embase presentation march 2010
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Welcome to Embase Training
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Gali Halevi, M.L.S, PhD
Account Development Manager
Agenda
1. The Basics…
2. New Features…
3. For More Information…
Review• Largest single biomedical database
available:– Embase plus Medline(deduplicated)– Over 20 million records– Updated daily (over 600k new records per year)– 7000 journals from over 70 countries indexed
• Embase from 1974• Embase Classic from 1946• Medline from 1966, plus OldMedline
(back to 1950)!
MEDLINE1,800 unique titles
Embase is Elsevier’s webplatform for EMBASE and MEDLINE
EMBASE 4,800 journals including 1,800 unique titles
Embase And Medline Combined!
All 3,000 overlapping journals are indexed by
EMTREE
EMTREE: Unrivaled Drug Indexing
• Over 56,000 preferred terms (of which more than 27,000 are drugs and chemicals)
• More than 230,000 synonyms (with over 144,000 drugs and chemical synonyms)
• 7,500 explosion terms
• 78 subheadings (64 drug subheadings and 14 disease subheadings)
• 20,300 links to CAS registry numbers
• Includes All MeSH terms , many as synonyms
New! Conference Abstracts Added
• New Publication Types: Conference Abstracts and Conference Reviews
• Conferences published in supplements in up to 3,000 clinical and drug-related journals are covered• In 2009, over 10,000 abstracts from 70 conferences
added. • In 2010, 2009 data will be back-filled & coverage will
increase by 500-1000 conferences & 50,000-100,000 abstracts per year.
• All conference items are indexed with EMTREE and include additional fields for conference name, location and date
New! Refine Results Box
The Refine Tool enables filtering of search results, by selecting specific
post-search limits
New! Drug & Disease Key Subheadings• Key Subheadings supplement Index Terms
with additional information, showing drug-drug and drug-disease relationships
• The additional information is applied to the following subheadings (when information is available): • drugs: adverse drug reaction, drug therapy, drug
combination, drug comparison, drug interaction; • diseases: drug therapy, side effect
• Key Subheadings are available in Embase from January 2007, apart from drug therapy, which is available from March 2009
New! Articles In Press
• Articles in Press in Embase.com will be indexed! You will be able to:– Search Articles in Press using EMTREE– Limit searches to Articles in Press, retrieving only
the latest information, ahead of print – Define alerts to include (or exclude) Articles in
Press
New! Search by Clinical Trial
• Find and analyze records reporting on a specific clinical trial that has been registered at either – ClinicalTrials.gov (NIH)– ISRCTN.org (Current Controlled Trials) – EudraCT (EMEA)
• Limit your search to only records with clinical trial numbers by selecting 'with Clinical Trial Number' in the Advanced, Drug and Disease Search Forms.
• Or Search for specific clinical trial numbers by applying :cn from the 'Field Limits' in the Advanced Search Form or adding :cn directly to your clinical trial number search.
Linking To ScopusLink to Citations in Scopus directly from Embasesearch results and full records…
The New Info.Embase.Com
• Totally revamped, with helpful tutorials and content guides, including:• Medline and Embase Comparisons• Updates on New Releases (4 since August
’09!)• And more…
Contact Me
Gali HaleviMLS, PhD
Account Development Manager
+1 (646) 248 9464
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