the above, "note that all records currently in ERIC will remain available". This means that any information that was added to the database prior to April 24, 2025 should remain in the system and be in the results of a search. Future issues from removed journals will be missing after April 24, 2025.
• We do not have specific names of journals that are being removed beyond grassroots efforts.

A list is being compiled of journal no longer being indexed by ERIC at Michigan State University. This list can be viewed here:

Journals No Longer Being Indexed By ERIC

A similar spreadsheet is being compiled at Univ of Massachusetts Amherst:

Journals Removed From ERIC

If you know of a resource that has been removed from ERIC and it is not on these lists, please submit the information via email to Jenni Burke, Science & Education Librarian to be added to this list:

Journals No Longer Being Indexed by ERIC - Butler Libraries Alternate Access