EMCare
Imprint: ELSEVIER
Description
EMCare is a new bibliographic database built by the producer of EMBASE, a sister company of Mosby and W.B. Saunders, two of the most prominent and trusted names in healthcare publishing. EMCare is drawn from more than 2,700 international source titles and includes close to 2 million records from the nursing, allied health and biomedical literature.
Why subscribe to EMCare?
Competitively priced, EMCare is an affordable alternative to other nursing and allied health databases.
Content
EMCare provides cover-to-cover indexing of more than 2,700 international source titles including peer-reviewed journals, trade publications and electronic-only titles. It currently features a 10-year backfile and will add more than 200,000 new records each year.
Coverage includes:
- Evidence-based healthcare
- All nursing specialties and professions
- Nursing education and training
- Nursing development and management
- Health and health care economics
- Midwifery
- Clinical, medical and healthcare social work
- Psychiatry and mental health
- Traumatology, emergency and critical care medicine
- Biomedicine
- Dental hygiene, nutrition and dietetics
- Physical therapy
- Surgical technology
Powerful Thesaurus for Precision Searching
EMTREE: Elsevier's Life Science Thesaurus has been significantly expanded with close to 1,500 nursing terms in addition to existing allied health terms. Sophisticated searches can be constructed with minimum effort - while achieving maximum results. EMCare's precise indexing guarantees consistent retrieval of relevant records.
- Thesaurus tools supporting basic and advanced searching
- Extensive list of synonyms as entry points
- Explosion searches facilitating hierarchical searches in all facets
Availability
EMCare is updated weekly and currently available via Dialog and Dialog DataStar.
For further information, please contact EMCare at EMCare@elsevier.com
Bibliographic details
Database/Service
Imprint: ELSEVIER
Last updated: 13 Jun 2013
