Changes to EMBASE.com scheduled for 27th June 2009 which are designed to meet the needs of all users, now also fully supporting Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer 7 browsers.

Content • EMBASE.com has been enhanced with the addition of over 1.2 million MEDLINE records from 1950-1965. • Searches can now be pre-defined to select all records within MEDLINE (previously, the “MEDLINE” option defined records “unique to MEDLINE”). • Records unique to EMBASE can be retrieved by the search: [embase]/lim NOT [medline]/lim.

Search Language • Two new proximity operators with enhanced functionality replace the *n operator : o NEAR/n requests terms that are within n words of each other, in either order. For example, symptom NEAR/5 headache retrieves records with at most 4 words between the search terms symptom and headache (in either order). o NEXT/n requests terms that are within n words of each other, in the order specified. • The proximity operators NEAR and NEXT can be used with parentheses, truncation and field limits, for example: (symptom* NEAR/5 (headache* OR ‘head ache’)):TI,AB

Quick Search • Publication Year defaults to “All Years” (this also applies to Advanced Search). • Other Search Limits are available via Advanced Search • New “Autocomplete” feature offers guidance for selection of search terms (using EMTREE terms which begin with the same character string).

Other Search Forms • Advanced Search now includes a Field Limit option, replacing the Field Search Form. • Restyled Quick and Advanced Limits allow immediate access to all limits in Advanced Search (including Drug and Disease Search). • Browse Journals has been redesigned providing easier navigation and access to journal details.

Search Results • The Results page offers a preview of Abstract and Index terms • The Records page highlights terms retrieved from explosion searches (in green) in the index term field.