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Benefits

Providing extensive and reliable coverage of peer-reviewed biomedical literature, along with deep indexing, power searching and sophisticated information management tools, with Embase you can be confident that all relevant, up-to-date, biomedical information from the research literature has been captured.

Confidence

If you're searching Medline, you're only seeing part of the picture. Embase holds over 24 million indexed records from more than 7,500 active, authoritative journals, including all of Medline as well as 2,000 biomedical journals not currently covered by Medline. It gives you comprehensive, authoritative, reliable coverage of all relevant biomedical literature.

With Embase you can be confident that you are not missing any critical drug and disease coverage from the literature. In short, Medline alone is not enough.

Deep Indexing

Embase is deeply and consistently indexed by experts, using our unique life science thesaurus Emtree.

Supporting unrivaled drug and disease indexing, Emtree allows you to extract precisely the information you are looking for. So, with Embase, you can rest assured that you’ll get the complete picture, without irrelevant or misleading results.

Embase’s drug indexing is underpinned by chemical names, trade names and laboratory/research codes that are mapped to generic names for more than 27,000 drugs and chemicals. More than twice as large as Medline’s thesaurus MeSH and including all MeSH terms, Emtree opens up access to the literature via more than 230,000 synonyms.

To find out more, read our Indexing Fact Sheet

Precise Retrieval

If you are searching the drug and drug-related literature without using Embase, you may retrieve irrelevant results. You could find adverse events which are unrelated to your drug, for example.

Embase helps you find only relevant results for your drug. It helps you to quickly pinpoint only adverse events for the drug of your interest. You can link to the relevant full text directly without unnecessary sorting. Your reports will be realistic, with minimal misleading results.

By helping you pinpoint the results you need, Embase supports you in your goal to make informed decisions.

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