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Embase® is a registered trademark of Elsevier BV.
Welcome to our Embase
introduction webinar!
Your presenter: Sherry Winter

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DISCOVERY PRE-CLINICAL CLINICAL POST-LAUNCH
A SUITE OF INTEROPERABLE, DOMAIN-SPECIFIC, DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS
EMBASE IS PART OF OUR LIFE SCIENCE SOLUTIONS
Characterize
targets & analyze
disease pathways
Characterize & discover
molecules
Identify & confirm lead
compounds
Translate preclinical
data in humans
(Translational)
Monitor drug
adverse events &
real-world evidence
data in literature
Integrate the world of
data & solutions
Drug Candidate
Selection
Go-No Go Decision
Preclinical Data
Validation
Managing risk
Text Mining &
Data Integration
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• Q&A at the end
NEED TO KNOW

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WHY DO PEOPLE USE EMBASE?
Pharma Devices Academia
Track
literature
Aggregate
evidence
Postmarket
Surveil.
(PV)
Compet.
Intel.
Clinical
Evaluation
Systematic
Review

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DELIVERING VALUE TO YOUR BIOMEDICAL SEARCHES
Conference
proceedings
Very powerful
Search Environment
...by including literature and
information resources in a
timely manner
...by reading full-text to
identify drugs, diseases,
adverse affects, clinical
trials, drug trade names etc.
...by enabling advanced search
filters to drill down a
comprehensive search to a
relevant and manageable record
set
Scientific
Journals
In Press
(unpublished)
...by allowing users to automate
searching and result management
E-mail Alerting API Interoperability
Deep indexing using own taxonomy
(EMTREE)
We make sure you
don’t miss any
biomedical literature
The only close
alternative is
reading
all the articles
Good precision and
recall balance
Automation and
documentation

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WE MAKE SURE YOU DON’T
MISS ANY BIOMEDICAL
LITERATURE

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CONTENT OVERVIEW
Emtree: Biomedical thesaurus, over 69k terms
Embase: Fully indexed: Over 8,400 journals (including MEDLINE), 1950-
MEDLINE: 2,500 journals: MeSH terms are mapped to Embase
indexing, 1950- (including MEDLINE Classic)
Embase Classic:
Digitally scanned and
re-indexed, 1947-1973
AIP and In Process:
Indexing added, from 2009
Conference Abstracts:
Indexing added, from 2009
1947 1950 1974 2009
Including
>6M not
found in
MEDLINE

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BIOMEDICAL SCOPE AND COVERAGE
EXTENSIVE COVERAGE OF PEER-REVIEWED BIOMEDICAL LITERATURE
Pharmacology & Toxicology 12%
General Clinical Medicine 11%
Genetics, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology 10%
Neurology & Behavioral Medicine 8%
Microbiology & Infectious Disease 7%
Cardiology & Hematology 6%
Psychiatry & Mental Health 6%
Oncology 5%
Healthcare Policy & Management 4%
Allergy & Immunology 4%
Pediatrics 4%
Endocrinology & Metabolism 3%
Obstetrics & Gynecology 3%
Biomedical Engineering & Medical Devices 3%
Anesthesiology & Intensive Care 3%
Gastroenterology 2%
Respiratory Medicine 2%
Nephrology & Urology 2%
Dermatology 2%
Other topics 28%
Including public health, basic biomedical
science and topics included from MEDLINE

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CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS
Coverage began in 2009.
Click here for an up to date list (http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/embase/about )

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DEEP INDEXING

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EMBASE INDEXING COMPARED TO MEDLINE

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PRECISE RETRIEVAL

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START SEARCHING…
Find the best terms for your search and include synonyms automatically with
autocomplete in Quick Search

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EASY-TO-USE FILTERS
FOCUS SEARCH TO RELEVANT AND MANAGEABLE PROPORTIONS
Click on Drug Filter for
example, to see which drugs
are referenced in your search.

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EASY TO MANAGE RESULTS
WITH EMAIL ALERTS, EXPORTING AND ADVANCE SEARCHING
Register to set up email alerts
to automatically receive new
search results (frequencies
range from daily to yearly)
Copy the search query to
Advanced Search to apply
additional limits
Export, print or share results –
choose from formats including
RIS, text or CSV

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SEARCHING IN
EMBASE FOR RESULTS

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a. Building systematic searches
b. Pinpointing specific drug and disease-related information
c. Saving searches and setting up alerts
POLL: WHAT ARE YOU MOST INTERESTED IN?

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Meet Carol, a clinical liaison
librarian, in the Center for
Evidence-Based Research. Carol is
working on a systematic review
for publication and she needs to
adhere to specific guidelines to
ensure she has conducted a
through search of the literature.
Let’s dive into EMBASE and show
Carol how she may efficiently
search all relevant biomedical
literature, while being confident
that she is not missing anything.

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Meet Carol, an information
specialist supporting
pharmacovigilence. Carol needs
to ensure that she is setting up
searches across all relevant
sources, to track all adverse
events for 3 of their products on
the market. There is so much info
to track and she has to be
confident when reporting that
she has not missed anything.
Let’s dive in to EMBASE and see
how Carol may quickly review all
side effects for her drugs, while
being confident that she is not
missing anything

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ARE YOU MISSING SOMETHING?
2 thesaurus assisted
searches but different
results? Embase has
unique journal content
and conference
abstracts…

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ARE YOU MISSING SOMETHING?
We were looking for digoxin AND ‘antibiotics’ but MEDLINE does
NOT index digoxin in this article.

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• Use single quotes to capture a phrase ‘diabetes mellitus’ for example (not with
Autocomplete in Quick Search)
• Break up your search into individual searches, such as a drug search (in Drug
Search form) and a disease search (in Disease Search form) and combine your
results in Session Results
• Run your cursor over your search to Edit or copy to a Search Form for guided
editing
• Truncation and operators, AND, OR, NOT, NEXT, NEAR
BUILDING AND COMBINING SEARCHES
Refer to http://info.embase.com/helpfiles for more guidance
and links to materials such as the Quick User Guide.

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• Quick and Advanced Limits on Advanced, Drug and Disease Search forms
• Major Focus on all advanced forms – major drugs and diseases retrieved
• Field limits under Advanced Search box to search in specific fields such as article
title, abstract, conference name, drug name etc.
• Drug and Disease Subheadings to limit to specific concepts such as Adverse Drug
Reaction, Drug Comparison and Side Effect.
• Filters on Session Results page for specific diseases or study types for example
REFINING YOUR SEARCH
Check out our training videos at www.trainingdesk.elsevier.com/embase for
more guidance

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• Q&A will be sent to you by email and for more information and
questions please contact your regional office
• Our next Embase webinar is on Sept 24 and is focused on literature
searching for Medical Devices.
• From July 31, please go to Help for all Embase training materials and a
webinar overview
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