FRANCIS

{{Short description|French academic bibliographic database}}

{{about|the database|other uses|Francis (disambiguation)}}

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{{Infobox Bibliographic Database

| title = FRANCIS

| producer = INIST

| country = France

| history =

| languages = English, French, German, Spanish

| providers = EBSCO, ProQuest, Ovid Technologies

| cost = Subscription

| disciplines = Humanities, social sciences

| depth = Index & abstract

| formats = Journal articles (79%); Books (9%), Conference proceedings, dissertations, reports, exhibition catalogs (7%), Other (5%)

| temporal = 1972-present

| geospatial = Worldwide, with emphasis on France and Europe

| number = > 2.600.000

| updates = Weekly

| web = {{URL|1=http://www.inist.fr/?Francis-74&lang=en}}

}}

FRANCIS is an academic bibliographic database maintained by INIST. FRANCIS covers the core academic literature in the humanities and social sciences with special emphasis on European literature.

INIST-CNRS is now providing free access to the FRANCIS database, along with PASCAL database content, on their website.{{cite web |title=FRANCIS Database moves from EBSCOhost to free version |url=https://cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2017/01/20/francis-database-moves-from-ebscohost-to-free-version/ |website=California Digital Library |date=20 January 2017}}