Embase is an online database providing coverage of one of the largest selections of biomedical literature available, including:
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8500+ currently published journals from 90+ countries, nearly 3000 of which are not indexed by PubMed or Medline
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32 million+ records
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grey literature, including 3 million abstracts from 7000+ conferences dating back to 2009
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extensive drug and pharmacy literature
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historical literature dating back to 1947
Embase facilitates precision searching with several distinct search types and extensive search refinement tools. It utilizes a hierarchically-structured controlled vocabulary called Emtree.