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- 1. Welcome to our Embase webinar! Embase for biomedical searching: An introduction Your host: Chris Flemming Your presenter: Ann-Marie Roche
- 2. About us
- 3. Need to know • Webinar control panel: • ‘chat’ or ‘ask a question’ for questions and comments • Option for full screen view • Q&A after presentation
- 4. What is Embase Embase is the world’s most comprehensive, intelligent biomedical research tool, providing the drug and drug-related research community with reliable and authoritative content, to advance new biomedical and pharmaceutical discovery. Confidence Find all relevant articles that may not otherwise be found by alternative databases Deep biomedical indexing All relevant, up-to-date, biomedical information from the research literature Precise retrieval Deep and focused research through powerful retrieval tools 4
- 5. CONFIDENCE 5
- 6. Content overview Emtree: Biomedical thesaurus, over 60k terms 1947 1950 1974 2009 Embase: Fully indexed: Over 7,700 journals (including MEDLINE), 1950- MEDLINE: 2,500 journals unique to Embase, mapped to Embase indexing, 1950- (including MEDLINE Classic) Embase Classic: AIP and In Process: Digitally scanned and Indexing added, from 2009 re-indexed, 1947-1973 Conference Abstracts: Indexing added, from 2009
- 7. Embase scope “Other” includes traditional MEDLINE topics: dentistry, veterinary science, nursing Embase covers all of Embase plus MEDLINE (just the core drug & clinical areas are highlighted here)
- 8. Total growth (including MEDLINE and conference data) Total Embase growth (2007 - 2011) Prognosis 1,200,000 Conference-abstracts MEDLINE-unique 1,000,000 "Embase" 800,000 600,000 400,000 200,000 0 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Publication years
- 9. Conference Abstracts • Coverage began in 2009. • Check http://embase.com/info /what-is- embase/coverage for the most up to date list of conference abstracts and conferences covered. 9
- 10. DEEP INDEXING 10
- 11. Deep indexing - Emtree 60K terms (>260,000 synonyms) and all MeSH terms 29K drug and chemical terms Updated 3 times a year (back-posting each time) All drug generic names described by What is FDA and EMA, all mapping? International Non- Mapping means Proprietary Names that searchers get (INNs) described by the same results WHO from 2000. regardless of which term they use, e.g. Vioxx (synonym) or rofecoxib (the preferred term).
- 12. Deep indexing - Emtree 14 study types, including NEW Diagnostic Test Accuracy Study 78 drug and disease subheadings
- 14. Start searching… Find the best terms for your search and include synonyms automatically with autocomplete in Quick Search
- 15. Click on Disease Filter for example, to see which diseases are referenced with Januvia, either as a therapeutic area or side effect.
- 16. Find deep drug and disease relationships without having to consult the full text.
- 17. Poll The poll should appear on your screen shortly...
- 18. Let’s take a look at Embase... …by going to www.embase.com
- 20. • Q&A will be sent to you by email. • For more information and questions please contact [email protected] • Our next Embase webinar is scheduled for March 21st and will focus on building search strategies. • Go to www.trainingdesk.elsevier.com/embase for all training related materials Please fill out the survey that appears on you screen after leaving the webinar.
Editor's Notes
- #7: Content is key/backbone for Embase(Over 360k conference abstracts)Continue to focus to building up content but also on enhancing functionality and indexing/quality.Possible question: Which content sources would you most like to see in Embase?Unpublished conference abstractsProprietary literatureUnique Scopus contentb.c.
- #10: Unique features:Every conference is summarized by a searchable review recordAll conference abstract records include searchable online abstractsAll conference abstracts & reviews are indexed with EmtreeConference name, date and location are searchable450K conferences