Embase Daily/Weekly Alerts includes author-written abstracts when they are available. Approximately 60% of the citations in Embase Daily/Weekly Alerts include abstracts.

Beginning in 1997, the number of references appears at the end of the abstract.

Individual words are indexed in the abstracts field. Enter a single word or phrase to be searched in the abstracts.

The Correspondence Address (AD) field contains the contact information associated with the authors of the document.

The Article Number (AR) consists of a fixed alphanumeric character string used in place of page numbers for electronic documents; it may also be used in addition to page numbers for printed documents.This field, when present, is displayed as part of the Source (SO) field.

The Author (AU) field contains the list of authors associated with the article. The format for authors is last name followed by one or more initials: Smith JC or Smith J. If a single initial could not be transliterated with one letter, two or more letters may be used. Occasionally a name will include the full first name.

Enter the last name, or if it is a common name, enter the last name and first initial. If you are unsure of the spelling of the last name (macdonald or mcdonald), enter one version and then scroll through the list of names to find the other.

The Conference Information (CF) field contains supplementary information about a conference event such as date and its location. Conference information usually is displayed as part of the Source (SO).

Individual words are indexed in the CF field; enter a single descriptive word such as "japan".

The Country of Publication (CP) field contains the full name of the country in which a journal was published (such as United States).

The country name is entered into the index as a phrase.

The Contributors field (CZ) field contains the name and e-mail address of a contributor to the document (e.g. an author, editor, illustrator etc.).

The Date Delivered (DD) field contains the date that the record was issued on Embase Daily/Weekly Alerts by Elsevier.

The Device Manufacturer (DM) field contains the full name of the manufacturer of a drug or device discussed in an article. Manufacturer names are listed in their brief form, for example, Lilly for "Eli Lilly."

View the index to see all Device Manufacturer names. See "Display and Browse Indexes" in the Ovid Online Help for details on viewing and using a field index.

The Device Manufacturer (DM) field will display together with the Device Trade Name (DV) field in the citation.

The DOI (DO) field contains the Digital Object Identifier - a unique and persistent digital identification code for any object of intellectual property. The DOI itself consists of two parts: a prefix which is assigned to each publisher by the administrative DOI agency, e.g., "10.1097", and a suffix which is assigned by the publisher and can be any code that the publisher chooses, e.g., "00045415-200111000-00002". The full DOI appears as such: "10.1097/00045415-200111000-00002"

You can search the DO field by entering either the prefix in quotes ("10.1097".do.) or the entire DOI value in quotes ("10.1097/00004850-200609000-00008".do.).

The Date of Publication (DP) field consists of the date of publication for a citation. This field usually displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

It is searchable either structured in the format of DD MMM YYYY (Example: 23 FEB 2002) or unstructured (Example: Winter 2009 or apr 2009).

The Device Trade Name (DV) field contains the medical device trade names assigned to the records.

View the index to see all Device Trade Names. See "Display and Browse Indexes" in the Ovid Online Help for details on viewing and using a field index.

The Device Trade Name (DV) displays with the Device Manufacturer (DM) field in the citation.

The Embase Section Headings (EC) field contains the EMCLAS classification-description scheme for drugs, adverse reaction titles and pharmacy.

An Embase Section Headings (EC) field with corresponding classification-code is available for the newly indexed data starting in 2008. For more accurate results please search both the Embase Section Headings as well as the numeric code.

The Editor (ED) field contains the list of editors associated with the article.

The format for editors is last name followed by one or more initials: Smith JC or Smith J. If a single initial could not be transliterated with one letter, two or more letters may be used. Occasionally a name will include the full first name. The Editor field is phrase indexed.

Enter the last name, or if it is a common name, enter the last name and first initial.

The Electronic ISSN (EN) field contains the electronic International Standard Serial Number (eISSN) for the journal in which the article was published.

Each journal may have an ISSN, an eISSN, or both. However when there is only an eISSN available it is searchable in the ISSN index and displays in the Electronic ISSN (EN) field.

Like the ISSN (IS), it appears as an 8-digit number, separated by hyphen: 1089-4098.

Subheadings, or "link terms" are qualifiers added to Subject Headings to refine their meaning. Terms such as "adverse drug reaction" or "drug toxicity", when combined with an Subject Headings term, give a very precise idea of what an article covers.

The Floating Subheadings (FS) field contains the 2-letter link terms, such as "AN" for drug analysis.

Sometimes you may wish to retrieve every Subject Heading that includes a particular word; this is done by searching the single word in the Heading Word (HW) field.

The ISBN (IB) field contains the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) for a book or monographic publication.

The ISBN (IB) field appears as a 10-digit number and may contain 13-digit number if available.

The Institution (IN) field contains the primary author's affiliation, which is usually the source for a reprint of the article.

This information is not standardized and often contains abbreviations. Enter the single most descriptive word in an institution (harvard, not university). Consider both full spellings and abbreviations.

Beginning in 1997, the primary author's e-mail address will be included when provided in the original source material.

The ISSN (IS) field contains the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) for the journal in which an article was published.

Each journal may have an ISSN, an eISSN, or both. However when there is only an eISSN available it is searchable in the ISSN index and displays in the Electronic ISSN (EN) field.

It appears as an 8-digit number, separated by a hyphen: 0028-4793.

The Journal Abbreviation (JA) field contains the abbreviated title of an individual journal issue.

The Journal Issue (JI) field contains the title of an individual journal issue.

The Journal Name (JN) field contains the full name of the journal in which an article was published.

View the index to see all journal names. See "Display and Browse Indexes" in the Ovid Online Help for details on viewing and using a field index.

This field displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

The Journal Word (JX) field contains individual words from every journal name in Embase Daily/Weekly Alerts.

This Keyword field (KW) contains keywords defined by the author of the article.

The Language (LG) field contains the language(s) of publication of an article. The language name will appear as the full language name.

For a spelled-out list of languages, refer to the Languages limit menu or view the index. See "Display and Browse Indexes" in the Ovid Online Help for details on viewing and using a field index.

The Local Holdings (LH) field indicates (with a "Y" for "Yes" or an "N" for "No") if a journal is held at your library or institution. This information is designated by your OVID System Administrator.

The Local Messages (LM) field contains messages created by the System Administrator to indicate information about journals held in your local library system.

The Drug Manufacturer (MF) field contains the full name of the manufacturer of a drug or device discussed in an article. Manufacturer names are listed in their brief form, for example, Lilly for "Eli Lilly."

View the index to see all Drug Manufacturer names. See "Display and Browse Indexes" in the Ovid Online Help for details on viewing and using a field index.

The Drug Manufacturer (MF) field will display together with the Drug Trade Name (TN) field in the citation.

The Molecular Sequence Number (MS) field contains an acronym for a source of molecular sequence data (for example, Genbank) and a sequence accession number documented by the source.

The Grant Number (NO) field contains information about awarded grants such as the name of the organization that has awarded the grant.

The Grant Number (NO) field is phrase indexed.

The Original Title (OT) field contains all non-English titles in the original language. If the original title was in a non-Roman alphabet, then the OT is transliterated.

Omit common articles when searching a foreign language: heure not l'heure.

The Publisher (PB) field contains the name and optionally the address of the publisher for Journal, Book, Conference Proceeding, Report, Major Reference Work, Book Series or Trade Journal.

Enter the most distinctive part of a name to locate a publisher, for example: "elsevier".

The first page on which an article appears is indexed in the Page (PG) field. Often a journal title combined with the beginning page number is enough to locate a citation. This field displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

The Publication Type (PT) field contains one of the following indicating the form of the literature indexed.

The Publication Type is also available as a Limit.

The Number of References (RF) field contains the number of references that appear at the end of the document.

The CAS Registry Number (RN) field contains the Chemical Abstracts Service Registry number in an association with chemical name for a compound mentioned in an article.

CAS Registry Number (RN) field are indexed by numbers and/or chemical names. Numbers appear and are searched with hyphens (e.g.50-07-0) and chemical names should be entered as phrase as they appear in the CAS Registry Number display (e.g. squalene monooxygenase).

The Subject Headings (SH) field contains the specific medical terms used by Embase Daily/Weekly Alerts to describe the content of an article. However please note that these preliminary indexing terms are subject to change and may be enhanced when record gets into Embase Proper from the Embase Alert file.

The Summary Language (SL) field contains the language or languages in which the abstract is written.

The summary language name appears in the index as the full language name (french). See "Display and Browse Indexes" in the Ovid Online Help for details on viewing and using a field index.

The Title (TI) field contains the English language version of a title. For documents which are not written in English, the original or transliterated title appears in a separate field, Original Title (OT).

The Drug Trade Name (TN) field contains the trade name for a drug or device discussed in an article.

View the index to see all Drug Trade Names. See "Display and Browse Indexes" in the Ovid Online Help for details on viewing and using a field index.

The Drug Trade Name (TN) displays with the Drug Manufacturer (MF) in the citation.

The Textword (TW) field is an alias for all of the fields in a database which contain text words and which are appropriate for a subject search.

The Textword field in Embase Daily/Weekly Alerts includes Title (TI) and Abstract (AB) and Drug Trade Name (TN).

The Year of Publication(YR) field contains the year in which an article or monograph was published. The full year appears in the document and can be searched using a single 4-digit number.

Year of Publication (YR) field also displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

Author NameID (ZD) field contains author's full name and its Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) unique identifier that may be supplied by the publisher for records added or updated beginning in early 2015.

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