ERIC - Education Resources Information CenterERIC, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, is the world's largest database of education literature. The new online system provides a centralized Web site for searching more than 1.1 citations going back to 1966. More than 107,000 non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004) are available in full-text at no cost through ERIC.