Who can access Embase?

For individuals, small and medium size businesses. Excludes contract research organizations and consultancies.

How can I get access to Embase?

The best way to access all databases is to go via the Medical Library website: https://library.medschl.cam.ac.uk/research-support/databases/ and then select what you want – either Medline or Embase.

Is Embase free to use?

What is Embase? Online version of Index Medicus produced by the US National Library of Medicine (NLM). Freely available on the Internet.

Does Embase require subscription?

Embase is a subscription database from Elsevier that provides biomedicine literature. Embase is provided by Elsevier and includes literature in the MEDLINE database from the National Library of Medicine, in addition to almost 3,000 other journals and over 11,500 conferences.

What is the difference between PubMed and Embase?

PubMed is freely available to the world. Embase is a propriety database from Elsevier that UCSF Library has access to. Embase has a more intuitive interface making it easy to search. A comprehensive biomedical search would search in both databases.

How to search Medline and EMBASE using Ovid

Should I use Embase or MEDLINE?

Embase is a completely separate database to PubMed and MEDLINE, but it does contain all of the articles that can be found in MEDLINE. It also contains over 7 million records that cannot be accessed via MEDLINE/PubMed.

Is Embase better than MEDLINE?

Embase includes all of MEDLINE's citations plus many more. However, if you have already searched MEDLINE, it is easy to see only the citations that are exclusive to Embase.

Is Embase a good database?

Embase is the medical research database for high-quality, comprehensive evidence. Regulators around the world recognize Embase as a source for medical literature. Life science experts rely on Embase to find relevant and current results based on Emtree indexing of full-text content and dedicated search terms.

Are Embase and MEDLINE the same?

Database overlap

Although MEDLINE and EMBASE searches tend not to identify the same sets of references, they have been found to return similar numbers of relevant references.

Is Embase the same as ScienceDirect?

Embase and ScienceDirect are both reputable databases in the field of scientific literature, but they have some key differences in terms of content and focus. Content Coverage: Embase is known for its strong coverage of pharmaceutical, biomedical, and drug-related literature.

How do I create an Embase account?

Why choose Embase database?

You can use Embase.com to search 8,500 journals from over 95 countries: this includes MEDLINE content. There are approximately 3000 indexed journals unique to Embase. It also contains about 2.3 million conference abstracts indexed from more than 7,000 conferences dating from 2009.

What is the difference between Embase classic and Embase?

Following feedback from the EMBASE user community, EMBASE Classic was created as a separate database to supplement EMBASE as a backfile of medical journals from 1947-1973 which provides valuable documentation of drugs, adverse effects, endogenous compounds, etc. found at the time.

How to use Embase database?

A comprehensive search of Embase will include both controlled vocabulary (Emtree) and keyword terms. Boolean operators are used to combine search terms. In Embase, you can use the operators AND, OR, and NOT. Your search history is located on the search results page.

Is Embase and Elsevier same?

EMBASE (www.embase.com) is published by Elsevier Science. It is a European-oriented database with records from 1947 onwards on more than 22 million articles from more than 7600 scientific journals in pharmacology and medicine, including about 2000 journals not indexed in Medline.

Is PubMed free to the public?

PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally. The PubMed database contains more than 36 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature.

Is MEDLINE free?

Availability: Searching MEDLINE via PubMed results in a list of citations (including authors, title, source, and often an abstract) to journal articles and an indication of free electronic full-text availability. Searching is free of charge and does not require registration.

What are the benefits of using Embase?

An EMBASE searcher has the power- ful ability to use specific drug identifiers as well as brand and manufacturer names. The EMBASE record contains additional information about the drug in question that may be utilised for further searching in EMBASE.

Can you use Embase for systematic review?

Embase allows you to build comprehensive systematic reviews so that you can thoroughly review all of the published literature on a particular topic and make the best-informed evidence-based medicine decisions.

What is the difference between Ovid and Embase?

There is no notable difference between Ovid and Embase.com in terms of search results when searching Embase and Medline. However, Embase.com was rated as easier to use in several domains compared to Ovid.

What is the difference between PsycINFO and Embase?

PsycINFO contains literature on psychology from more than 2200 periodicals from 1872 to the present. It was previously known as PsycLIT. EMBASE is a biomedical and pharmaceutical database with more than 18 million records from 1974 to the present. It includes more European articles than MEDLINE does.

What type of database is Embase?

Embase (Excerpta Medica Database) is a biomedical and pharmacological database produced by Elsevier B.V., containing more than 40 million records including articles from more than 8,500 journals published world-wide.

Should I use PubMed or MEDLINE?

Tip: PubMed is a great interface for carrying out a basic scoping search, or if you wish to identify a limited number of key references. MEDLINE via Ovid is recommended if you wish to carry out a comprehensive, structured or systematic search.

What is the disadvantage of MEDLINE?

Medline cons: not as easy to use as Google Scholar. includes predominately journal literature; doesn't index the "gray" literature, book chapters, or many conference proceedings.

Why do people use MEDLINE?

Nearly 5,000 journals are read and their individual articles indexed and added to the MEDLINE database, which contains information about over 12 million journal articles. MEDLINE is a great resource for medical research because it is authoritative, peer-reviewed, and complete (as much as possible, anyway).