Embase®

Improve your biomedical research with the world’s most comprehensive biomedical literature database

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Embase®

Improve your biomedical research with the world’s most comprehensive biomedical literature database

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Get the essential biomedical research you need quickly and accurately

Developing pharmaceuticals and performing pharmacovigilance requires a wide array of comprehensive, evidence-based medicine, drug and medical device efficacy studies.

Embase is a highly versatile, multipurpose and up-to-date biomedical database. It covers the most important international biomedical literature from 1947 to the present day and all articles are indexed in depth using Elsevier's Life Science thesaurus Embase Indexing and Emtree®. The entire database is also conveniently available on multiple platforms.

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With Embase, you can search and access:

  • Journal coverage from 1947 to the present
  • Over 32 million records, including MEDLINE titles
  • Over 8,500 journals from over 95 countries, including MEDLINE titles
  • Over 2,900 indexed journals unique to Embase
  • Over 1.5 million records added yearly, with an average of over 6,000 each day
  • Over 2.3 million conference abstracts indexed from more than 7,000 conferences dating from 2009
  • Full-text indexing of drug, disease and medical device data

Recommended for your success

Embase is recommended by the following regulatory bodies and authorities for maintaining awareness of safety profiles and clinical and economic evidence:

  • European Medicines Agency (EMA) - Guideline on good pharmacovigilance practices (GVP) Module VI
  • European Commission - Guidance on the clinical evaluation of medical devices – MEDDEV 2.7.1 (rev. 4)
  • The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Guidelines
  • Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions Version 5.1.0

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For users looking for adverse drug events, drug efficacy studies, medical device and disease-related biomedical research information, Embase delivers immediate access to a range of intuitive search tools that help them find exact answers to their research questions quickly and easily.

  • Uncover drug-disease relationships and drug-drug interactions – Discover more biomedical evidence by searching comprehensive, relevant and up-to-date biomedical research
  • Monitor literature for adverse events more efficiently – Adverse events are much easier and faster to identify using the world's most comprehensive biomedical literature database

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  • Search > 32 million abstracts and indexes
  • Search > 2.3 million conference abstracts
  • Search using Emtree: > 75,000 preferred terms. 32,000 for drugs and chemicals and over 3,000 for medical devices
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  • Unlimited saved searches

 

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Prepare a single systematic review or assess a product’s safety and uniqueness.

  • One user
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  • Search > 32 million abstracts and indexes
  • Search > 2.3 million conference abstracts
  • Search using Emtree: > 75,000 preferred terms. 32,000 for drugs and chemicals and over 3,000 for medical devices
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  • Unlimited saved searches

 

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  • Multi-user access
  • Access to Embase.com
  • Search > 32 million abstracts and indexes
  • Search > 2.3 million conference abstracts
  • Search using Emtree: > 75,000 preferred terms. 32,000 for drugs and chemicals and over 3,000 for medical devices
  • Unlimited email alerts
  • Unlimited saved searches

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What our customers say

"Embase serves as an exhaustive knowledge resource that I and other researchers in multiple locations around the world can share. It lets us locate and annotate scientific data that is crucial for our research project communications and new scientific proposals." Avinash Permraj, research scientist at Management of Scientific Centers
"I use Embase when I want to be sure that I've checked all the scientific literature I can for information on a given drug. I mainly use it for drug-related searches because that's a key area of focus for my colleagues." Marialaura Martinico, a scientific documentalist working at various institutes

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