Ovid and Elsevier Announce Exclusive Partnership to Offer EMBiology - A New Resource Option for Bioscience Research
Monday June 6, 11:31 am ET

Ovid announced its partnership with Elsevier to offer EMBiology, a new bioscience full text bibliographic database.

EMBiology is going to be marketed as an "affordable resource for small-to-mid-sized academic institutions as well as all pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies interested in extending their biomedical coverage to pure and applied bioscience research."

The database provides coverage on biochemistry, microbiology and molecular biology, genetics and biotechnology, cell and developmental biology, plant and animal science, agriculture, food science, ecology and environmental science, and toxicology. It is comprised of more than four million global bibliographic records from 1980-Present. Approximately 250,000 records are added annually, indexing of more than 2,800 active titles including peer-reviewed journals, trade publications and electronic-only journals. EMBiology includes nearly 1,800 unique titles not covered by EMBASE. The database uses two thesauri merged into a single file: EMTREE and a new Organism taxonomy. The Organism vocabulary is "based on the taxonomies of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), and supports searches for species names, genera and taxonomic terms at all levels, just as in EMTREE."