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2024 Embase: Excerpta Medica (EMED) Reload News

The Embase: Excerpta Medica (EMED) database has been reloaded to implement the new 2024.03 Thesaurus Tool.

Changes in the new thesaurus:

Emtree Terms Added in September 2024

70 drug terms (terms assigned to the Chemicals and Drugs facet).
534 non-drug terms (terms not assigned as Chemicals and Drugs).

Emtree Terms Changed in September 2024

51 terms (38 drug terms and 13 non-drug terms) from Emtree May 2024 have been replaced by 49 different terms in September 2024 (12 drug terms and 37 non-drug terms).
Of these, 47 terms (10 drug terms and 37 non-drug terms) are new (e.g. new generic names for drug chemical names) and have been assigned creation date 2024; the remaining 2 replacement terms (2 drug terms and 0 non-drug terms) were already present in Emtree.
No drug terms were replaced by a non-drug term, No non-drug terms were replaced by a drug term. No preferred terms were deleted.

Complete details on changes of the new thesaurus are available here:

In addition, Ovid has made the following changes to the database:

New Field

Label

Field Name

What's New

History

This History (HI) field provides the date on which an automatically and fully indexed record were delivered into Embase.

Date Article-in-Press Loaded provides the date on which an automatically indexed record (e.g., article in press) is loaded into Embase. Besides conference abstracts and preprints, all automatically indexed records are subsequently indexed manually and loaded again into EMBASE.

Date Created provides the date on which a fully indexed (automatically and manually) record was delivered to Embase.

Date Loaded provides the date on which a fully indexed (automatically and manually) record is loaded into Embase.

Record Updated Date provides the history of the record, listing each date when an update is made to the record.

Changed Field

Label

Field Name

What's Changed

First Date

From: Date Delivered (DD) to: First Date (DD)

The First Date (DD) field contains the first Date Loaded from the History (HI) field. The date is from the first Elsevier XML element <date-loaded>.

This date is static.

INPUT EXAMPLES:

date-created year="2024" month="07" day="30"
date-aip-loaded year="2024" month="03" day="05"
date-loaded year="2024" month="03" day="05"
date-loaded year="2024" month="07" day="31"
record-updated-date year="2024" month="03" day="05"
record-updated-date year="2024" month="07" day="31"

OVID DISPLAY:

First Date: 20240305

Deleted Fields

Author NameID (AO)
Conference Editor (CW)
Conference Publication (CG)
Figure Information (FI)
Parent Book Title (BK)
Part Number (PA)
Preferred Journal Name (PJ)
Journal Translated Name (TJ)

If you have any questions, contact your Ovid Support Representative at [email protected].

Reload News last updated January 13, 2025.