EMBASE

Embase is a biomedical database that focuses on drugs and pharmacology, medical devices, clinical medicine, and basic science relevant to clinical medicine. It provides access to bibliographic citations to more than 8,500 biomedical journal articles from over 95 countries. It also contains over 2.4 million conference abstracts indexed from more than 7,000 conferences dating back to 2009, as well as full-text indexing of data related to drugs, diseases, and medical devices. It has especially strong coverage on drug trials. Over 1.5 million records are added annually, with an average of more than 6,000 each day.

Embase overall combines three databases:

• Embase from Elsevier: biomedical literature from 1974 to present
• Embase Classic: The Embase back file covering almost 2 million biomedical and pharmacological citations drawn from over 3,000 international titles from between 1947 and 1973.

It is especially strong in:

• Drugs and pharmacology
• Medical devices
• Systematic reviews and evidence-based medicine

• Go to the Library website.
• Open the A-Z Databases.
• Select Embase from the A–Z list.
• On campus: access is automatic.
• Off-campus: Sign in with your RCSI username and password when prompted.