Gateway to Scientific Literature

NECTAC’s Gateway to Scientific Literature is integral to our role in linking people and knowledge. Through our working relationships with knowledge producers and users at all levels: researchers, policy makers, practitioners, families and advocates for young children with special needs, we identify new information resources and share them via our Web site, discussion groups, and eNotes.

NECTAC was formerly associated with the ERIC system as an Adjunct Clearinghouse on Early Intervention and Early Childhood Special Education. The ERIC Clearinghouses closed on December 31, 2003 and the new ERIC online system, developed by the Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) of Rockville, MD and its subcontractors (Research Triangle Institute of Research Triangle Park, NC; NATECH of Coos Bay, OR; DB Consulting of Silver Spring, MD; and CurrenTech, Inc. of Columbia, MD) was released on September 1, 2004.

The ERIC database and ERIC News can now be accessed online at http://www.eric.ed.gov. The ERIC system is now accepting submissions via the Beta version of its Online Submission System . This system enables individual contributors to submit non-journal materials that will be considered for inclusion in the ERIC database.