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Effortless Precision in Searching

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Effortless Precision in Searching

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What is Embase.com?What is Embase.com?

Biggest single biomedical and

pharmacological bibliographic database

7,000+ peer-reviewed journals including

entire MEDLINE content (deduplicated)

2,000 journal titles exclusively in EMBASE

19 million records 1974 onwards (with

Classic, back to 1947)

600,000 records added annually

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Effortless Precision Effortless Precision

Embase offers multiple, integrated tools, that provide cohesive search synergy.

1. Searchers carried in one tool can be carried over to another2. Each records provides multiple inner and outer links to enhance information discovery

Embase provides effortless search precision via extensive indexing and search

refinement Options.

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Search ToolsSearch Tools

Double – level search options

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Integrated Search solutionsIntegrated Search solutions

In addition, Embase supports search flexibility by allowing for common and genericnames searches in all search forms

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Inner Connectivity in Every RecordInner Connectivity in Every Record

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EMTREE ThesaurusEMTREE Thesaurus55,000+ preferred terms of which 27,000 drug terms, and

225,000+

synonyms (it Includes entire MeSH and is twice as large)

Terms in EMTREE allow comprehensive searches for whole groups of

drugs or diseases as well as precision searches focusing on specific

drug/disease Aspects.

Organized in a tree structure, with extensive polyhierarchy, providing

consistent description of biomedical information

Rich in synonyms which are derived from: Alternative spellingsTrade names (incl. research and laboratory codes)Chemical namesMeSH terms

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Embase – Medline ComparisonEmbase – Medline ComparisonEMBASE.com covers over 1,800 biomedical journals that are not covered in PubMed.

EMTREE, covers 55,000 preferred terms (including 27,000 drug terms) and includes both MEDLINE and EMBASE records. In contrast, MeSH only covers 25,000 preferred terms (7,000 drug terms).

EMBASE.com has a wider coverage of biomedicalinformation and the in-depth indexing enables users tonarrow down their searches and generate more effective search results.

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Comparative Geographical CoverageComparative Geographical Coverage

10%

54%

31%

5%

Asia & Australia

Europe

North America

ROW

8%

45%

44%

3%

Asia & Australia

Europe

North America

ROW

Medline

Embase

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What’s New on Embase.com?What’s New on Embase.com?

EMBASE.com has been enhanced with the addition of over 1.2 million MEDLINE records from 1950-1965.

Clinical Trial Numbers are now listed in the additional information section of the Record View. Clicking on the hyperlink, links out to the source (e.g. ClinicalTrials.gov), providing detailed information on the registered trial.

Image Based Linking is now available. Users who have a link provider which supports Image Based Linking will be able to see whether their institute has access to the full text. Please contact your regional helpdesk to have this function enabled.

The Records Page highlights terms retrieved from explosion searches (in green) in the index term field.

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New Search CapabilitiesNew Search CapabilitiesRecords unique to EMBASE can be retrieved by the

search: [embase]/lim NOT [medline]/limNEAR/n requests terms that are within n words of each

other, in either order. For example, symptom NEAR/5 headache retrieves records with at most 4 words between the search terms symptom and headache (in either order).

NEXT/n requests terms that are within n words of each other, in the order specified.

The proximity operators NEAR and NEXT can be used with parentheses, truncation and field limits, for example: (symptom* NEAR/5 (headache* OR ‘head ache’)):TI,AB

New “Autocomplete” feature offers guidance for selection of search terms (using EMTREE terms which begin with the same character string).

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Live Demo & Searches Live Demo & Searches

Lets’ try some searches on Embase.com

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Search Topic 1:Search Topic 1:

Find articles on vaccine against Lyme

disease, but NOT Lymerix, and NOT in

dogs

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Find recent articles on salmonella in

tomatoes and peppers

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Find articles on zebrafish or ‘danio rerio’ with Molecular Sequence Numbers

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Find recent articles on Phase 3 clinical trials of chemotherapy for breast cancer

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Search Topic : Drug SearchSearch Topic : Drug Search

Find articles on the reactions of Claritin

in kids

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EMTREE ToolEMTREE Tool

Find articles on Valium by using

‘Find Term’

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For more information on Embase go to:www.info.embase.com

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