The AOSIS Publishing Department deserves high praise for their recent success on the back of the latest Education Resources Information Centre (ERIC) reports. The AOSIS Educational Scholarly Journals (Pythagoras, Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, South African Journal of Childhood Education, Transformation in Higher Education) recently received very positive statistics on articles viewed and downloaded on the Education Resources Information Centre (ERIC) platform.

The following articles were downloaded the most: 

• Pythagoras
  • Conversations in a Professional Learning Community: An Analysis of Teacher Learning Opportunities in Mathematics
• Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa
  • The Effect of Social Media on English Second Language Essay Writing with Special Reference to WhatsApp
• South African Journal of Childhood Education
  • Barriers and Bridges between Mother Tongue and English as a Second Language in Young Children
• Transformation in Higher Education
  • Embodied Digital Technology and Transformation in Higher Education

Background on ERIC:

Education Resources Information Centre (ERIC) is a digital library of education research that serves more than 12 million researchers, educators, academics, policymakers, and the general public from 237 countries. Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the ERIC database has more than 1,7 million records of education research, including journal articles, books, and grey literature. ERIC ads more than 4000 records of new content each month and provides metric reports of how often content has been viewed and downloaded in six months.