ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is a database that contains over 1 million citations and abstracts of primary documents and journal articles and links to more than 300,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966. ERIC consists of two files: Resources in Education (RIE), which covers document literature, consisting of research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books; and Current Index to Journals (CIJE) in Education, which covers published journal literature.