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Thank you to everyone for their speedy replies. I seem to have opened a can of worms here. Several people gave me a link to a 2006 article about Scopus<https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1420322/> which says "The database claims 4600 health science titles are indexed including 100% MEDLINE coverage, 100% of EMBASE coverage and 100% of Compendex coverage." However, Elsevier's Embase pages<https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/embase-biomedical-research/learn-and-support> say "Scopus includes most, but not all, Embase content", before going on to recommend Embase for more comprehensive searches as Embase uses Emtree much more effectively. I may have to contact Elsevier on this one. Jane Jane Falconer User Support Services Librarian, Library & Archives Service, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine From: UK medical / health care library community / information workers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jane Falconer Sent: 07 February 2017 11:58 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [LIS-MEDICAL] Coverage of EMBASE and SCOPUS Hi everyone, I've just had an email from an academic who has had some feedback from a reviewer about the search she did for her systematic review. The reviewer says: "EMBASE was searched, which is a part of SCOPUS, which has many journals from CEE which are indexed in SCOPUS but not in other databases (see, for example: Mongeon, P. & Paul-Hus, A. Scientometrics 2016)" CEE = Central & Eastern Europe which is the area of the world the SR was looking at. I'm pretty sure EMBASE is not a part of SCOPUS (if it is, I'll ask our acquisitions team to stop purchasing both!) but I can't find any reliable information to confirm/deny this. Does anyone know of anywhere this is discussed? Thanks a lot, Jane Jane Falconer User Support Services Librarian Library & Archives Service London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Keppel Street, London. WC1E 7HT Tel: +44 (0)20 7927 2414 www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/<http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/> [Winner-University-of-the-Ye]