ERIC introduced the peer reviewed field in 2005 for journal articles published 2004 onward. Fields that have been discontinued may remain on legacy records, but they will not be on new records. A list of the complete changes is scheduled to be sent to the Z39.50 listserv on November 9. The revised Z39.50 documentation also will be available November 9 at www.oclc.org/support/documentation/firstsearch/z3950/z3950_databases/default.htm.

Some of the changes are listed below:

• Peer-reviewed indicator. This field indicates if a journal is peer-reviewed. It can be searched as an index in the Expert search or used as a limiter.
• Education level identifies the specific education community for which the resource is intended. This field can be searched.
• Reference count is the number of references in an article.
• Major and minor descriptors and major and minor identifiers are no longer distinguished on new records.

ERIC provides access to more than 1.1 million bibliographic records for education-related journals and nonjournal literature. ERIC links to free full-text for more than 100,000 items. Contact BCR's Karen Graham (kgraham@bcr.org) for more information.