August 1 release

Dear Embase.com customer,

The Embase team is delighted to announce a major Embase.com release, scheduled for Saturday August 1st.  This release, which is the result of an ongoing major investment program in the product, will introduce significant improvements to both content and search options within Embase.com (see the Release Fact Sheet, August 2009). Underlying is the transition to a new search engine which will enable many more improvements in the months ahead.

Key customer benefits available in August

• Addition of RefWorks offers extended options to export, manage, store and share Embase search results
• New Autocomplete feature accelerates finding most relevant search terms and search results
• Preview of Abstract and Index terms saves time to get to the requested information
• Addition of Medline years 1950-1965 further enhances comprehensiveness in searching the biomedical literature
• Embase-unique records as well as Medline unique records are now tagged, enabling easy selection of the source database

Phased releases

The August release represents a major milestone for Embase.com, and will be followed by releases in the autumn and following months, which will incorporate new features discussed and planned in collaboration with key customers.

Our goal is to ensure that new features, based on your input, will be incorporated into future releases of Embase.com as quickly as possible. The Embase team will be attending major exhibitions during the summer, where you will have the opportunity to preview future functionality and give us your feedback.

Customer impact and support of the August 1st release

• Embase.com will be transitioned to the new platform from Friday 31st July (9:00 GMT) until Saturday 1st August (17:00 GMT)
• During this transition period you will be able to search the old platform as usual
• All new alerts, clipboards and saved searches created during the transition period will be converted to the new platform (though they may not become visible until Monday 3rd August)
• Any updates or deletions to existing email alerts, clipboard or saved searches during the transition period will not be transferred to the new platform
• To support this transition, we are making available a special support mailbox (Embaserelease@elsevier.com), which will also be accessible via a link on the new Embase.com home page.  If you experience any difficulty at all with the new platform (e.g. with email alerts or saved searches), don’t hesitate to contact us

We hope you will enjoy the benefits of the new Embase.com platform as we continue to develop it to meet your needs. For further product updates, news and activities, please check the Info site and the Embase.com forum.

Kind regards,
The Embase team