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A major biomedical and pharmaceutical database well known for its international scope and timely, in-depth indexing.

EMBASE from Elsevier B.V. is a comprehensive pharmacological and biomedical database renowned for extensive indexing of drug information from 4,550 journals published in 70 countries. It is one of the most current biomedical databases available. Fully-indexed citations and complete author abstracts appear on average twenty days after receipt of the journal -- most appear earlier. Each record contains the full bibliographic citation, indexing terms and codes. More than 80% of the records contain abstracts. The database includes EMTREE, a hierarchically ordered controlled thesaurus, which contains 46,000 preferred terms and more than 200,000 synonyms. Specialty subsets of EMBASE are also available.

• Advanced Ovid Mapping analyzes users' natural language queries and suggests appropriate terms for searching
• Extensive Vocabulary Features include Graphical EMTREE Thesaurus with Scope Notes, Multiple Tree Structures, Subheadings, Explode Capability, Major/Minor distinctions, and Permuted Index.

Product Description	Updated	Access	Status	Platform
Embase 1980-date	Weekly	Internet	Released	Ovid
Embase Front File (1988-Date)	Weekly	Internet	Released	Ovid

• Medline (1950-Date)
• Evidence Based Medicine Reviews
• PsycINFO
• Circulation
• Neurology
• Stroke
• Anesthesia & Analgesia
• International Pharmaceutical Abstracts
• AMED - Allied and Complementary Medicine Database
• Critical Care Medicine