Have you ever heard of FRANCIS? This database may be very useful for you if you need any bibliographic reference on the human and social sciences.

Created in 1972, it has been produced and managed by the Centre de Documentation Sciences Humaines (CDSH) of the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, a branch of the “Ministere des Universites”.

This computerized file has been increasing by 90,000 new items each year and now contains about 1,000,000, from which may be extracted any research literature from all over the world in the fields of geography, ethnology, linguistics, religion, administative science, sociology, education, prehistory etc. The references obtained contain bibliographic information, keywords and often abstracts of the documents (articles, books, theses, working papers, symposium proceedings, conferences etc). These documents are published in all European languages but above all in French and English.