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NHS: EMBASE

A guide to online resources for staff employed by Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Subjects: Medicine

Introduction

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EMBASE, the Excerpta Medica database, is a current and comprehensive pharmacological and biomedical database containing about 10 million documents from 1974 to date, with approximately 500,000 records added annually. This database contains a wide array of comprehensive, evidence-based medicine, drug and medical device efficacy studies. It has access to information on adverse drug events, drug efficacy studies, medical device and disease-related biomedical research information.

EMBASE uses the Ovid interface.  

Getting Started

Access using the link below. Sign in with your OpenAthens account when prompted*.  

EMBASE quick access. 

*Don't have an OpenAthens account? Click here.

Content

With Embase, you can search and access:

Journal coverage from 1947 to the present 

Over 32 million records, including MEDLINE titles 

Over 8,500 journals from over 95 countries, including MEDLINE titles 

Full-text indexing of drug, disease and medical device data

Over 1.5 million records added yearly, with an average of over 6,000 each day 

Over 2.3 million conference abstracts indexed from more than 7,000 conferences dating from 2009 

Over 2,900 indexed journals unique to Embase 

  

   

Finding Full Text Articles

Go to Ovid Embase and search for your topic. Please note that we do not subscribe to every journal indexed in Embase so some citations will not have a full text article available.

Once you have found an article you are interested in and it is available in full text, click on the link on the right-hand side. If you can't find the full text please ask us for help. We may be able to find it for you. 

Using the Ovid Interface

EMBASE uses the Ovid interface. For a walk-through of how the Ovid interface works, please refer to our library guide below. We have also included links to additional resources.  

Library Guide

Training Videos 

Additional Resources