Import studies from ERIC

Silvi lets you import papers directly from the ERIC database. Here's how:

What is ERIC?

The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a digital database of education-related research. Maintained by the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education, ERIC is free to use.

ERIC contains more than 1.5 million bibliographic records including abstracts and citations covering all levels of educating from early childhood to higher education. In addition to published literature, ERIC also indexes unpublished materials, which are often referred to as "grey literature."

With more than 350,000 full-text papers, ERIC is an indispensable resource for researchers working in the field of education.

How to search in ERIC?

Searching in ERIC is quite easy. You simply go to https://eric.ed.gov/ and type in your search. For example:

"social media as a pedagogical tool in undergraduate classroom"

The ERIC search engine supports advanced searching such as boolean search, phrase search and search in various fields. You can read more about how to do advanced search in ERIC here.

Once you have made your search, ERIC will give you a list of papers and studies matching your search string.

With every article, ERIC will show you if it has access to the full text of the article or give you a direct link to the publisher's website.

You can filter articles by publication date, descriptor, source, author, publication type, educational level, audience, location, and more.

Importing Studies into Silvi

Since ERIC is one of the most comprehensive resources when it comes to education-related research, we have integrated it with Silvi. This integration enables you to import thousands of articles from ERIC to Silvi to make your literature review smooth and efficient.

1. Copy URL in ERIC

Go to ERIC and run a search. When you are satisfied with the results of your search copy the URL of the page.

2. Paste the URL into Silvi

In Silvi all you need is the URL you copied from ERIC to import the studies.

• Open a project in Silvi and click on "Import studies"

• Select "Scientific database" and then ERIC

• Paste URL you copied from ERIC's website

• Click on "Save" and then "Fetch"

Silvi will no import all the studies from ERIC automatically for you.

3 Success you have now imported from ERIC

Once Silvi has finished importing the studies, you can now start your review by proceeding to screen the studies.

Click on "Start screening" and you will be taken to the next phase where you will see the imported studies from ERIC.