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] As of 2012[update], PASCAL maintains a database of more than 17 million records, 90% of which are author abstracts.
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%.
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