PASCAL is a scientific

bibliographic database A bibliographic database is a database of bibliographic records. This is an organised online collection of references to published written works like academic journal, journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings, reports, government an ...

, which is maintained by

INIST The Institut de l'information scientifique et technique, or INIST () is the CNRS centre of documentation located in France. It has as mission to collect, treat and diffuse results of scientific and technical research. The INIST produces three bi ...

( CNRS). PASCAL covers the core scientific literature in science, technology and medicine with a special emphasis on European literature. , PASCAL maintains a database of more than 17 million records, 90% of which are author abstracts. Its coverage is from 1973 to present. Its source documents are composed of journal articles at 88% (3,085 international titles), proceedings at 9%, and dissertations, books, patents, and reports account combined for 3%.

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* Bibliographic databases and indexes French National Centre for Scientific Research {{database-stub