Quick Search
Quick Search is the default homepage for Embase.
It has been engineered to be a very simple search interface that produces maximum search results with minimal user effort. It is ideal for quick literature checks, and is a good starting point for searchers who are not already experienced at using Embase.
Quick Search offers:
- A text box for typing words or phrases. Enclose mult-word phrases in quotation marks (see below). An autocomplete function points to possible Emtree thesaurus term(s) for the first word entered.
- Extensive search for the broadest possible retrieval.
- Search Publications from: to specify individual publication years or ranges.
Simply click the Search button to execute the search.
Additional tools and options for searching can be found in Advanced Search, Drug Search, Disease Search, Article Search, Journals and Authors.
Notes
- Very important: Enclose multi-word phrases in quotation marks; they can be either single or double quotes, as long as they match each other. This will ensure your phrase is searched as words adjacent to each other, in the order given. For instance, ‘drug resistance’ retrieves:
chronic myeloid leukemia (drug resistance, drug therapy)
If quotes are omitted, the words are processed with a Boolean AND operator, which can result in a large quantity of irrelevant results (“false hits”), since the terms can occur at some distance apart from each other within a database record. Drug resistance (without quotes) can result in:
“Inflammation of the brainstem microvasculature may increase vascular resistance ...” (in the abstract) and “essential hypertension (drug therapy, etiology) (in the indexing).
- Boolean operators, wildcards, proximity operators and field labels can be used in Quick Search for additional flexibility and precision:
diabetes:ti,ab and (sugar or glucose) and monitor*