| FRANCIS | |
| Producer: | INIST |
| Country: | France |
| Languages: | English, French, German, Spanish |
| Providers: | EBSCO, ProQuest, Ovid Technologies |
| Cost: | Subscription |
| Disciplines: | Humanities, social sciences |
| Depth: | Index & abstract |
| Formats: | Journal articles (79%); Books (9%), Conference proceedings, dissertations, reports, exhibition catalogs (7%), Other (5%) |
| Temporal: | 1972-present |
| Geospatial: | Worldwide, with emphasis on France and Europe |
| Number: | > 2.600.000 |
| Updates: | Weekly |
FRANCIS is an academic bibliographic database maintained by INIST. FRANCIS covers the core academic literature in the humanities and social sciences with special emphasis on European literature.
INIST-CNRS is now providing free access to the FRANCIS database, along with PASCAL database content, on their website.[1]