LINUS October 1996

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EMBASE

Betty Lam, Medical Library

EMBASE is a bibliographic database produced by Elsevier Science B.V. It provides literature on biomedicine and pharmacology. This database is complementary to the MEDLINE database, and with these two major databases in the Medical Library, practically the whole spectrum of the medical and biomedical sciences are covered.

Subjects covered:

• Basic biological research
• Biomedical engineering and instrumentation
• Drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics and toxicology
• Forensic science
• Health policy and management
• Human medicine (clinical and experimental)
• Psychiatry
• Public, occupational and environmental health

Special Search Features

EMTAGS Classification (EM)

EMTAGS is a general indexing concept for the overall system used by Elsevier. EMTAGS Classification found in the field (EM) is to identify broad, frequently searched subjects. Examples of EMTAGS Classification are organ systems, experimental subjects, types of study, geographic areas, key aspects, routes of drug administration and age group.

EMCLAS Classification (EC)

EMCLAS is the EMBASE Classification system used from 1974 through 1988. It was the original subject classification system for EMBASE. In 1991, EMCLAS was phased out in favour of the EMTREE system. However, the top level section numbers and headings are still used to classify each record.

For example:

1 Anatomy, anthropology, embryology & histology
2 Physiology
...
9 Surgery
etc

EMTREE Thesaurus

EMTREE is a hierarchically structured, controlled vocabulary used for subject indexing. The thesaurus has been in use since 1988.

Each record in the EMBASE database contains medical and drug descriptors from the EMTREE thesaurus. The use of a controlled vocabulary allows searching for EMBASE records across the Medical Descriptors (DE) and Drug Descriptors (DR) fields.

E.g. Search for Cyclosporin

Sample record from EMBASE

TI: Soluble E-selection levels in psoriatic patient treated with cyclosporin.

AU: Carmona-C; Pineyro-I; Martinez-M; Macedo-NA.

AD: Clinica Dermatologica, Hospital Clinicians, Av. Italia s/n, C.P. 11600 Montevideo, Uruguay.

SO: EUR-J-DERMATOL. 614 (297-299) 1966

CO: EJDEE

IS: 1167-1122

PY: 1966

CP: FRANCE

LA: ENGLISH

LS: ENGLISH

AB: There is accumulating evidence...etc.

DE: *Psoriasis-drug-therapy; human-;...

DR: *Cyclosporin-a-pharmacology; *Cyclosporin-a-drug-therapy; endothelial-leukocyte-adhesion-molecule-1-endogeneous-compound.

EC: Dermatology-and-Venereology(13)

EL: 03700000000

RN: cyclosporin a ; 59865-13-3; 63798-73-2;...

TN: Sandimmum neoral

EM: therapy- (160) manual- (738) human- (888)

TG: 160; 738; 888; 197;...

PT: J ( Journal-Article)

AN: 96173027

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