What is the difference between Embase and PubMed?
Embase is a completely separate database to PubMed and MEDLINE, but it does contain all of the articles that can be found in MEDLINE. It also contains over 7 million records that cannot be accessed via MEDLINE/PubMed.
Is PubMed a reliable source?
PubMed delivers a publicly available search interface for MEDLINE as well as other NLM resources, making it the premier source for biomedical literature and one of the most widely accessible resources in the world.
What is the difference between Google Scholar and PubMed?
Whereas PubMed searches retrieve published literature from biomedical journals, Google Scholar searches retrieve both published and unpublished literature from a range of disciplines.
Is everything on NCBI peer-reviewed?
Most of what is left will be peer reviewed. Alternatively, you can use Journals in NCBI Database (found on the Home page or under More Resources at the top of the Advanced Search page) to look up a specific journal and go to the journal site to to see if it is peer reviewed.
Which clinical database is most similar to PubMed?
What is Embase?
- An Elsevier database that covers the same subjects as PubMed/MEDLINE, with an additional focus on drugs and pharmacology, medical devices, clinical medicine, and basic science relevant to clinical medicine.
- Available by subscription through a number of interfaces. FIU provides access to Embase.com.
Is Embase free to use?
What is Embase? Online version of Index Medicus produced by the US National Library of Medicine (NLM). Freely available on the Internet.
Why is Google Scholar not reliable?
Some of the Disadvantages include: 1. Some of the work included in Google Scholar is not peer-reviewed and has been less rigorously scrutinised than the peer-reviewed sources included in Web of Science and Scopus. 2. It is possible for unethical academics to “game” Google Scholar citation counts.
Is Google Scholar as good as PubMed?
Conclusions. In conclusion, for quick clinical searches, Google Scholar returns twice as many relevant articles as PubMed and provides greater access to free full-texts. Improved searching by clinicians has the potential to enhance the transfer of research into practice and improve patient care.
How do I access Embase for free?
To access Embase, log in to Research4Life via the link in our navigation bar above. Navigate to Hinari, and select ‘databases’. You will find Embase in the overview of databases offered through Research4Life. Webinars are available via Elsevier if you require further training.
Is Elsevier and Embase same?
EMBASE (www.embase.com) is published by Elsevier Science. It is a European-oriented database with records from 1947 onwards on more than 22 million articles from more than 7600 scientific journals in pharmacology and medicine, including about 2000 journals not indexed in Medline.
How accurate is Google Scholar citations?
Google Scholar uses their own search engine to search and include research papers in their databases. They are quite accurate but not completely or 100 accurate as there are numerous journals and conference not indexed by google scholar.