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Clinical Key: full-text access for in-depth reading

 Staff at UHNM can access a wealth of full-text, evidence-based resources to support in-depth reading for research and professional development. Refresh your knowledge on key topics or search for the latest research and developments.

Clinical Key includes thousands of ebooks and hundreds of journals, as well as multimedia resources; all accessible via your NHS OpenAthens username.

You can:

Find Books

The book collection includes specialty titles and key textbooks. You can browse for books by specialty, A-Z or title. You can search across the collection via keyword and filter to resource type.

Read books online or download chapters to read offline later.

Watch our video to learn more about finding books on Clinical Key:

Search Journals

The journal collection includes full-text access to a wide range of key journals. You can browse for journals by specialty, A-Z or title. Check which journals are available in your specialty.

browse clinical key journals by category, a-z or title

You can complete simple searches across the collection via keyword and filter to resource type.

You can also link into the Clinical Key journals collection when searching the main NHS-based databases such as medline, cinahl, embase etc. as well as the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub. Full-text articles will be identified and a link provided.

Multimedia

The multimedia collection includes videos and images, which you can browse by specialty or resource type. You can also search across the collection and filter by image or video.

browse options for multimedia

Access

Clinical Key is available to UHNM staff. Access it via the Health Library NHS Resources page or log in here via OpenAthens.

Watch this video for help logging in and activating your account.

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