EMBASE - Coverage, Interfaces, Searchability

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Introduction

Interfaces

Coverage

Embase - or Excerpta Medica database - is a key biomedical and pharmacological database with more than 12 million bibliographic records spanning 1974-present, indexed from 5,000+ journals from 70 countries. It is primarily remembered by information retrieval experts as a complement to Medline, and for its pharmacy coverage and European content.

  • Over 600,000 citations and abstracts added annually
  • Fully-indexed citations, indexing terms, and codes
  • 80% of all citations in EMBASE include author-written abstracts
  • EMTREE thesaurus, organized alphabetically, which includes approximately 46,000 preferred terms
  • More than 20,000 drugs and chemicals) and more than 200,000 synonyms
  • Drug indexing by trade name, manufacturer name, clinical trials, and more

EMBASE® is available via OvidSP and fully-indexed with complete author abstracts twenty days after receipt of content. Some abstracts are available via Scirus and Google scholar. Embase records contain full bibliographic information, controlled terms and codes.

Searchability

Embase, produced by Elsevier, is useful for topics related to drugs, pharmacology, toxicology, clinical and experimental medicine, health policy and management, public and occupational health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering/instrumentation.

  • What are its strengths? drug research, pharmacology and toxicology.
  • Embase has stronger psychiatry coverage compared to Medline.
  • 35-50% overlap with Medline, but Embase has a European rather than an American bias.
  • Anglo-centric terms and phrases are more common.
  • Embase includes literature as far back as 1974; updated monthly and searchable on OvidSP interface.

See also

References
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