Description of the PASCAL database

File description | Availability | Partner organizations

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

• Medical, Pharmaceutical and Psychological Sciences 31%
• Life Sciences, Biology 22%
• Engineering Sciences 20%
• Physics and Mathematics 15%
• Earth and Space 7%
• Chemical Sciences 5%

  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%

Availability

• Online information services
  
  

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
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