Amsterdam, 1 September 2006 - Elsevier Bibliographic Databases
announced today that EMCare, The Database for Healthcare Professionals, is
available via the Dialog and DataStar platforms. EMCare is the most recent
addition to Elsevier's portfolio of bibliographic databases, and with close to
2 million records from the nursing, allied health and biomedical literature is
a key information resource for professionals engaged at all levels of
healthcare, whether in patient care, scientific research or education.
Magdaleine Margaritis, Marketing Manager, Elsevier Bibliographic Databases,
stated, "We are very pleased that EMCare is joining the collection of
healthcare databases hosted on Thomson Scientific's Dialog and DataStar
platforms. EMCare is competitively priced and designed as an affordable
alternative to other allied healthcare and nursing databases. Its availability
on these services will expand the audience to which EMCare is accessible and
enable users to search EMCare simultaneously with other information sources.”
With cover-to-cover indexing of more than 2,700 international sources,
including peer-reviewed journals, trade publications and electronic-only
titles, EMCare includes unique content not found in other nursing and allied
health databases. As well as supporting the practice of evidence-based
treatment in hospitals and community healthcare settings, EMCare furnishes
timely access to new information that may lead to more cost-effective and
higher quality healthcare, and supports faculty and equips students with the
information they need to perform successfully as members of tomorrow’s
workforce.
EMCare’s comprehensive coverage includes evidence-based healthcare, all
nursing specialties and professions, nursing education and training, nursing
development and management, health and health care economics, midwifery,
psychiatry and mental health, traumatology, emergency and critical care
medicine, emergency services, dental hygiene, nutrition and dietetics,
physical therapy and surgical technology.
Currency is an important feature, with new records available online as quickly
as two weeks after print publication. The files on both Dialog [File 45] and
DataStar [EMCA] are updated weekly and feature a 10-year backfile. More than
200,000 new records are added each year.
EMCare's indexing supports consistent retrieval of relevant records across the
entire database. Underlying the indexing is EMTREE: Elsevier’s Life Science
Thesaurus, which has been significantly expanded with close to 1,500 nursing
terms in addition to existing allied health terms. Additional fields enable
searching for Molecular Sequence Numbers, and for both Trade Names and
Manufacturer Names of drugs and medical devices.
Additional information about EMCare is available on the Dialog Bluesheet at
http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/html/bl0045.html or DataStar
Datasheet at
http://ds.datastarweb.com/ds/products/datastar/sheets/emca.htm or
http://www.info.embase.com/emcare. 30-day free trials are available upon
request.
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in partnership with the global science and health communities, Elsevier's
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Media Contact:
Magdaleine Margaritis
Tel: +31 20 485
3091
m.margaritis@elsevier.com
