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Title: Backfile Reveals Biomedical History

Author: Harris, Sian Article Type: Company
Source: Research Information, n33 p29(1) Publication Date: Dec 2007
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URL of Publication: http://www.researchinformation.info

Elsevier Group has digitized its archives, called EMBASE Classic, and will make it available on its website platform in summer 2008. Elsevier also operates the Excerpta Medica database, or EMBASE, which provides access to the most up-to-date citations and abstracts from biomedical and drug literature. It contains over 11 million records from 1974 to the present. EMBASE Classic will extend the reach of research data back to 1947. The backfile was made into an electronic format by scanning in the 43 Excerpta Medica Abstract Journals issues that were contained in a microfilm repository. The process took eight months. Making the backfile readily accessible gives researchers the chance to look back at seminal research, document the history of the life sciences, and document the history of drug toxicities and adverse effects. In order to increase recall and precision searching of the archived literature, additional index terms have been added to each record in EMBASE Classic by automatic indexing. In addition, historic index terms have been mapped to the current EMTREE thesaurus, which contains over 52,000 preferred terms and more than 210,000 synonyms.

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Reed Elsevier Group plc

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Biomedical Research Biomedical Science
EMBASE Classic EMTREE
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