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PASCAL Citations File Available for Free Searching
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PACS-L Moderator)
Thu Sep 5 20:52:10 1996
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 17:27:03 -0500 (CDT)
From: PACS-L Moderator <libpacs@UH.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU>
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU>
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>From: "Win-Shin Chiang" <BL.WSC@RLG.ORG>
>Subject: PASCAL Citations File Available for Free Searching
>
> PASCAL Citations File Available for Free Searching
>
><Cross posted to several RLG and non-RLG listservs. Apologies for
>the duplication.>
>
>The Research Libraries Group, Inc. (RLG) is pleased to announce the
>availability of the PASCAL file through its CitaDel citation access
>and document delivery service on Monday, September 9.
>
>Along with two dozen other CitaDel files, PASCAL is accessible by
>annual campuswide (multiuser) subscription, using RLG's user-friendly
>Eureka searching interface or Zephyr Z39.50 server; Zephyr allows an
>institution to offer RLG data to its users through the local system
>with which they are already familiar.
>
>Produced by the French Institut de l'Information Scientifique et
>Technique (INIST), PASCAL is a citations database representing one of
>the world's largest collections of research sources in the sciences.
>Its multidisciplinary, multilingual format provides an important new
>tool for those conducting research in a global environment and
>affords a highly relevant counterpoint to narrowly focused subject
>area files.
>
>To help you assess the relevance of PASCAL to your program, RLG and
>INIST offer unlimited free searching for the month of September. To
>avail yourself to this opportunity or to know more about this file,
>ask your librarian to contact an RLG account manager or the RLIN
>Information Center at bl.sal@rlg.org or (800) 537-RLIN now.
>
>Here are what information specialists and reference librarians have
>been saying about PASCAL:
>
>"PASCAL is a multidomain database providing citations and abstracts
>of worldwide journals and other published literature covering the
>numerous disciplines of science and technology." (Kazimierz Kowalski
>and Timothy Hackett, "The Yield of Bibliographic Databases," Library
>& Information Science Research, Spring 1992)
>
>"It is an excellent supplementary database [particularly] if
>exhaustive coverage of a topic is required." (Ann Coppin, Reference
>Librarian, USC Science and Engineering Library, April 1996)
>
>
> BASIC FACTS ABOUT PASCAL
>
>Offers one of the world's largest collections of research sources in
>the sciences, covering major French and international research in
>science, technology and medicine. The language of citations is
>predominantly English (75%), followed by French (10%), and other
>languages (15%).
>
>
>Provides invaluable sources of information from the U.S., Europe, and
>Asia, as well as the potential for pursuing multidisciplinary
>research in related fields such as earth sciences and civil
>engineering. Especially useful in strong French research fields
>such as AIDS.
>
>Provides extensive indexing and abstracts for most citations in
>English or French.
>
>Major subject coverage includes: Health Sciences and Medicine (33%),
>Biology (25%), Engineering and Applied Sciences (15%), Physics (12%),
>Land - Sea - Space (9%), Chemistry (6%).
>
>RLG's CitaDel service offers full coverage from 1991 to date with
>over 3 million records, updated monthly. Access is through
>institutional annual subscriptions at the level of 5 or more
>simultaneous users.
>
>To: PACS-L@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU
>
