Embase Classic

Embase Classic is an essential abstract and index backfile which enables biomedical researchers to review critical research from 1947 to 1973.
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Drawn from over 3,000 international titles, Embase Classic indexes more than 1.8 million records from the biomedical and pharmacological literature covering 27 years of biomedical research. Abstracts are available for over 90% of records.

• Discover new uses for drugs no longer in current literature.
• Research critical historical data for pharmacovigilance.
• Follow clinical trial research protocols by adverse drug effects from this time period.
• Identify approved uses for older drugs, as well as off-label uses and efficacy claims of the past.
• Stay informed of previously identified toxic substances that no longer appear in current literature but remain dangerous.

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Elsevier

Product Type:

Database

Specialty:

• Andrology
• Anesthesiology
• Animal Sciences
• Audiology
• Biomedical Engineering
• Clinical Laboratory Science & Medical Technology
• Critical Care Medicine
• Dentistry & Dental Hygiene
• Dermatology
• Emergency Medicine & Trauma
• Evidence-Based Medicine
• General Medicine
• Geriatrics & Gerontology
• Health Policy
• Internal Medicine
• Laboratory Medicine
• Neurology
• Neuropsychology
• Neuroradiology
• Neurosurgery
• Nuclear Medicine
• Nutrition & Dietetics
• Obstetrics & Gynecology
• Occupational & Environmental Medicine
• Ophthalmology
• Oral Surgery
• Orthopedics
• Otolaryngology
• Pain Management
• Palliative Medicine
• Pathology
• Pediatrics
• Pharmaceuticals
• Pharmacology
• Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
• Primary Care/Family Medicine/General Practice
• Psychiatry
• Psychology
• Psychopharmacology
• Radiology
• Sports Medicine
• Substance Abuse
• Surgery
• Toxicology
• Transplantation
• Urology
• Veterinary Science
• Virology

Language:

English

Coverage:

1947 - 1973

Number of Records:

1,800,000