Editorial: New Zealand Journal of Teachers’ Work – Serving Its Readers

Abstract

The Editors of NZJTW are very pleased to be able to announce that NZJTW is now indexed by ERIC, the Education Resources Information Center, a database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education(see https://eric.ed.gov/). ERIC provides education researchers access to indexed and full-text education literature and resources. It is used by over 12 million students and researchers around the world each year. There are several implications to this which may be of interest to our readers and authors. The first, really most important is that NZJTW authors’ published work is now easily available to anyone using the index. Although NZJTW is ‘open access’ and has always been theoretically available to any researcher, this new development will send researchers to the journal in a way that was not previously likely to happen. So, the general impact of our authors’ work will be felt in a wider arena. The second implication is that, for this reason, the journal will have more status –not our primary purpose, but significant for many of our authors.