Ascodocpsy

What Ascodocpsy does

Ascodocpsy is a French non-profit public interest group (Groupement d'Intérêt Public, GIP) headquartered in Lyon that provides documentary, archival, and training services to French psychiatric and mental-health establishments. Founded informally in 1984 and converted into successive GIP structures (2000 and a second-generation GIP in 2021), the organization serves more than 100 member establishments through a professional network of over 200 archivists and documentalists. Its member base is anchored by founding associations including AdESM and ANPCME, and its operations are organized around specialized bibliographic content for the mental-health sector.

The core technology stack is built on SantéPsy, a bibliographic database implemented on the open-source PMB/PhpMyBibli library platform, indexed using the proprietary Thesaurus SantéPsy — a domain-specific controlled vocabulary developed over four decades for psychiatric literature. Complementary products include NumAdoc (archival records), the Archimède and Le Fil d'Asco newsletters, on-demand bibliographies, and Qualiopi-certified training programs delivered since June 2022. Recent additions include a GACAP-partnered documentary sub-brand on architecture in psychiatry (July 2025) and an AI guide for member archivists published in 2026.

Revenue is generated primarily through membership fees scaled to each member establishment's psychiatric funding allocation, supplemented by training revenue (billable via French OPCO funds under Qualiopi certification) and modest publication income. The organization operates with a small permanent staff of approximately eight employees, which constrains scale but keeps the cost structure aligned with its non-profit, member-funded model. Ascodocpsy's strategic position rests on accumulated bibliographic content, specialized indexing vocabularies, and regulatory standing rather than technology differentiation.

Name

Ascodocpsy

Legal name

GIP Ascodocpsy

Website

https://ascodocpsy.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1984

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Ascodocpsy is a French non-profit GIP, headquartered in Lyon, that provides documentary, archival, and training services to more than 100 French psychiatric and mental-health establishments, anchored by a specialized bibliographic database and proprietary Thesaurus SantéPsy.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Lyon

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership fees (cotisations): Ascodocpsy is financed through membership fees calculated based on each establishment's psychiatric funding allocation (dotation psychiatrie). For associations and training institutes, a fixed membership fee applies. This is the sole revenue source for this non-profit public interest group.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Ascodocpsy operates a national documentary and hospital-archive network for psychiatry, providing member psychiatric and mental-health establishments with the SantéPsy bibliographic database and Thesaurus, monthly newsletters (Archimède and Le Fil d'Asco), bibliographies and thematic dossiers, weekly press reviews, the NumAdoc digital archive-management platform, and Qualiopi-certified continuing training for archivists and documentalists. Services are delivered through institutional membership and a website portal serving 100 member establishments across France.

Product overview

Ascodocpsy is a documentary and archival network in mental health operating since 1984 as a Groupement d'Intérêt Public (GIP), serving 100 member establishments. The organization operates a platform-plus-services model centered on the SantéPsy database with its specialized Thesaurus SantéPsy, supplemented by the Archimède newsletter for hospital archives and Le Fil d'Asco for network news. Additional offerings include bibliographies, documentary dossiers, press reviews, NumAdoc digital archive management, and professional training programs Qualiopi certified since June 2022. The network also provides collaboration tools, art and psychiatry resources, and architecture-psychiatry consulting through the GACAP group. Services are accessible through free public access, membership subscriptions for archives services, or membership for documentation services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SantéPsy: Documentary database in psychiatry, mental health, nursing care, and hospital management
• Base SantéPsy
• Archimède
• NumAdoc
• Le Fil d'Asco

Products and services

• SantéPsy Database

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• AdESM (Association des Établissements du Service Médical)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Founding association of the GIP Ascodocpsy. Represents mental health establishments within the network.
• ANPCME (Association Nationale des Présidents de CME des CHSP)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Founding association of the GIP Ascodocpsy. National association of CME presidents from specialized psychiatric hospitals.
• GACAP (Groupe d'Appui et de Conseil en Architecture Psychiatrique)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAscodocpsy participates in GACAP activities since July 2025. GACAP develops tools, information and events for actors participating in architectural projects in health establishments.
• ADESMcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAssociation of Medical Service Establishments - founding member of GIP Ascodocpsy.
• AEMPSY (Association des équipes mobiles en psychiatrie)minorOthersPartner organization in psychiatric care.
• AFAR (Association Française des Attachés de Recherche Clinique)minorOthersListed as partner organization.
• ANAP (Agence Nationale d'Appui à la Performance)minorOthersListed as partner.
• Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1minorOthersHost of mailing lists (Sympa) used for newsletters distribution. Partner since network inception.
• HAS (Haute Autorité de Santé)minorOthersHealth regulatory body whose recommendations are tracked and disseminated through the network.
• EPSM Lille MétropoleminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHost of the 'Art, psychiatry and archives' study day on October 9, 2026, organized in partnership with Ascodocpsy.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• ANAP (Agence Nationale d'Appui à la Performance): French government agency supporting performance improvement in health and medico-social establishments. An ecosystem partner already listed among Ascodocpsy's partners, not a competitor; relevant as a comparable public-sector support body for healthcare establishments.
• AdESM (Association des Établissements du Service Médical de santé mentale): Founding association of Ascodocpsy's GIP, representing French mental-health establishments. Adjacent rather than competitive — Ascodocpsy delivers documentary services to AdESM's members, making it an ecosystem partner more than a peer in the commercial sense.

Broad incumbents

• Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF): French national library and major information-services institution. Functions as a broader incumbent in the same information-services space, with overlapping cataloging, archival, and reference functions but at vastly larger scale and scope than Ascodocpsy's psychiatric niche.

Direct peers

• EAHIL (European Association for Health Information and Libraries): European professional association for health information professionals and librarians. Direct functional peer to Ascodocpsy's pan-establishment health-documentation network model, with overlapping membership and continuing-education activity.
• ABF (Association des Bibliothécaires de France): French national association of librarians organized as a membership body for information professionals. Highly comparable model to Ascodocpsy's GIP structure serving a similar library/archival professional constituency in France.
• ADBS / APROGED (Association des professionnels de l'information et de la documentation): French association for information and documentation professionals. Closely comparable as a membership-based professional network supporting documentary practices, training, and resource sharing — a structurally similar organization to Ascodocpsy at a broader sectoral level.

Regional players

• CHLA / ABSC (Canadian Health Libraries Association): Canadian health information professionals association. Comparable in serving health librarians and information specialists through a membership and continuing-education model, but geographically distinct.
• MLA (Medical Library Association): US-based professional association for health information professionals. Comparable in mission (professional development, continuing education, advocacy for medical librarians) but operates in a different geography and a substantially larger scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCIGWxbt9w6nTZ6fmBiiAeaQ
• Facebookfacebook.com/ascodocpsy
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ascodocpsy

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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