FRANCIS offers extensive bibliographic indexing for over 2.5 million records dating back to 1972. Produced by Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS), the database provides multidisciplinary and multilingual coverage of humanities and social sciences. Source documents include journal articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and reports.

Topics covered in this database include: administrative sciences, archeology, art history, business management, company management, data processing and law, economics, education, employment and training, energy economics, ethnology, geography, history of science, information science, Latin America, linguistics, literature, philosophy, prehistory, psychology, public health, religion, and sociology.

If FRANCIS is of interest, the following items may be of interest as well:

• Academic Search™ Complete
• PASCAL