Abstract
Microcomputer technology has had a tremendous effect on the way information and research in education can be retrieved. Since the early 1960's and the availability of online computer searching of the ERIC database, about thirty U.S.-produced databases specifically oriented to educators have become available. Microcomputer technology makes direct access possible to these databases by anyone with a microcomputer, modem, and printer. Such direct access means that educators who have not had the opportunity to use library computer search services may now conduct their own online, interactive searches of the vast body of published literature and other products of educational research and practice. This article identifies and describes many of the educational databases and the information retrieval companies that offer information search services for educators.
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