What is Embase?

Find quick, accurate answers to your biomedical questions

With over 25 million indexed records and more than 7,600 currently indexed peer-reviewed journals, Embase is a highly versatile, multipurpose and up-to-date database covering the most important international biomedical literature from 1947 to the present day.

All MEDLINE records produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) are included, as well over 5 million records not covered on MEDLINE.

Embase’s unique and comprehensive journal and conference coverage, together with in-depth drug indexing and daily updates including Articles in Press, supports tracking and precise retrieval of drug and disease information - giving you the confidence and tools you need to capture the most relevant and up-to-date information.

Embase is most commonly used:

• To track drugs and devices in market, in order to file safety reports;
• As a source for Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and systematic reviews;
• To search and filter relevant literature to support research and discovery;

Embase offers:

• The most relevant results—indexed by biomedical experts using Elsevier’s unique life science thesaurus, Emtree, which includes chemical names, trade names, and laboratory/research codes mapped to generic names for more than 30,000 drugs and chemicals.
• Comprehensive content—over 25 million records from more than 7,600 current peer reviewed journals, including more than 2,000 titles not available on MEDLINE.
• Conference coverage—over 2,000 conferences and more than 600,000 conference abstracts published in journals and journal supplements since 2009.