BLITS: Getting the Best fromEMBASE.com

Embase: ‘UNDER THE HOOD’

Key insights in (less) than 10 minutes...

Before we start...our history, heritage and future

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Embase has been around for a while, but still evolving...

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More international focus? YES, but not at the cost of our N-American coverage...!

Step 1: Gathering resources...from different locations

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...and from different disciplines and topic areas

Other topics 28%

Where’s the difference with Medline? It’s in Pharmacology & Toxicology (+400

journals) & General Clinical Medicine (+300

journals)

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Step 2: Adding a taxonomy (Emtree) to the mix...

We update emtree 3x a year: & hierarchy improvements, etc.

Step 3: Processing and indexing our records...

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Articles in Press (AiPs)

In process records (IPs)

Fully indexed records

Conference abstracts

single step

<1 week

<1 week

(300K records)

260K records 420K records

(160K records)

Deduplication+ conversion(>700K records)

<2 weeks

Articles (pre-pub)

Journal issue (published)

Journal (supp.) (published)

MEDLINE articles

1m records

<1 week

250K records

update update

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We track Embase performance in terms of quality and speed...

Step 4: Tracking our quality and currency...

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Step 5: Shipping Embase...

Other topics 28%

Access Embase through any vendor, Embase.com, or our API...

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