STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that its biomedical and pharmaceutical abstract and indexing database, EMBASE, has partnered with QUOSA. QUOSA is a specialist software company focused on supplying superior work-flow tools to STM professionals for reviewing and managing the scientific literature and related documents.
This partnership will enable mutual customers to download and manage the full text of EMBASE.com search results via a newly established EMBASE.com channel in QUOSA Information Manager. QUOSA Information Manager boosts journal retrieval, search and management efficiency for individual users through post-search automated full article retrieval, article organisation and specialised full-text searching. The product claims to be an indispensable tool for extracting key information from full text quickly and more easily. In combination with QUOSA Virtual Library, the partnership enables expert searches on EMBASE.com to be integrated into an easy-to-use current awareness and literature access solution for larger groups.
EMBASE.com combines EMBASE and MEDLINE on one platform, providing users with timely and comprehensive access to pharmacological and biomedical literature. It contains records from over 7,000 journals published in more than 70 countries. Over 19 million bibliographic records are included with more than 2,000 new records added every working day. Users can navigate from citations to full text from leading STM publishers.
Used extensively by the pharmaceutical industry, EMBASE.com retrieves information to support such tasks as new drug development and discovery of new applications for existing drugs; drug safety and pharmacovigilance procedures; legislative and regulatory compliance; clinical trial program management; PI/Supplementary Protection Certificates; and IB writing and regulatory filing documentation such as New Drug Applications (NDAs).
