| PASCAL | |
| Producer: | INIST |
| Country: | France |
| Languages: | French, English, Spanish |
| Providers: | Datastar, Dialog, Ovid Technologies, Questel.Orbit, QWAM System, STN International |
| Cost: | Subscription |
| Disciplines: | Science, technology, medicine |
| Depth: | Index & abstract |
| Formats: | Journal articles (88%); conference proceedings (9%); dissertations, books, patents, reports (3%) |
| Temporal: | 1973-present |
| Geospatial: | Worldwide, with emphasis on France and Europe |
| Number: | > 17,000,000 |
| Updates: | Weekly |
PASCAL is a scientific bibliographic database, which is maintained by INIST (CNRS). PASCAL covers the core scientific literature in science, technology and medicine with a special emphasis on European literature.[1] [2]
, 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%.[3]