Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has signed an agreement with the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS). Under the deal, EBSCO will make two INIST-CNRS databases - PASCAL and FRANCIS - available on EBSCOhost. PASCAL is a multilingual, multidisciplinary database covering science, technology and medicine, while FRANCIS is a multidisciplinary database providing humanities and social sciences coverage.
The agreement provides for extensive backfile coverage for both PASCAL and FRANCIS. PASCAL content is available back to 1984 and FRANCIS content is available back to 1972. EBSCO claims to be the first provider to offer FRANCIS archives from 1972 to 1984. Previously FRANCIS was only available from 1984 to the present.
PASCAL offers extensive bibliographic indexing for more than 13 million records. The database provides coverage of science, technology and medicine with special emphasis on European content. Source documents include journal articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, books, patents and reports. The tri-lingual indexing available in PASCAL allows keyword searching in French, English and Spanish, regardless of the original language of the article. The database includes title coverage in all major medical disciplines such as oncology, cardiology, angiology, surgery, gastroenterology, medical imaging, neurology, pediatrics, biological sciences, pharmacology and psychology. In addition, important cross-disciplinary fields such as tropical medicine, public health and biomedical engineering are represented.
FRANCIS offers extensive bibliographic indexing for more than 2.5 million records with subject headings available in English and in French. FRANCIS provides multilingual resourcing (additional indexing in Spanish for specific content) and covers more than 2,300 periodicals in subject areas such as administrative sciences, business management, economics, energy economics, geography, information science, psychology, public health, sociology and more. The database also includes journal articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations and reports.
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