Embase Classic

Embase has an impressive record when it comes to providing you with the biomedical answers you need. Today our comprehensive database covers over 7,000 peer-reviewed journals, and we regularly add new titles to deliver the very best service possible.

Recognizing that in order to move forwards, sometimes you have to take a step back, our fully digitised backfile Embase Classic covers more than 1.8 million biomedical and pharmacological citations, drawn from over 3,400 international titles from between 1947 and 1973.

Indexed using our unique life science thesaurus Emtree, Embase Classic provides effective search, retrieval and linkage tools, enabling users to construct, broaden or refine searches, aiding precision retrieval.

Embase Classic supports:

• Adverse drug reaction monitoring on old drugs or endogenous compounds
• Finding of new uses for old drugs
• Compliance with legislation and regulations
• Effective use of historic research that is revived with a new discovery
• Retrieval of biomedical articles useful for litigation purposes
• Review of the history of approved uses for drugs
• Identification of the trail of prior scientific thinking to connect theories to data

Embase Classic offers:

• Abstracts for 90% of all records
• Indexing updated with current Emtree terminology
• Historic index terms (from article full text), where more extensive than the current Emtree
• DOIs, where available, allowing easy navigation to full text

Embase Classic Coverage | Embase Classic Use Cases