Education Department restarts online library ERIC - The Hechinger Report

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Summary:

"The U.S. Department of Education announced Monday that it would continue to operate its online library, known as ERIC, after allowing it to lapse last week. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had sought significant cuts to the document repository that is used by 14 million people a year, and allowed funding to run out on April 23…A new, albeit much smaller contract was signed on April 24…[Matthew Soldner, the acting director of the Institute of Education Sciences] said that 'no content has been removed or deleted from ERIC. The preservation policy is unchanged [and] we will not remove an article in ERIC unless it is retracted by the publisher.'"

Link:

https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-restart-eric-ed-library/

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oa.new oa.usa oa.trump47 oa.eric oa.education oa.repositories

Date tagged:

05/02/2025, 10:59

Date published:

05/02/2025, 06:59