embase: under the hood in 10 mins at mla 2012
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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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2. Go to embase.com/info
3. Or contact us now at http://www.embase.com/info/contact-us!
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