The Essential Embase Guide

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The Essential Embase Guide
Updated September 2009
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Content

• INTRODUCTION
• Welcome 8-16
• Sample Record (Full) 17-19
• GETTING STARTED
• Log In 20-21
• Home/Quick Search 22-23
• Context Sensitive Help 24
• Session Results 25
• Search Results 26-27
• Print Options 28
• Export Format Options 29
• Data Analysis Tool 30

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Content

• SEARCHING
• Advanced Search 31-32
• Field Search 33-34
• Drug Search 35-38
• Disease Search 39-41
• Article Search 42-43
• Search Syntax 44-45
• Query Building 46-48
• Viewing and Managing Search and Session Results
  49-66
• Hints for Refining 67-69

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Content

• Emtree KEYWORDS
• What Are They? 70
• Finding a Term 71-79
• Scope Note 80
• Browse by Facet 81-85
• Browse A-Z 86-87
• Conventions and Policies 88-89
• Emtree Spell Check 90-93

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Content

• JOURNALS
• Browsing 94-101
• By Topic 102-103
• Publisher Info 104-106
• AUTHORS
• How to Find Them in Embase 107-112

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Content

• ADDITIONAL FEATURES
• Email Alerts 113-116
• CAS Registry Numbers 117-118
• Molecular Sequence Numbers 119-120
• Author Email Links 121
• Full-Text Links 122-125
• Related Articles 126-127
• Searching on Scirus 128-129

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Content

• ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT and SUPPORT
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Objectives

• Understand scope content of Embase, including
  integration of unique Medline content
• Understand why and when to use all of the various
  Search modules Basic, Advanced, Field, Disease,
  Drug Author Search
• Learn how to build, edit and manage search
  queries and records
• Be able to navigate the Emtree subject thesaurus
  and use it as an effective search tool
• Comfortably browse the Embase journal collection
  to locate desired content quickly
• Know how to use additional functionality
  Full-text article linking, molecular sequence
  number links, CAS Registry numbers and Scirus web
  engine portal, etc.

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What is Embase?

• Embase is the most comprehensive and
  authoritative online source of biomedical
  answers.
• With Embase
• You are guided to the most comprehensive and
  relevant results from the drug and drug related
  literature
• Areas related to your research are intuitively
  laid out, enabling new discovery, informed
  decision making and the tracking of drugs through
  the literature
• You can find specific drug and disease
  information without having to read full text

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Facts and Figures

• Comprehensive, timely access to pharmacological,
  biomedical literature
• Over 20 million Embase and Medline records
  duplicate citations minimized 1966 to present
• Daily updates over 2,000 records added daily
• 850,000 records added annually
• 7,000 active, peer-reviewed journals from 70
  countries indexed

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Key Features

• Full Embase content plus unique Medline records
• Most current version of Embase records online in
  10 days
• Emtree terms mapped across all records
• Extensive Drug indexing
• Links to external full-text journal article
  collections
• Internal links from records to author names,
  Emtree terms, email addresses

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Comprehensive Coverage

• Drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics,
  pharmacy, toxicology
• Human medicine (clinical and experimental)
• Basic biology relevant to human medicine
• Health policy, management and pharmacoeconomics
• Public, occupational and environmental health
• Substance dependence and abuse

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Comprehensive Coverage

• Psychiatry
• Rehabilitation and physical therapy
• Forensic medicine
• Alternative medicine
• Biomedical engineering, instrumentation and
  medical devices
• Biotechnology
• Alternatives to animal experiments

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Comprehensive Coverage

• Also covered
• Nursing
• Dentistry
• Veterinary science
• Psychology

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Publication Types

• Article
• Conference paper
• Editorial
• Erratum
• Letter
• Note
• Review
• Short survey
• Article in Press
• As of November 2009 conference abstract

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Sample Record (Full Record)
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Sample Record (Full Continued)
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Sample Record (Full Continued)
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Getting Started Log In
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Getting Started Log In
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Getting Started Home/Quick Search
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Getting Started Quick Search
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Context-Sensitive Help
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Session Results Query Display
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Search Results Records Retrieved
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Open/Close Search Results
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Print Format Options
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Export Format Options
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Data Analysis Tool
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Searching Advanced Search
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Advanced Search More Limits
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Searching Field Search
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Field Search Look-Up Tables
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Drug Search
Use Boolean operators to combine subheadings for
greater specificity and precision.
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Drug Search More Limits
Consider limits for Evidence Based Medicine study
types.
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Drug Links Subheadings 1988

• AE Adverse drug reaction IT Drug interaction
• CT Clinical trial DT Drug therapy
• AD Drug administration TO Drug toxicity
• AN Drug analysis EC Endogenous compound
• CB Drug combination PR Pharmaceutics
• CM Drug comparison PE Pharmacoeconomics
  
• CR Drug concentration PK Pharmacokinetic
• DV Drug development PD Pharmacology
• DO Drug dose

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Routes of Drug Administration (2000)

• 47 routes added in 2000
• Indexed whether or not the administration route
  is emphasized in the article
• If route is significant, appropriate route link
  plus AD (drug administration) link is applied to
  drug name
• Can appear with major or minor terms

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Disease Search
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Disease Search More Limits
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Disease Links Subheadings 1988

• CO Complication ET Etiology
• CN Congenital disorder PC Prevention
• DI Diagnosis RT Radiotherapy
• DM Disease management RH Rehabilitation
• DR Drug resistance SI Side effect
• DT Drug therapy SU Surgery
• EP Epidemiology TH Therapy

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Article Search
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Article Search Results
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Search Syntax

• Phrase searching
• heart infarction exact phrase
• heart-infarction
• heart infarction heart AND infarction
• Proximity searching
• heart ventricle exact phrase
• heart-ventricle
• heart 1 ventricle within 1 word (heart
  ventricle, heart left ventricle)

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Search Syntax

• Wildcards (Truncation)
• variable number sulur sulfur,
  sulphur of characters cat cat, cats,
  catatonic
• catastrophe
• fixed number of ? sulf?nyl sulfonyl,
  sulfinyl
• characters catheter? catheter, catheters
• (but not catheterization)
• Boolean operators
• AND OR NOT

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Query Building Simple Combine
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Query Building Simple Combine
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Query Building Advanced Combine
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Session Results Managing Queries
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Edit a Search
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Edit a Search
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Delete a Search Query
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Save a Search
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Save a Search Create a New Folder
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Named Save Search
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Save a Search Search Confirmed
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Saved Searches Revisit a Search
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Rerun a Named Search with
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Share Saved Searches
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Session Results Managing Records
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Add Records to Clipboard
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View Clipboard Contents
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Save Clipboard Contents
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Clipboard Saved Confirmed
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View Saved Clipboards
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View Contents of Saved Clipboards
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Too Many Citations

• Instead of explosions, try specific descriptors
• Turn off extensive search
• Use quotes or hyphens to search phrases
• Use link subheadings in Disease / Drug Search
• Qualify free-text to specific fields (e.g.
  title)
• Human subjects
• Recent publication years

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Too Many Citations

• English or other languages
• Priority journals, online abstracts
• Review articles
• Evidence-based studies
• Exclude smaller item types
• Major concepts
• Sort records by relevance

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Not Enough Citations

• Instead of specific index terms, explode broader
  term(s)
• Related Articles button
• Make sure extensive search is on
• Combine terms with AND, rather than subheadings
• Search all fields instead of specific fields
• Search free text scan titles and/or abstracts
  for appropriate descriptors

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Emtree

• Emtree The Life Science Thesaurus Subject
  indexing for Embase
• Controlled vocabulary arranged in hierarchical
  tree
• 56,490 index terms (descriptors) 230,000
  synonyms
• Explode to retrieve narrower terms
• Updated annually
• Definitions from Dorlands Illustrated Medical
  Dictionary
• Scope notes for check tags

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Emtree Tool Find Term
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Emtree Tool Permuted Word List
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Emtree Tool Tree Structure
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Emtree Tool Get Results
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Emtree Tool More Term Info
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Emtree Tool Search Term Options
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Emtree Tool Add to Search Form
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Emtree Tool Building Up Queries
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Emtree Tool Adding to Advanced Search Form
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Find Term Emtree Scope Note
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Emtree Tool Browse by Facet
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Browse through Trees
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Browse through Trees
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Browse through Trees
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Browse through Trees
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Emtree Tool Browse A-Z
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Emtree Tool Browse A-Z
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Emtree Syntax Conventions

• Natural terminology and word order
• Singular forms
• Noun, rather than adjectival, forms
• American spelling, rather than British
• English terms preferred over Latin
• INN generic names for drugs
• Greek letters spelled out
• Avoid acronyms and abbreviations
• Punctuation seldom used
• Radioisotopes as suffixes

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Embase Indexing Policies

• Number of terms
• Major terms
• Drug and medical subject terms

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Emtree Spell Check
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Emtree Spell Check
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Emtree Spell Check
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Emtree Spell Check
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Journals Browse Journals
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Browse Volumes and Issues
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Browse Journals Create Article List
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Search within Volume/Issue
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Search within Volume/Issue
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Search within Volume/Issue
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Browse Journals
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Browse Journals
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Journals by Topic
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Journals by Topic
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Journals Publisher Info
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Journals Publisher Info
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Publisher Info
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Authors
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Authors
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Authors
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Authors Search within Record
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Authors Field Search
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Authors Command Line Searching
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Additional Features Email Alerts
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Email Alerts Confirm Alerts
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Email Alerts Manage Alerts
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Email Alerts Delete Alerts
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CAS Registry Number Links
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CAS Registry Number Links
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Molecular Sequence Links
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Molecular Sequence Links
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Author Email Links
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Full Text via External Publishers

• Full article text available online from
• ScienceDirect including Cell Press (Elsevier)
• SpringerLink
• Karger Online Journals
• Thieme
• CatchWord
• Ingenta Select
• CrossRef links to hundreds of content providers
  (DOI)
• Access to full text depends on terms of
  institutions subscription(s) with publishers
  may be additional costs

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Full Text via External Publishers
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Full Text via External Publishers
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Full Text via External Publishers
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Related Articles
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Related Articles
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Searching the Web via Scirus
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Searching the Web via Scirus
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Account Management and Support
Manage user information, see subscription
details, change password Extensive,
context-sensitive help
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www.info.embase.com

• Product info
• Press releases
• Documentation
• Online training
• Search hints
• FAQs
• and more

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Marketing and Support

• North America
• Elsevier E-Helpdesk
• 360 Park Avenue South
• New York, NY 10010-1710
• USA
• Telephone [phone] (toll-free)
• 1-212-462-1978
• Fax [phone]
• Email usembaseinfo_at_elsevier.com

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Marketing and Support

• Latin America
• Elsevier E-Helpdesk
• Rua Sete de Setembro, 111/16 Andar Rio de
  Janeiro - RJ - 20050-006 - BRAZIL
• Telephone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Email brembaseinfo_at_elsevier.com

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Marketing and Support

• Europe, Middle East and Africa
• Elsevier E-Helpdesk
• P.O. Box 211
• 1000 AE Amsterdam
• THE NETHERLANDS
• Telephone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Email baseinfo_at_elsevier.com

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Marketing and Support

• Japan
• Elsevier E-Helpdesk
• 1-9-15 Higashi-AzabuMinato-kuTokyo 106-0044
  JAPAN
• Telephone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Email jpembaseinfo_at_elsevier.com

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Marketing and Support

• Asia and Australasia
• Elsevier E-Helpdesk
• 3 Killiney Road 08-01Winsland House 1SINGAPORE
  239519
• Telephone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Email sgembaseinfo_at_elsevier.com

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Thank you!Any closing questions?