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FRANCIS is a multilingual, multidisciplinary database providing indepth coverage of the humanities and social sciences, with abstracts for 80% of its records since 2000. Because of its interdisciplinary nature, FRANCIS is especially useful for finding documents on topics at the interface between several disciplines and seldom covered in specialized databases.

Its broad subject areas and international scope make FRANCIS an ideal stand-alone social science database, as well as a suitable complement for more specialized databases.

FRANCIS contains over 3 million bibliographic recors from 1972 to the present with 80% of the records since 2000 containing abstracts. Its subject coverage includes:
* Social Sciences: Administrative Sciences, Business Management, Economics, Education, Energy Economics, Ethnology, Geography, Public Health, Information Science, Latin America, Computers and Law, Sociology.
* Humanities: Archeology, Art History, History of Science, Literature, Linguistics, Philosophy, Prehistory and Protohistory, Psychology, Religion.

The source documents include: * Journal articles 79%
* Books 9%
* Proceedings, reports, dissertations, exibition catalogs 7%
* Other 5%

Each file in FRANCIS has its specific vocabulary. All files are indexed in French and in English. The Latin America and History of Sciences files are also indexed in Spanish and the Computer Processing and Legal Sciences file is also indexed in German.

Product Description	Updated	Access	Status	Platform
FRANCIS - Current File Latest 9 - 10 Years	Weekly	Internet	Released	Ovid
FRANCIS (BackFile + Current File) 1984 to Present	Weekly	Internet,Local	Released	SilverPlatter
FRANCIS - Current File Latest 9 - 10 Years	Weekly	Internet,Local	Released	SilverPlatter

• ERIC-Quarterly Update-1966 to Present
• Pascal 1984 +
• Philosopher's Index with Quarterly Updates - 1940 to Present
• PsycINFO 1887 - Present: Weekly Internet/QUIKdata; Monthly CD
• EconLit with Monthly Updates 1969+
• GeoRef 12 Mo Sub w/Monthly Updts (N.Amer-1785+)/(World-1933+)
• FSTA Monthly Updates 1990+
• Medline (1950-Date)
• INSPEC Weekly Updates Internet/QUIKdata access only 1969 to Pres
• INDEX to FOREIGN LEGAL PERIODICALS 12 Mo Sub w/Qtly Updts 1985+