EMBASE.com: the Power of EMBASE and MEDLINE Combined
EMBASE.com, from Elsevier Science, combines the power of EMBASE and MEDLINE in one search interface. EMBASE is a bibliographic database, noteworthy for its extensive coverage of drug and pharmaceutical literature and its international scope with coverage of many more European and Asian journals than MEDLINE. Other subject areas indexed in-depth by EMBASE include health policy and management, substance dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic science, and biomedical engineering and instrumentation.
A significant number of journals indexed in EMBASE are not covered by MEDLINE, making EMBASE.com a good choice to complement MEDLINE searches and a must for authors of systematic reviews.
EMBASE.com uses its own controlled vocabulary, EMTREE Terms, rather than the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), used by MEDLINE. MEDLINE citations are re-indexed with EMTREE Terms, allowing effective searching of both databases simultaneously.
EMBASE.com offers six search forms:
• Quick: for simple searches; not all limits are available
• Advanced: for more complex searches; allows for greater flexibility and access to all available limits
• Field: allows user to specify which field to search in (e.g. title, author, drug trade name)
• Drug: includes specialized limits such as route of entry
• Disease: includes subheading limits such as side effect, surgery, prevention, etc…
• Article: easy retrieval of a known citation
Other tools in EMBASE.com allow the option to:
• Save searches
• Use a clipboard to accumulate and store search results
• Create folders and subfolders to store search results and saved searches
• Set up email alerts
• Download results into bibliographic management software
EMBASE.com can be accessed by typing "Embase.com" into the search.HSLS box on the HSLS home page.
--Ahlam Saleh
