The Embase Psychiatry (EMPS) database has been reloaded with an Alphabetical View of the 2010 EMTREE Thesaurus as well as new fields and other enhancements.
Embase Psychiatry now covers over 7,000 active biomedical publications, including 1,800 journals.
A better "Scope Notes" has been fleshed-out and an enhancement on the "Narrower terms" has been exerted with added [+NT] to shows subjects which also have narrower terms,a way to see which broader terms go with which narrower terms and which narrower terms in display also have narrower terms.
Addition also comprise with completely new terms (New terms") and terms that have been promoted from synonym status to become preferred terms ("Promoted terms").
| New medical terms: | 682 terms |
| New drug terms: | 327 terms |
| Promoted medical terms: | 133 terms |
| Promoted drug terms: | 7 terms |
Taking into account corresponding preferred term demotions to synonym status, the net growth is:
| Medical terms: | 757 terms |
| Drug terms: | 314 terms |
| 3 New Fields | ||||
| Label | Field Name | What's New | ||
| CG | Conference Publication | The Conference Publication (CG) field contains information about the conference proceeding that publishes the conference presentations. Conference publication usually is displayed as part of the Source (SO). | ||
| FI | Figure Information | The Figure Information (FI) field contains information about the content of the source document, such as the number of figures, photographs, tables, maps, CD-ROMs, the presence of an index and the number of references. | ||
| KW | Keyword | This Keyword field (KW) contains keywords defined by the author of the article. | ||
| New Limits | |||
| Label | What's New | ||
| Clinical Trials | A limit to Clinical Trials will restrict retrieval to various trial types indexed in EMBASE found in this limit. This allows for limiting to only those records that refer to trials in certain phase. For example limiting to Phase 3 Clinical Trial, will retrieve only those records that are Phase 3 Clinical Trials. | ||
| Cohrane Library | A limit to Cochrane Library will restrict retrieval to EMBASE documents from Cochrane Library. | ||
| Conference Abstracts | Conference Abstracts as Publication Types limit provides conferences published in supplements in up to 3, 000 clinical and drug-related journals are covered. In 2010, Elsevier will back-fill for 2009 and conference coverage will be added at the estimated rate of 500-1000 conferences and 50, 000-1000,000 abstracts per year. | ||
| Conference Review | Conference Review records provide additional overviews for each conference. | ||
| EBM-Evidence Based Medicine | A limit to Evidence Based Medicine will restrict retrieval of results to only Evidence Based Medicine records or subsets of those such as meta analysis, outcomes research etc. | ||
Complete details on new and changed fields are available in the database guide. If you have any questions, contact your Ovid Support Representative at [email protected].