Second 2020 Update to Emtree(TM) with Special Attention to Covid-19-Related Content

The second 2020 update to Emtree, the Embase thesaurus, is now available on STNext(R) and other STN platforms.

For this release, 704 new preferred terms were added. This includes 561 non-drug terms and 143 drug terms. Emtree now includes over 86,750 preferred terms and more than 412,000 synonyms, and is a rich source for search terminology for the biomedical and medical devices literature. This release paid special attention to the adding of terminology to assist the indexing of COVID-19-related content.

Further details of this Emtree update are available at:

https://p.widencdn.net/sordth/Emtree-terms-added-and-changed-May-2020

Please check your strategies for Alerts running in Embase to determine if new terminology would increase your retrieval.