Library Guides: Research Help: ERIC Tutorials

Video Tutorials

Watch these video tutorials to improve your research skills within the ERIC database. These will help you when using the database to find information for your assignments and courses.

Finding the Right Descriptors for Your Research
This video helps ERIC searchers find descriptors that match their research topic.
Why Use Descriptors in Your ERIC Search
All ERIC records are tagged with descriptors, which are used to indicate the subjects addressed in the article, report, or book indexed in ERIC. In this video, you'll be shown three ways descriptors can enhance searching in ERIC.
Using Broader or Narrower Terms from the ERIC Thesaurus
This video shows how to use the thesaurus hierarchy of broader and narrower terms to find additional descriptors you can use in your searches.
How to Use ERIC Identifiers
This ERIC video describes and demonstrates the use of identifiers to enhance searches in ERIC. Identifiers are standardized proper nouns and a controlled vocabulary for ERIC.