SUWECO roadshow EMBASE May 07

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SUWECO – Elsevier road show 9-11 May, 2007 Presenter: Sandra Grijzenhout, Product Sales Manager The Power of MEDLINE + EMBASE combined

Today’s focus:: 

Today’s focus: 1) Content of EMBASE & Medline combined 2) Indexing: EMTREE – The Thesaurus empowering all searches on EMBASE.com 3) Different search forms

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EMBASE scope includes in-depth coverage of drug research (pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology), with additional emphasis on basic biological and human research, health policy and management, biotechnology and biomedical engineering MEDLINE strengths are in Allied Health, (Nursing, Dentistry, Veterinary medicine) and clinical medicine Comprehensive coverage when combined! 1) Content on EMBASE.com (www.embase.com)

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MEDLINE only + 1,957 unique titles EMBASE only 1,962 unique titles Overlap 3,000 titles Overlapping journals in EMBASE still get unique EMTREE indexing! Total EMBASE journals: >5000 titles from 70+ countries Total MEDLINE journals: <5000 titles from 70+ countries EMBASE and MEDLINE Journal Overlap

EMBASE.com home / WWW.EMBASE.COM: 

EMBASE.com home / WWW.EMBASE.COM

What is EMBASE.com?: 

What is EMBASE.com? EMBASE.com is an abstracts & indexing database covering Biomedical & Pharmacological information. This abstracts database is renown for its coverage of disease and drug-related literature. >18 million records coming from >7,000 jrnls: 11 million+ EMBASE records (1974 – present) 7 million+ unique MEDLINE records (1966 – present) Daily updates; over 2,000 records added daily which results in more than 600,000 records added annually Comprehensive international coverage Searches empowered by the EMTREE Thesaurus

2) What is Indexing?: 

2) What is Indexing? Indexing is the process of adding indexing terms to each record Indexing is done on basis of the FULL TEXT of the article Each article is read by subject specialists who assign index terms in a structured and consistent way An index term is assigned with one of two weightings: major or mentioned Indexing greatly enhances the searchability of a database

EMTREE : 

EMTREE EMTREE is Elsevier’s Life Science Thesaurus. It is a hierarchically structured, controlled vocabulary, for Biomedicine and related Life Sciences. The indexers have a comprehensive vocabulary to describe the content For the users EMTREE facilitates comprehensive searching and high precision retrieval. Used since 1974 and unrivalled in its coverage of drug and medical terminology

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All MeSH terms are incorporated in EMTREE EMTREE excels in drug and pharmaceutical terms and synonyms: 25,473 EMTREE descriptors/preferred terms are drug related 137,000 EMTREE synonyms are drug related EMBASE and MEDLINE EMBASE and MEDLINE Indexing and Thesauri

Finding the EMTREE Term: 

Finding the EMTREE Term

Another example: 

Another example

Online demo: 

Online demo

WHY EMBASE.com?: 

WHY EMBASE.com? Your end users will get to relevant information FAST You allow your end users to stay ahead in the field as the coverage is GLOBAL ALL END USERS will have access: a subscription is based on the IP-ranges of your institute Your end users will SAVE TIME as they perform one search in EMBASE and MEDLINE By one click, the end user will be able to retrieve the FULL TEXT The EMBASE Thesaurus, EMTREE, will return relevant results

www.info.embase.com: 

www.info.embase.com

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For any questions or to apply for a free 30-day trial please contact Sandra Grijzenhout at s.grijzenhout@elsevier.com or contact SUWECO Sign up today for an online demo!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!: 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!