BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES

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

 

External link  Embase

Embase is the most comprehensive online source of biomedical answers. It helps you in:

  • Tracking drug adverse events
  • Comparing drug therapies for disease
  • Evidence Based Medicine research

With over 20 million records from more than 7,000 active authoritative journals, with Embase your research needs will be fully met. Embase is supported by our unique life science thesaurus Emtree. Comprehensive and polyhierarchically structured, Emtree provides a consistent description of all biomedical terminology, allowing unrivaled drug and disease indexing and retrieval.

Embase is available via External link  www.embase.com and via our authorized partners.

 

External link  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

 

External link  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

 

External link  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.

 

 

External link  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.

 

 

External link  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.

 

 

 
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