Published at October 25th, 2025 Last updated 9 days ago

Embase

Embase is a biomedical database with over 25 million indexed records and covers relevant and up-to-date biomedical research, from drugs and diseases from pre-clinical studies to critical toxicological information, in more than 7600 peer-reviewed journals, 2500 conferences and 300.000 conference abstracts.

 

Overview

Content type  License / subscription Available for Automated search Integrated with Available Updates
Research output Yes

Persons: Yes

Organisational units: No

Yes

 

Set up online source

Go to Administrator > Research outputs > Online sources > Embase

Setting Description Notes
Enabled Toggles it available for users or not.  

Institution token

 
This represents an institution token. If provided, this key (in combination with its associated API Key) is used to establish the credentials needed to access content in this resource. In order to activate the Embase self import source you need to subscribe to the Embase API. Contact your Elsevier Account Manager for more information.

 

Mapping of document types from Embase

Table with mapping of types to Pure.

Document type in Scopus

Publication type in Pure

Base UK

Publication type in Pure

Base DK

Publication type in Pure

Base DE

Note

Article Contribution to journal › Article      
Review        
Conference paper        
Conference review Contribution to journal ›      
Letter Contribution to journal ›      
Editorial Contribution to journal ›      
Note Contribution to journal ›      
Short survey Contribution to journal ›      
Business article Contribution to journal ›      
Erratum Contribution to journal ›      
Article in press Contribution to journal ›      
Book        
Report        
Undefined        
 
 

 

Mapping of fields in Embase

Table with mapping of fields to Pure.

Field in embase

Field in Pure

UK model

Field in Pure

DK model

Field in Pure

DE model

Note

  Abstract Abstract (på engelsk) Abstract (in english)  
  Address on the related external organisation      
  Title of the contribution in original language Bidragets titel på originalsprog Title of the contribution in original language Content before first ":"
  Subtitle of the contribution in original language Bidragets undertitel på originalsprog Subtitle of the contribution in original language Content after first ":"
  Address on the related external organisation      
  DOIs DOI DOIs  
  URLs Links X  
  Pages (from-to) Sider (fra-til) Pages (from-to) Number of pages is calculated
  ISSN on related journal ISSN på tilknyttet tidsskrift ISSN on related journal Matched to existing journal if that is not possible a new is created
  Issue number Nummer Journal number  
  Added to External persons - New external organisation created (or match to existing)     For internal persons, the persons current Pure organisations is added
  Journal publication date Tidsskriftets publikationsdato Publication date If we only receive year and month, we set the day to the 1th 
  ISSN on related journal ISSN på tilknyttet tidsskrift ISSN on related journal  
  Contribution to journal: Title of the related journal Artikel i tidsskrift: titel på det relateret tidsskrift Contribution to journal: Title of the related journal  
  Contribution to book: Title of the host publication in original language Bidrag til bog: Værtspublikationens titel på originalsprog Contribution to book: Title of the host publication in original language  
  Pages (from-to) Sider (fra-til) Pages (from-to) Number of pages is calculated
  Author - First name Forfatter - Fornavn Author - First name

For internal Authors, Pure name is added in parentheses

For external authors a new external person is created or matched to an existing

  Author - Last name Forfatter - Efternavn Author - Last name

For internal Authors, Pure name is added in parentheses

For external authors a new external person is  created or matched to an existing

  Volume Vol/bind Volume