EMBASE是将EMBASE—荷兰医学文摘（1974年推出）中1100多万条生物医学记录与700多万条独特的MDELINE记录（1966年推出）相结合，经过去重，形成全球最大最具权威性的生物医学与药理学文献数据库。EMBASE囊括了70多个国家/地区出版的7,000多种刊物，覆盖各种疾病和药物信息，尤其是它所涵盖的大量欧洲和亚洲医学刊物。是医学研究和科技查新不可或缺的工具。
最新版本的EMBASE提供如下功能：同步检索超过1800万条EMBASE+MEDLINE记录，且结果无重复；每天新增2000多条记录，每年新增记录达到600000万条；EMBASE记录在收到原始刊物后10个工作日内即会出现；涵盖70多个国家/地区出版的7,000多种刊物；80%的记录都包含摘要；EMTREE包含超过50,000条药物与医学术语、10,000条代码和大约200,000条同义词（完全集成了MeSH术语）。
About Embase - Boost your Biomedical Research（以下描述来自embase官网，仅供参考）
The comprehensive biomedical database
Embase's extensive journal and conference coverage, together with in-depth drug indexing and daily updates, supports tracking and precise retrieval of drug and disease information.
Exceptional search capabilities allow you to automate alerts, searching, and documentation, saving you time and ensuring you don't miss a thing. Because Embase delivers wide-ranging and timely access to needed information, you can be confident that your organization is compliant with all post-market regulatory requirements.
What does Embase have to offer?
You can build, edit, and store complex search strategies with Embase, which saves you time, instead of having to search several different databases. Furthermore, the Embase Application Programming Interface supports export, RSS feeds, and integration services, making it possible to share data with a wide range of systems.
Embase indexes articles published in over 90 countries and 40 languages, with the database growing at a rate of over 1 million records a year. Each year many new journal titles are added to Embase - please use the Journal Title Suggestion Form to suggest new titles.
Access our fully digitized back file, Embase Classic, covering valuable data published between 1947 and 1973. Embase Classic lets you monitor adverse drug reactions and find new uses for existing drugs, locate biomedical articles for litigation purposes, and review the history of approved drug uses.
Supporting your biomedical research
To successfully maintain compliance with post-market regulatory requirements, you need to capture the most relevant and up-to-date information from the international biomedical literature, and that's what Embase delivers. Use it for drug safety and pharmacovigilance and to monitor competitors.
A Biomedical Literature Database designed for you
If you're searching MEDLINE, you're only seeing part of the picture. Embase's unparalleled coverage boasts 25 million indexed records, including 2 million biomedical and pharmacological citations, drawn from over 7,600 journals. All of Medline is included, plus 5 million records and 2,000 journals not covered by Medline.
A data feed of not-yet-published Articles in Press and not-yet-fully-indexed In Process records ensures you are not missing any critical drug and disease information from the literature. Embase also connects you to more than 800,000 abstracts from 2,500+ conferences, and each year over 300,000 new conference abstracts are indexed.
