Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary definitions now available via EMBASE
Oct 17, 2005 - 7:12:00 PM
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"This new feature, a logical combination of two powerful biomedical information tools produced by Elsevier, provides searchers with a more customer-focused service. Linking these 'scope notes' to thesaurus terms will be particularly useful for graduate and medical students, as well as for more advanced researchers and clinicians in academic, corporate and government settings. Feedback from the market has already been extremely positive."
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By Elsevier,
[RxPG] Users of EMBASE.com, the web-based abstracts service covering the global biomedical and pharmacological published literature, now have seamless access to definitions from Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary. This recent EMBASE.com enhancement provides links from EMTREE Thesaurus drug and disease terms directly to Dorland's definitions.
While searching EMBASE.com, users can now easily find more information on specific terms and gain better understanding of concepts through the connection to Dorland's. For example a user looking for records relating to terms such as "cholestatic hepatitis" within the thesaurus will now automatically find a corresponding definition within the search results.
"This new feature, a logical combination of two powerful biomedical information tools produced by Elsevier, provides searchers with a more customer-focused service," says Lisette Cleyndert, Senior Product Manager, EMBASE.com. "Linking these 'scope notes' to thesaurus terms will be particularly useful for graduate and medical students, as well as for more advanced researchers and clinicians in academic, corporate and government settings. Feedback from the market has already been extremely positive."
Access to content from Dorland's is available to EMBASE.com licensed institutions at no additional fee.
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About EMBASE.com
Produced by Elsevier Bibliographic Databases, EMBASE.com is an integrated web-based service, providing access to current, comprehensive and validated biomedical and pharmacological information. Updated daily, it contains over 17 million bibliographic records with abstracts from EMBASE (1974-present) and unique MEDLINE records (1966-present); 550,000 records are added annually. he file covers more than 6,000 journal titles published in 70 countries and features extensive linking to full text, gene and protein sequence databases and Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary.
About Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
For over 100 years, healthcare professionals have relied on Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary for its unmatched comprehensiveness, accuracy, clarity and ease of use. The 30th Edition features more than 125,000 terms, including over 3,000 new terms (over 800 related to complementary and alternative medicine) as well as improved and expanded appendices.
About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. Working in partnership with the global science and health communities, Elsevier's 7,000 employees in 74 offices worldwide publish more than 2,000 journals and 1,900 new books per year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such as ScienceDirect, MD Consult, Scopus, bibliographic databases and online reference works.
Elsevier is a global business headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and has offices worldwide. Elsevier is part of Reed Elsevier Group plc , a world-leading publisher and information provider. Operating in the science and medical, legal, education and business-to-business sectors, Reed Elsevier provides high-quality and flexible information solutions to users, with increasing emphasis on the Internet as a means of delivery. Reed Elsevier's ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).
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