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EMBASE.com is a biomedical and pharmacological bibliographic database, which provides access to the most up-to-date citations and abstracts from biomedical and drug literature via EMBASE and Medline. It contains over 19 million indexed records from 7,000+ peer reviewed journals, covering 1947 to date, with more than 600,000 additions annually.
EMBASE is indexed using the Elsevier life science thesaurus, EMTREE and Medline records are mapped to EMBASE before adding to EMBASE.com.
It all began a long time ago.
| 1947: |
Excerpta Medica Abstract Journals launched. Initially 8 titles with an additional 7 in 1948 |
| 1968: |
Computerized processing of records introduced |
| 1974: |
EMBASE, the Excerpta Medica database, became available online via the major database vendors |
| 1988: |
EMTREE implemented |
| 1998: |
EMBASE reloaded following substantial data enrichment, including backposting EMTREE to 1974 and several newly indexed data field |
| 2000: |
EMBASE.com launched, incorporating data from MEDLINE as well as EMBASE |
| 2002: |
EMBASE.com is given a new interface and a new lease of life |
| 2007: |
EMBASE Classic, the EMBASE archive file from 1947 to 1973, launched |
| 2008: |
The new search engine for EMBASE.com is coming at the end of the year, look out for exciting new developments in the interface in 2009..... |
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What is EMBASE.com?
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