EMBASE'com

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The Power of MEDLINE EMBASE combined

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Why do customers need EMBASE?

MEDLINE 5,000 titles, 2,000 unique
EMBASE 5,000 titles, 2,000 unique
Overlap 3,000 titles
Overlapping journals in EMBASE still get unique
EMTREE indexing!
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Pubmed and EMBASE.com
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Pubmed and EMBASE.com
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Pubmed and EMBASE.com
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• End users may easily build up drug and disease
  searches in EMBASE.com using the many biomedical
  limits provided
• Users may first search EMTREE for guidance
• EMBASE and Medline are combined on one platform
  (deduplicated), therefore one search
• EMBASE.com offers the complete file back to 1974
  (not on Ovid)

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Developments 2008

• For 2008 the main projects will be
• Migration to a new search engine
• New content EMBASE Classic

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EMBASE Classic

• Fully digitized 27-year back file from 43
  Excerpta Medica Abstract Journals (print
  versions).
• Approximately 1.8 million records from the
  biomedical and pharmacological literature
• Coverage of over 3,400 international journal
  titles
• Thesaurus control using EMTREE
• Historic medical terms identified and mapped to
  the current EMTREE

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Remember

• May be used by information specialists end
  users
• Focus on drugs (coverage indexing)
• High coverage of European literature and 2,000
  unique journals (in EMBASE)
• Search EMBASE MEDLINE without duplicates
  through one thesaurus
• EMBASE Classic available on EMBASE.com this year

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Value of EMBASE.com over PubMed

• Especially when doing drug searches you might
  find articles in EMBASE.com that you wont find
  in PubMed.
• Even though these articles sometimes are in
  PubMed!
• But due to EMBASE unique coverage of 1,800
  journals, it also contains a lot of unique
  material.

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EMBASE.com value over PubMed

• Neurocrine Biosciences has a new compound in
  development, Tiplimotide, for potential
  intravenous treatment of multiple sclerosis.
• By April 2005, enrollment for phase II trials was
  complete, with results expected early in 2006
• This potential new drug was added last year to
  EMBASE thesaurus EMTREE.
• It is not yet in MEDLINEs thesaurus Mesh.

Lets see what we find when we search EMBASE with
the term Tiplimotide
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Tiplimotide is part of EMTREE, the EMBASE
thesaurus and 11 search results can be found in
EMBASE for this term. What happens when we do the
same search in PubMed?
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The term tiplimotide was not found in Mesh,
Medlines thesaurus
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which means that no results can be found when
searching PubMed with this term! In fact of the
11 records found in EMBASE, 9 are also in MEDLINE
but can not be found!
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The drug Tiplimotide is not in MeSH. No results
can be found when searching MEDLINE with this
term. However, some of the records that we find
in EMBASE for this drug are actually in MEDLINE
(see next slide)! This demonstrates that you can
find articles in EMBASE that you can not find in
MEDLINE due to the superior indexing of drugs!
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This is one of the 11 records that we found in
EMBASE when we searched for Tiplimotide Here you
see that it is also in MEDLINE but can not be
found because it has not been indexed with this
term!
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Support

• www.searchtipsforum.com
• FAQs
• www.info.embase.com
• Training desk
• Monthly online classes
• Customised searches
• Support with face to face classes
• Collaboration at exhibitions and conferences

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