PASCAL PASCAL is a multilingual multidisciplinary bibliographic

							PASCAL
PASCAL is a multilingual multidisciplinary bibliographic database in Science,Technology and
Medicine.
Source: INIST-CNRS

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.

With over 17 million records from 1973 to the present; 90% of the records since 2000 contain author abstracts.
Keywords are in French, English and Spanish. The subject coverage is:
   * Medical, Pharmaceutical and Psychological Sciences 31%
   * Life Sciences, Biology 22%
   * Engineering Sciences 20%
   * Physics and Mathematics 15%
   * Earth and Space 7%
from the following source documents:
   * Journal articles - 88% (3,085 international titles)
   * Proceedings - 9%
   * Dissertations, books, patents, reports - 3%

  * Chemical Sciences 5%




Broad Subjects:                                    Specific Subjects:
                                                   Multidisciplinary Life & Medical Sciences
Clinical Medicine; Life Sciences; Health Professions

Access Options:
n Ovid Internet, updated Monthly
n SilverPlatter Internet, updated Monthly
n SilverPlatter Local, updated Monthly


Other Information:
n Coverage: 1984 - Present                              n   Online Equivalent: PASCAL
n Data Type: Bibliographic with Abstracts               n   Number of Records: 17 million+
n Records Added Annually: 450,000+