The site is an archive of the PASCAL and FRANCIS bibliographic databases in exact, human and social sciences, produced by the Inist-CNRS from 1972 to 2015.

It provides access to more than  20 million references (articles, patents, maps, conferences, books, reports and theses) in exact sciences and technology, biological and medical sciences, art, archaeology, economics, ethnology, geography, history of science and technology, literature, linguistics,  administrative and legal sciences, education and religion sciences.

When possible, access to full-text is proposed.

Stopped in 2015, this archive does not report any new documentary resources.