In addition to Scopus, the world’s most comprehensive all-science bibliographic database, Elsevier produces a range of specialist abstracting & indexing databases that offer in-depth coverage of specific subject disciplines supported by robust indexing and thesauri. Covering international, peer-reviewed literature, these databases provide useful information for your own research as well as supporting journal editorial tasks including:

• Monitoring hot topics

• Researching retrospective literature

• Identifying potential editorial board members and reviewers

• Reviewing a potential contributing author’s body of work

• Verifying references

These databases cover topics including healthcare, biological sciences, and engineering.

Biomedicine, Pharmaceutics, Biotechnology & Healthcare

 EMBASE.com

EMBASE.com is the premier biomedical and pharmacological bibliographic literature search platform that searches EMBASE and MEDLINE simultaneously. Updated daily, it contains over 18 million indexed bibliographic records with abstracts. The file covers more than 7,000 journal titles published in 70 countries (close to 2,000 more titles than EMBASE or MEDLINE alone), including non-English language articles, and features extensive linking to full text, gene and protein sequence databases and PubChem.

 EMBASE

Available via most online vendors, EMBASE is a biomedical and pharmacological database that provides access to the most up-to-date information about medical and drug-related subjects. It contains over 11 million records from 1974 to present, with 600,000+ citations and abstracts added annually.

 EMCare

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. It provides critical resources, for nurses, allied health professionals and students.

Biological Sciences

 EMBiology

Culled from close to 3,000 international titles and extending back to 1980, EMBiology indexes more than 4 million records from the biological science literature, covering both laboratory and field science.

Elsevier BIOBASE

Elsevier BIOBASE is a bibliographic current awareness database providing comprehensive coverage of the entire spectrum of biological research worldwide. Using a unique, comprehensive classification scheme, it contains close to 2 million records from 1994 to the present.

Engineering & Technology

 Compendex™

With over 10 million records from more than 5,600 scholarly journals, trade magazines and conference proceedings, Compendex is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary literature database available to engineers.

 Engineering Index Backfile

The Engineering Index Backfile (1884-1968) can be searched via index terms or a free text search in the abstracts. All volume years can be searched simultaneously, eliminating the need to scan multiple volumes. With these powerful search capabilities, the Engineering Index Backfile is more useful and more accessible than the print version ever was. Combined with the Compendex database, the Engineering Index Backfile provides the most comprehensive overview of the last 120 years of engineering literature.

 GeoBase®

GeoBase is a multidisciplinary database that deeply indexes research literature across the earth sciences including geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography and geomechanics. Spanning over 25 years (1980-present) of research literature, GeoBase addresses increasingly important environmental issues such as alternative energy sources, pollution, waste management and nature conservation.

FLUIDEX

This international bibliographic database provides comprehensive coverage of the scientific and technical literature dealing with fluids in civil and process engineering.