HSLIC recently licensed Embase, a versatile, multipurpose biomedical research and literature database, for the UNM HSC community. For those of you who have used this database at other institutions, you know it is a highly powerful tool and one UNM has been missing in our collection.
Embase is an essential database to include when conducting comprehensive systematic reviews so that you can thoroughly study the published literature on a particular topic and make the best-informed evidence-based medicine decisions.
Biomedical content coverage in Embase includes:
- Journal coverage from 1947 to the present
- Over 32 million records, including MEDLINE titles
- Over 8,500 journals from over 95 countries, including MEDLINE titles
- Over 2,900+ indexed journals unique to Embase (not in MEDLINE)
- Over 1.5 million records added yearly, with an average of over 6,000 each day
- Over 2.4 million conference abstracts indexed from more than 7,000 conferences dating from 2009
- Full-text indexing of drug, disease and medical device data
Comprehensive literature searches require searching more than one database in order to uncover as much available evidence as possible. While Embase and PubMed may overlap with some content, search results differ based on the way the two databases are indexed. When conducting systematic reviews, it is highly recommended to search both PubMed and Embase – in addition to other relevant databases.
For more information on conducting systematic reviews and librarian consultation services, please refer to our research guide. For help searching Embase, please request a consultation by completing our intake form.