EMBASE Classic: Biomedical Literature (1947-1973)

An Essential Companion to EMBASE, EMBASE Alerts, and EMCare on Dialog

This page last modified: 8 September 2012

EMBASE® Classic is available on Dialog (File 772). This important new database, produced by Elsevier, contains the bibliographic records originally published in the 43 Excerpta Medica abstract print journals from 1947 through 1973. Drawn from over 3,000 international titles, EMBASE Classic indexes more than 1.8 million records from the biomedical and pharmacological literature. Abstracts are available for more than 90% of the database records.

Combined with other archive data recently added to Dialog, including BIOSIS Previews® (File 5), Zoological Record Online®, and MEDLINE (1951+ in FILE 155), EMBASE Classic will provide greater context for current and future research. Subscribers to EMBASE Classic will be able to search seamlessly across current EMBASE and EMBASE Classic — more than 13 million records and 60 years of authoritative biomedical literature!

EMBASE Classic is a must-have information resource to support research in:

• Drug development
• Pipeline intelligence
• Designing and mounting clinical investigations
• History of approved uses for drugs
• History of scientific and medical discoveries
• Adverse events and reactions monitoring on old drugs or endogenous compounds
• New uses for old drugs
• Previous research of renewed interest due to recent discoveries
• Preparation of new drug applications
• Product safety and compliance monitoring
• Discovery and litigation

EMBASE Classic Subject Coverage

EMBASE Classic on published biomedical literature covering the following topics:

• Pharmacology and Toxicology (1965-1973)
• Anatomy, Anthropology, Embryology, Histology (1947-1973)
• Physiology, Biochemistry, Pharmacology (1948-1973)
• Endocrinology (1947-1973)
• Internal Medicine (1947-1973)
• Biochemistry, Clinical Biochemistry (1965-1973)
• Anesthesiology (1966-1973)
• Ophthalmology (1947-1973)
• Tuberculosis, Pulmonary Diseases, Chest Diseases, & Thoracic Surgery (1948-1973)

Special Features

• EMTREE, Elsevier’s Life Science Thesaurus, is included in EMBASE Classic
• EMTREE includes more than 52,000 preferred terms and over 210,000 synonyms
• EMTREE is also used with current EMBASE databases, ensuring consistent results across EMBASE and EMBASE Classic when using thesaurus terms
• Historic index terms included in records are based on full-text article
• New index terms have been added to all records controlled by the current version of EMTREE
• CAS® Registry Numbers have been added as in EMBASE
• DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) are included for linking out to full text, where available

EMBASE Classic is available via a one-time, perpetual license. Contact your account representative for more information, or contact the Dialog Knowledge Center.

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