STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that global healthcare company, Bayer HealthCare AG, Germany, has signed an agreement to purchase EMBASE Classic. Available in electronic format for the first time, EMBASE Classic is a fully digitised bibliographic database drawn from 43 Excerpta Medica Abstract Journals published between 1947 and 1973. Covering nearly 3,400 international journals, the database indexes over 1.8 million records from the biomedical and pharmacological literature.
For Bayer HealthCare and other healthcare and biopharmaceutical companies already licensing EMBASE (covering the literature published from 1974-present) or accessing the file via one of the online vendors, EMBASE Classic allows effective and efficient searching of a single file, from 1947 until today. An important benefit of the addition of EMBASE Classic to EMBASE is the documentation of toxicities and adverse effects that have been published about drugs or endogenous compounds at the time. In addition results of clinical trials published prior to 1974 can now be more easily factored into evidence-based medical assessments.
EMBASE Classic contains historic index terms and has been enhanced with additional indexing controlled by the current version of EMTREE to allow for precision retrieval. EMTREE has furthermore been enhanced with historic index terms. EMBASE Classic may be acquired directly from Elsevier or from vendors Ovid, Dialog or DataStar. To celebrate the release of EMBASE Classic, an introductory sales offer is currently available.
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