PASCAL covers the core scientific literature in Science, Technology and Medicine with special emphasis on European literature. Because of its multidisciplinary coverage, PASCAL is especially useful when searching for documents on a topic at the interface between several disciplines and seldom covered in specialized databases.
Several national and international specialized research organizations contribute to the PASCAL database.
File description
File size - over 17 million records
Time coverage - 1973 to present
Author abstracts - 90% since 2000
Full author affiliations - since 1997
Keywords - French, English, Spanish
Subject coverage
Source documents
* Journal articles - 88% (3,085 international titles)
* Proceedings - 9%
* Dissertations, books, patents, reports - 3%
Source language
* English 76%
* French 9%
* German 5%
* Russian 6%
* Other 4%
Partner organizations
Automatic control engineering
- LARAL CRAN CNRS UA-821 (Longwy’s Automatic Control Engineering Laboratory/Nancy’s Center for Automatic Control Engineering Research)
Construction and public works
- IRB - FraunhoferInvormationszentrum Raum und Bau, coordinator of the ICONDA (International COnstruction Database) production network
Biomedical sciences
- ENSP - Ecole Nationale de la Santé Publique, coordinator of the BDSP (Banque de Données Santé Publique)database
- LBEI (Experimental Biology and Immunology Laboratory - Henri Poincare University, France)
- LGMI (Fenetics and Microbiology Laboratory, a joint INRA/Henri Poincaré University research unit)
Earth sciences
- BRGM
Availability
Online information services
Datastar - www.datastarweb.com
Dialog - http://library.dialog.com
EBSCO Publishing - www.ebscohost.com
OVID Technologies - www.ovid.com
Questel.Orbit - www.questel.com
Qwam System - www.qwam.info
STN International - www.stn-international.de
