Professional Development: New Directions for Texas

ERIC Clearinghouse to Close:
TCALL to Archive ERIC ACVE Website

Because of changes being made in the ERIC system at the federal level, all ERIC Clearinghouses will cease operation after December 31, 2003. In the future, the federal resources for supporting ERIC will be focused on the development of the database. A request for proposals to operate the ERIC database was issued in June and proposals were submitted in mid-August. At this time, however, no announcement has been made about what group has been selected to operate the contract.

Regardless of who is selected, however, the ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education (ERIC/ACVE) will not be in operation after the end of the year. The closing of the Clearinghouse brings to a close a long history of providing ERIC information services to the field of adult, career, and career and technical education by the Center on Education and Training for Employment at The Ohio State University (OSU). The Center has operated an ERIC Clearinghouse for 34 of the 37 years that ERIC has been in existence.

The closing of ERIC/ACVE means that we will be shutting down our very popular website. We are making arrangements, however, for many of the contents to be transferred to other locations. The new contractor for ERIC will be developing a website that will allow users to search the database and retrieve materials in full text. Many of the services (publications, links, question answering, information about the ERIC system and links to the ERIC database) of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career and Vocational Education (ERIC ACVE) have been provided through our website. When the Clearinghouse ceases to exist on January 1, 2004, what will happen to these services?

Fortunately our host organization, the Center for Education and Training for Employment at the Ohio State University, will archive much of the information through their website (http://www.cete.org). Additionally, the Texas Center for Adult Literacy and Learning directed by Ralf St. Clair at Texas A&M University will also archive our site.

You will be able to find the following at these sites after 2003. Keep in mind that links to other sites may not be maintained. All of the publications currently available on the ERIC/ACVE website:

ERIC Digests
Myths and Realities
Practice Application Briefs
Practitioner Files (P-Files)
Trends and Issues Alerts
Major Publications

All of our current links to related sites and full-text sites Journals on the web (covering journals indexed in the database through 2003)