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Finding Federally Funded Health Information & Alternatives

Where to find federal information after the 2025 transition

What’s in This Guide?

This guide contains alternatives to federally funded databases, information on where to look when you've encountered a broken link, and other resources.

Education Resources Information Centre (ERIC)

What You Should Know

  • Education Resources Information Centre (ERIC) is a vital education database that also provides a vast selection of gray literature (materials such as conference abstracts, white papers, reports, working papers, etc.).
  • The Department of Education has proposed drastically reducing ERIC's content (by around 45%) starting April 24, 2025. In order to achieve this, the DOE will deselect journals from ERIC's indexing, which means their content will be removed from the database.
  • The DOE has not released the list of deselected journals nor have they notified every journal due to workforce reductions but they have started notifying some journals. Grassroots efforts to list which journals are being deselected are underway:
  • Some librarians have received an email that ERIC will continue to be maintained, but with "cost efficiencies." The proposed reduction in content has not been clarified. 

Where Else Can I Search?

What Other Options Are There?

The following databases require a subscription:

Further Reading

PubMed

What You Should Know

Where Can I Search Instead?

Where Do I Go if PubMed Is Down?

PubMed searches a collection of papers called Medline, maintained by the National Library of Medicine, which is part of the National Institutes of Health. Medline is searchable through other platforms, so if the PubMed website is down, you can also use:

ClinicalTrials.gov

What You Should Know

Where Can I Search Instead?

Or, search in a specific country's registry: