Contact: Michael Miyazaki
(301) 961-6761 or E-mail: mmiyazaki@csa.com

For Immediate Release

FRANCIS Now Available Through CSA Illumina

BETHESDA, MD, USA (15 February 2006) -- FRANCIS, the international humanities and social sciences database, is now available through the CSA Illumina platform. FRANCIS provides broad international coverage of a wide range of subjects in the fields of humanities, social sciences and economics. This multilingual database includes a particular emphasis on European publications; a significant number of the abstracts and citations are to works in European languages.

'We are extremely pleased to have added FRANCIS to our humanities offerings," said Matt Dunie, President of CSA. "This database provides important international resources in the humanities that give researchers a valuable perspective on issues that are highly pertinent today."

FRANCIS provides coverage of more than 2000 journals as well as books and other documents. Citation information is given in both French and English. FRANCIS contains more than 1.03 million records and is updated monthly, with 36,000 records added per year.

FRANCIS is published by t he Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (INIST), a service unit of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Additional information about FRANCIS is available at info.csa.com/francis. At that site, interested institutions may also register for complimentary trial access to FRANCIS or any other database available through the CSA Illumina platform.

The CSA Illumina platform provides users with both an easy to use Quick Search feature as well as powerful tools for the expert searcher. CSA Illumina also features extensive links to holdings and full-text resources, as well as its unique Web Resources Database.

Other Arts & Humanities databases available through CSA Illumina include:

• ARTBibliographies Modern
• ATLA Religion Database
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
• BHI: British Humanities Index
• Biography of the History of Art
• Design and Applied Arts Index
• CSA Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
• Index Islamicus
• MLA Directory of Periodicals
• MLA International Bibliography
• Philosopher's Index
• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

Named as an EContent top 100 company for 2005, CSA serves as a guide to researchers to facilitate their effectiveness by enabling and expediting discovery, aiding the management and organization of quality information, and providing tools to assist in its subsequent dissemination. CSA specializes in publishing and distributing in print and electronically 100 bibliographic and full-text databases and journals in four primary editorial areas: natural sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities, and technology. A privately held company, CSA is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, with offices throughout the U.S. as well as in such locations as Australia, China, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Russia and the United Kingdom. Researchers in more than 4,000 institutions in 80 countries use CSA's information resources. CSA has been a leader in publishing and an innovator in the information field for over 30 years. www.csa.com

For further information, contact Michael Miyazaki, Marketing Manager, CSA (Tel. +1 301 961 6761 / E-mail: mmiyazaki@csa.com).

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