ERIC--The Educational Resources Information Center

or's initials. Next, locate the desired reports in the microfiche collection. Many of the longer reports are continued on two or more microfiche. lf'the note on the upper left hand corner of the fiche indicates 1 of 2, it is a two part microfiche sheet document, 1 of 3, three parts, etc. Some documents in RIE are not available on ERIC microfiche. If you do not find the report you are looking for in the microfiche collection, locate its abstract in the appropriate monthly issues of RIE. If the document was not reproduced on ERIC microfiche, the abstract will include the note "Not available from EDRS", or marked with a double slach (II) after the ED number. Finally, view documents on the microfiche reader. Library staff will assist if you do not know how to operate the machine. Searching by author or institution in the ERIC collection ERIC materials are indexed by author and by sponsoring institutions, in addition to subject terms. If you wish to discover what articles a certain author has written, or if you wish to know what materials a certain university or institution has sponsored, you can consult the 'author' and/or 'institution' sections in the above-mentioned indexes. Searching by topic in 'Current Index to Journals in Education' for periodical literature. Like a search in RIE, utilise the terms fisted' in the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors and check them against the subject section in C/jE. Consult the annual cumulations for those years which are complete and the monthly and/or semi-annual issues for the current year.