Pascal and Francis Bibliographic Databases
Latest screenshot: 2024-07-19
Access to search interface:
open
Last major interface update:
N/A
Owner of search system:
INIST-CNRS Institute for scientific and technical information
Location of system headquarters:
Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, FR
Year of launch:
1971
Type:
Bibliographic database
X-Handle:
Description of search system (by system owner)
The site is an archive of the PASCAL and FRANCIS bibliographic databases in exact, human and social sciences, produced by the Inist-CNRS from 1972 to 2015. It provides access to more than 20 millions references (articles, patents, maps, conferences, books, reports and thesis) in exact sciences and technology, in biological and medical sciences, in art, archaeology, economics, ethnology, geography, history of science and technology, literature, linguistics, administrative and legal sciences, education and religion sciences.
Total coverage:
20.78M
Year-over-year growth (2014-2015):
-99.37%
Subject coverage:
Multidisciplinary
Retrospective coverage:
1850–2015
Record types:
12
Open Access records:
N/A
Search functionality and interface
Systematic keyword searching:
limited
Backward citation searching:
limited
Forward citation searching:
limited
Query builder:
Search history:
Match preview:
Sorting options:
2
Query
Latency with short query:
0.78 seconds
Latency with long query:
1.56 seconds
Controlled vocabulary:
Field codes:
19
Full text search:
Search string length (narrow):
1000 terms max.
Search string length (wide):
100 terms max.
Language support: Chinese:
Language support: Cyrillic:
Truncation:
Wildcards:
Keyword position irrelevant:
Longer strings, fewer hits:
Automatic query expansion (stemming):
Verbatim queries:
Reproducible queries (time):
Reproducible queries (locations):
Operators
Search operators:
8
Boolean 'OR':
Boolean 'AND':
Boolean 'NOT':
Proximity operator:
Boolean works exact:
Nested search (parentheses):
Citation search / filtering
Record type filters:
12
Results filters:
7
Suggested related records:
Supported by bibliometric tools:
N/A
Backward citation information:
Backward citation score:
N/A
Forward citation information:
Forward citation score:
N/A
Retrieval
Number of accessible records:
Full
Bulk select records:
Bulk export records:
20782337
Export formats:
6
API:
no
Bulk select records' backward citations:
Bulk export backward citations:
N/A
Bulk select records' forward citations:
Bulk export forward citations:
N/A
