Embase Online Help

The Search Results display shows records (bibliographic citations) from your highlighted search in your session history. This is either a search that has just been completed, or a previous search, which has been reselected by clicking View. Records are displayed by default in order of publication year.

The available options are:

• Publication year: Results are displayed with the most recent year first. Within each year results are displayed in the order in which they were indexed in Embase
• Relevance: The display order depends upon the search statement. If this includes optional search terms (connected using Boolean OR), records are ranked according to how many of these search terms they contain. Otherwise, records are ranked according to the total occurrence of all search terms.

To change the order in which results are displayed, change the Sort by selection from Publication year to Relevance or vice versa. In each case a result set of up to 25 records is displayed. If there are more results, select Next to move to the next set of 25. If you would like to view the details of a group of records, first select the number; 100, 500, 5,000 or exact number of results and click on View. Options for viewing records are outlined in Record View.
 
Previewing Abstracts and Index Terms:
Abstracts and index terms may be previewed in pop up windows from Search Results by clicking on Preview Abstract or Preview Index Terms.
Preview Index Terms provides a complete view of the index terms for each article.
 

• Drug Terms: Major focus drug terms are indicated with bold text. Drugs included in your search profile are highlighted in yellow; drugs found as the result of an explosion search are highlighted in green. Clicking on the icon beside each drug will show the Emtree hierarchy for that drug (or for candidate terms simply open Emtree).

Many drug terms are underlined to indicate that subheadings have been indexed for that drug. Clicking on the drug term will open its related Key Subheadings and/or Other Subheadings. For Key Subheadings, additional related information is displayed in tabular format. All other subheadings are listed under Other Subheadings.
 

• Disease Terms: Major focus disease terms are indicated with bold text. Diseases included in your search profile are highlighted in yellow; diseases found as the result of an explosion search are highlighted in green. Clicking on the icon beside each disease will show the Emtree hierarchy for that disease (or for candidate terms simply open Emtree).

 
Many disease terms are underlined to indicate that subheadings have been indexed for that disease. Clicking on the disease term will open its related Key Subheadings and/or Other Subheadings. For Key Subheadings, additional related information is displayed in tabular format. All other subheadings are listed under Other Subheadings. 
 

• Other Terms: All other index terms (i.e. terms that are neither drugs nor diseases) are displayed as Other Terms. Major focus index terms are indicated with bold text. If you searched for a specific index term, it is highlighted in yellow, diseases found as the result of an explosion search are highlighted in green. Clicking on the icon beside each term will show the Emtree hierarchy for that term (or for candidate terms simply open Emtree).

Source of the article:
The source of the article is displayed under the title as Embase, Medline or both. If you have purchased Embase Classic, this may also be displayed as a source. When Embase is indicated as a source, the article has been indexed by Elsevier. Medline indicates that the citation and indexing is sourced from the United States National Library of Medicine. If both Embase and Medline are indicated, the citation and indexing is from Embase, but the Medline PMID is also available.
 
Cited By:
Cited by counts are indicated after the journal information. The Cited by count links to Scopus, where you may view all articles which have cited this article. If you are a subscriber to Scopus, you will have access to additional Scopus features. Cited by counts are not available for Embase Classic.
 
Full text links:
When available, the Full text link connects to a URL with the full text for the record. This URL may be a publisher site (e.g. ScienceDirect) or an intermediary such as CrossRef or Ingenta Select. Whether or not you can access the full text is subject to the terms of your subscription to that site. In some cases the publisher offers free access to full text. To find out which publisher websites your organization subscribes to, ask your central library or information management department. What if you do not have the required subscription? Some publishers have a pay-per-view system allowing non-subscribers to pay a fee to read articles on their websites. When you click Full Text from and you do not have access to the full text on a publisher's website, you should see a page listing the options available for non-subscribers.
 
OpenURL enabled:
Embase is OpenURL-enabled, which means a Full Text link will connect you to the full text to which your institution has already subscribed. For Embase to enable OpenURL, please ask your librarian to send an email to your regional helpdesk, informing them of the URL of the link resolver and how you would like the links to appear on the screen (e.g. a GIF or as text). Please use the same process if you have any questions about OpenURL.
 
Note:
In Journal searches where results are derived from a single issue, results are displayed in the order in which they were indexed. This is usually, but not necessarily, the same as the page number order.
 
Zero results display:
If your search has zero results, the Search Results display is replaced by a message which contains some tips which may help produce some results. You may also refer to the Search Hints section, but it is also possible that your search is already optimised and that there really are zero results.