PASCAL (database)

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PASCAL
Producer INIST (France)
Languages French, English, Spanish
Access
Providers Datastar, Dialog, Ovid Technologies, Questel.Orbit, QWAM System, STN International
CostSubscription
Coverage
Disciplines Science, technology, medicine
Record depthIndex & abstract
Format coverageJournal articles (88%); conference proceedings (9%); dissertations, books, patents, reports (3%)
Temporal coverage1973-present
Geospatial coverageWorldwide, with emphasis on France and Europe
No. of records> 17,000,000
Update frequencyWeekly
Links
Website www.inist.fr?PASCAL-73&lang=en

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]

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References

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  2. Jagodzinski-Sigogneau, M.; Bauin, S.; Courtial, J. P.; Feillet, H. (1991). "Scientific innovation in bibliographical databases: A comparative study of the science citation index and the pascal database". Scientometrics. 22: 65–82. doi:10.1007/BF02019275. S2CID   2235505.
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