Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, and STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, have entered into a partnership allowing hospitals to access EMBASE on EBSCOhost. EMBASE is a biomedical bibliographic database produced by Elsevier.
EMBASE is especially strong in its coverage of drug and pharmaceutical research. The database contains over 12 million records derived from biomedical articles in peer-reviewed journals. It covers nearly 5,000 active journals, of which nearly 2,000 are not covered by MEDLINE. Each EMBASE record contains a full bibliographic citation, and more than 80 percent have an abstract. In addition, all EMBASE records are indexed using EMTREE, Elsevier's Life Science thesaurus. EMTREE contains 55,000 preferred terms, of which 27,000 are drug terms.
Representing published journals from 70 countries and 30 languages, EMBASE includes more than 12 million records from 1974 to present. Over 600,000 records are added annually.
