2009 EMBASE Pollution & Toxicology (PTXB) Reload News

The EMBASE Pollution & Toxicology database has been reloaded. The reload incorporates the latest version of the EMTREE thesaurus.

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

6 Changed Fields

Label   Field Name   What's New
BS   Book Series   The Book Series (BS) field previously was associated with the BT field code.  The BT field code now represents the new field Book Title (BT).
CF   Conference Information   The Conference Information (CF) field now has two categories, the conference event such as date and its location, and/or conference publication containing information about the conference proceeding that publishes the conference presentations.
EC   Embase Section Headings  

The Embase Section Headings (EC) field is now displayed with section code.

ED   Editor  

The Editor (ED) field is now displayed separately from Author (AU) field.

JI   Journal Issue   The Journal Issue (JI) field was previously called Journal Series (JI), however, the data displays differently.  The previous Journal Series (JI) only contains the issue title of source with the source type “Journal”  but the new Journal Issue (JI) now contains both the (issue) title of a source with the source type “Journal” and the (book) title of an individual issue of a source with the source type “Book Series”.
PB   Publisher  

The Publisher (PB) field was previously displayed in the Source (SO) field and will now be displayed below the Source (SO) field .

 

11 New Fields

Label   Field Name   What's New
AD   Correspondence Address  

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

BT   Book Title  

The Book Title (BT) field contains information relating to the original title and subtitle of the document as it appears with the publication. The Book Title field displays in the Source (SO) field.

CN   Clinical Trial Number  

The Clinical Trial Number (CN) field contains the clinical trial number associated with the record.

CR   Copyright   The Copyright (CR) field contains the copyright information associated with an article.
CZ   Contributor  

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

DD   Date Delivered  

The Date Delivered (DD) field contains the date that the record was issued.

DO   DOI  

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.).

JA   Journal Abbreviation  

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

KW   Keyword  

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

NO   Grant Number  

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

Individual words are indexed in the NO field. Enter a single word or phrase to be searched in the grant number.

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

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].

Reload News last updated November 16, 2009.