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About: EMBASE

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Address

Elsevier
Radarweg 29,
1043 NX Amsterdam

URL

http://www.elsevier.com

Contact Email

Ann-Marie Roche: a.roche@elsevier.com

Contact Tel

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Subjects

  • Science
  • Medicine

Platforms

Summary

Biomedical research and clinical practice with a special focus on all aspects of drug discovery and development

Inclusion Policy

Since 2002 EMBASE has had a cover-to-cover policy: all articles (apart from book reviews and obituaries) are covered.
Before 2002 this policy applied to most titles (>90%), but some were covered selectively for drugs information only.

Geographical Coverage

  • US / Canada: 31%
  • Europe: 54%
  • Australasia: 10%
  • Rest of World: 5%

Gap Fill Policy

Gaps due to missing issues are actively filled: missing issues are claimed from journals publishers and added to the database as soon as they are received.

Not filled are:
- gaps due to journals not being covered from vol 1 iss 1.
- gaps that occur for a few journals which were not covered during a certain period of their existence.

Archive Policy

We do not aim to cover all journals back to vol 1 iss 1.
For many journals, coverage was begun when they had already been in existence for some years. In such cases the back years are not indexed.

Embargo Rules

None.

Update Frequency

All vendors receive daily update files, which are also loaded on a daily basis.

Content Classification

All articles are classified according to the EMBASE Subject Classification system.
Journals are classified according to a Journal Classification system that is not part of the database record, but is available on request.

Keywords and Indexes

All EMBASE records are indexed using Elsevier's Life Science thesaurus EMTREE.

Authority Files

There is an authority file for controlling Manufacturer Names

Citation Linking

Citations are not part of EMBASE, although for each record the number of citations ("references") is indexed.

Full Text Linking

This is dependent on the vendor platform used.

Other Information

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