Clinical Key: Resource of the week #42

What is it?

Clinical Key is a clinical search engine that allows you to use simple free text to search through thousands of articles to quickly find answers you need.

Key Features

It includes a wide range of content, such as:

Journals
eBooks
Drug resources – BNF and BNFc
Guidelines – including NICE
Patient Education leaflets
Videos

You can also choose to include Medline in your search as well as the Clinical Key content.

When presented with search results you can use the filters to focus your search by:

Source type
Specialty
Date
Authoring organisation

There are additional advanced features such as saving content and creating presentations.

How can it help you?

Clinical Key offers you access to a wide range of full-text material in many different forms. The search facility is a simple search engine which can easily help you to find the right information quickly.

How to access it?

Clinical Key is available to UHNM via their NHS Athens login.

Video demo

I have created a range of videos to introduce you to the main features and to help you to get to grips with the basic functionality. You can find the list of videos on the Health Library YouTube channel.

Get started by watching this video

eTutorial

You can complete our Using Clinical Key etutorial to get a full-list of the help we have available for you.

Or check out my blog posts detailing Clinical Key features.

Did you know?

Clinical Key is also available as an app.

More help?

For more help on using Clinical Key go to our help page.

Comments

What is NHS OpenAthens?

To access our NHS-subscribed, online resources you need a username / password - this is an NHS OpenAthens username / password. OpenAthens is a protocol that allows you to log in to many different online resources using just one username and password. It is a service purchased by the NHS so that all NHS staff can easily access online resources such as ebooks, articles, journals, databases and clinical tools. To register for your NHS OpenAthens username complete the online form . Need more help? For more help you can: Contact your NHS OpenAthens administrator Complete our etutorial: NHS OpenAthens - what's fact or fake? Go to our NHS OpenAthens web page Go to our NHS OpenAthens help page

NHS OpenAthens - what's fact or fake?

What do you know about NHS OpenAthens? Are you eligible for an NHS OpenAthens username? What can you access with an NHS OpenAthens username? Do you think an NHS OpenAthens username will help you? Ignore all the rumours and check out what's fact or fake news. Complete our short quiz - NHSOpenAthens - what's fact or fake - to learn more about NHS OpenAthens, whether you are eligible and how you can get your own username to access key resources. Our updated etutorial is free and easy to access. Have a go at the quiz to find out whether you know the facts about NHS OpenAthens. Then complete the online form to register for your username - step-by-step instructions are available. Need more help? Contact the Health Library if you need more help setting up your NHS OpenAthens username.

New titles for the NHS Kortext ebook collection

New Fast Fact titles have been added to the Kortext ebook collection available to NHS staff. The titles are: Fast Facts for Patients: Alpha Thalassemia Fast Facts for Patients: Colorectal Cancer with KRAS Mutation Fast Facts for Patients: Follicular Lymphoma Fast Facts for Patients: Marginal Zone Lymphoma Fast Facts for Patients: Sexual and Reproductive Health after Gynaecological Cancer Fast Facts for Patients: Urogenital Atrophy Fast Facts: Aromatic L-Amino Decarboxylase Deficiency Fast Facts: Cognition in Multiple Sclerosis Fast Facts: Epilepsy in Children and Young People Fast Facts: Follicular Lymphoma Fast Facts: Marginal Zone Lymphoma Fast Facts: The Gut Microbiome You can access these titles via: the Kortext collection available from our ebooks page searching the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub You will need to log in using your NHS OpenAthens username.

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