Literature Database- Difference between Medline and Embase Database

MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information.It is compiled by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM).MEDLINE uses Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) for information retrieval. Engines designed to search MEDLINE (such as Entrez and PubMed) generally use a Boolean expression combining MeSH terms, words in abstract and title of the article, author names, date of publication.It mainly covers US journals.

Embase(Excerpta Medica), is a biomedical and pharmacological database produced by Elsevier.It tends to be more comprehensive with inclusion of more EU journals (plus US journals) as well as abstracts of scientific meetings, which you would not find in MedLine.