{"id":6671,"date":"2025-04-25T14:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/?p=6671"},"modified":"2025-04-25T14:00:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:00:45","slug":"eric-database-faces-major-setbacks-amid-federal-funding-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/?p=6671","title":{"rendered":"ERIC Database Faces Major Setbacks Amid Federal Funding Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"353\" height=\"159\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ERIC.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6672\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eric.ed.gov\/\">ERIC<\/a> (Education Resources Information Center), an essential indexing database for education and the social sciences, will experience a significant reduction in content and curation beginning April 24, 2025, due to federal budget cuts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ERIC&#8217;s collection dates back to the 1960&#8217;s and has over 2 million documents, including peer-reviewed journals, books, federal, state and local government reports, key documents from think tanks and state departments of education, dissertations as well as gray literature.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ERIC database has been backed up by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.datarescueproject.org\/\">Data Rescue Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), an essential indexing database for education and the social sciences, will experience a significant reduction in content and curation beginning April 24, 2025, due to federal budget cuts.\u00a0 ERIC&#8217;s collection dates back to the 1960&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/?p=6671\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,20,96],"tags":[488,808,809],"class_list":["post-6671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alerts","category-resources","category-technology","tag-database","tag-eric","tag-funding-cuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6671"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6676,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671\/revisions\/6676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}