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                U.S. Department of Education (ED)
      Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI)
           Institutional Communications Network (INet)
                         May 25, 1994

A complete collection of electronic ERIC Digests is now available
as a full text searchable WAIS database through the ED/OERI
Gopher Server.  The database supports searches which include
boolean expressions and multi-word phrases in quotes.

The collection includes 143 new ERIC Digests which have just been
released by the ERIC Processing and Reference Facility.  The new
Digests will soon be available through several other Internet
sites which host searchable ERIC Digest databases.  But we wanted
to take advantage of this brief moment of uniqueness to announce
the availability of our version, which is intended to relieve
some of the traffic congestion experienced by users of this
very popular resource.

What Are ERIC Digests?
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ERIC is your source when you need a brief overview of the latest
research on topics like:

  * outcome-based education
  * inclusion of students with disabilities in regular classrooms
  * non-grded and mixed-age groupings
  * increasing the school involvement of Hispanic parents
  * authentic writing assessment
  * trends in K-12 social studies

These and more than 1,200 other topics are available as ERIC Digests,
and new titles are produced each year.  Digests are often in
question-answer format and always include a list of additional
resources for more information.  Most of the Digests in the file
were produced by ERIC Clearinghouses, but ERIC is now including
similar publications from other organizations.

How Do I Find The Database?
---------------------------

The ED/OERI Gopher server can be accessed by pointing your Gopher
client software to:

     gopher.ed.gov

From the main menu, follow the path:

     Educational Research, Improvement, and Statistics (OERI & NCES)/
        Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)/
           How to Search ERIC Digests.         <--- instructions
           Search ERIC Digests <?>/            <--- to search

Users of NCSA Mosaic, Cello, Lynx, or other World Wide Web (WWW)
client software can access the ED/OERI Gopher server by directing
your WWW client software to our uniform resource locator (URL):

     http://www.ed.gov/

FTP users can access the information by ftping to:

     ftp.ed.gov

Please note that we do not offer public access Gopher or WWW clients.
You cannot access our server by telneting to our site.  You must
either have an appropriate Gopher or WWW client at your site or be
able to telnet to a public access clientelsewhere.

If you have any suggestions or questions about the contents of the
server, please contact us at one of the following addresses:

      E-mail: gopheradm@inet.ed.gov
   Telephone: (202) 219-1547
         Fax: (202) 219-1817
  Snail Mail: INet Gopher Administrator
              U.S. Department of Education
              Office of Educational Research and Improvement/EIRD
              555 New Jersey Ave., N.W., Room 214
              Washington, D.C.  20208-5725

The database has been registered in the WAIS directory-of-servers
at quake.think.com and at cnidr.org and can be accessed using any
WAIS client software.  The WAIS source description is:

(:source
   :version  3
   :database-name "EricDigests"
   :ip-address "192.239.34.1"
   :ip-name "inet.ed.gov"
   :tcp-port 210
   :cost 0.00
   :cost-unit :free
   :maintainer "sysadmin@inet.ed.gov"
   :description " This file contains over 1,200 ERIC Digests (through 1993).
ERIC Digests are:

    1) short reports (1,000-1,500 words) on topics of prime current interest
       in education.
    2) targeted specifically for teachers, administrators, and other
       practitioners, but generally useful to the broad educational community.
    3) designed to provide an overview of information on a given topic, plus
       references to items providing more detailed information.
    4) produced by the 16 subject-specialized ERIC Clearinghouses, and reviewed
       by experts and content specialists in the field.
    5) funded by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI),
       of the U.S. Department of Education (ED).

         For more information, send e-mail to:

         ERIC@INET.ED.GOV"
)

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Keith M. Stubbs                                      (voice) 202-219-1803
Director, Education Info. Resources Div.               (fax) 202-219-1817
US Dept of Education/OERI                  Internet:  kstubbs@inet.ed.gov
555 New Jersey Avenue, NW  Rm 214c
Washington, DC  20208-5725

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Gene V Glass                                         Glass@ASU.BITNET
College of Education                                 Glass@ASU.EDU
Arizona State University      602-965-2692           Tempe, AZ 85287-2411