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Our people love using ClinicalKey, and it is easy to navigate. They can find the information right...

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ClinicalKey is stable.

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ClinicalKey’s biggest strength is its background information content with eBooks and eJournals. It...

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Elsevier kind of muddies its marketing for ClinicalKey. It is marketed as a clinical decision...

Sep 2025
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Elsevier could be more proactive. I don't get any communications from them. Instead of me trying to...

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ClinicalKey provides a hospital library for a public organization. Having full textbooks and...

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Elsevier keeps in contact, and they answer questions when I need them. They have great ways for us...

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For ClinicalKey purposes, we are unable to get all the Elsevier books and journals. I can't buy all...

Sep 2025
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Elsevier is trying to play outside of their lane a little. Their AI tool is not useful at all; it...

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Elsevier overcharges me, and if I want to add something ClinicalKey, they charge us for that. It...

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ClinicalKey gives us the data we need. The vendor has been adding more interoperability with...

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Elsevier was supposed to have something added for us in ClinicalKey months ago, but they just keep...

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I have heard good things about ClinicalKey AI, and I hope my organization will expand that...

Jun 2025
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I don't know that we have integrated other solutions with ClinicalKey as effectively as we could,...

Jun 2025
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Elsevier has made it a lot easier for our providers to use ClinicalKey. When we are looking for a...

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When we search ClinicalKey, it isn't intuitive. The smiley faces have to go. They get in the way....

May 2025
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I bought ClinicalKey many years ago because Elsevier's bundle of journals was going to be less...

Apr 2025
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Elsevier has the best customer service. If we have to troubleshoot and if anything is going wrong...

Apr 2025
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ClinicalKey is overpriced, and Elsevier now has AI products that should add value. They shouldn’t be...

Apr 2025
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One strength of ClinicalKey is the book content. It has about 1,000 textbooks, and that is really...

Apr 2025
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ClinicalKey is relatively easy, but Elsevier does force users to create an account to be able to...

Apr 2025
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I would like Elsevier to add back in some of the things that they have taken out. They took out...

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I don't think that Elsevier keeps their promises. Mostly, that is due to how the customer service...

Apr 2025
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Operations, Value

Elsevier could do more training on what my patrons are actually doing. ClinicalKey has certain...

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With Elsevier, the people at the upper levels don't actually try to reach out to me but only to my...

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ClinicalKey's interface is pretty intuitive for end users. I don't think anybody has problems...

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I would like to see better interaction between ClinicalKey and ScienceDirect. There has started to...

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Elsevier is not particularly flexible about trying to integrate ClinicalKey into the platform we...

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ClinicalKey's biggest strength is the depth of content. We get ClinicalKey for the journals, and the...

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I would recommend ClinicalKey with some reservations. ClinicalKey has downsides, but it gets the job...

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Elsevier’s support team is very responsive. Elsevier’s support is definitely more proactive than the...

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A lot of people, including me, are frustrated with Elsevier. They came out with a new product called...

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The issue is not that we don't like the ClinicalKey AI feature in the ClinicalKey solution. The...

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Elsevier is delivering AI, so that is new technology. Elsevier got in touch with our EMR people...

Apr 2025
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ClinicalKey has modules, and Elsevier charges us for each module, so the system is going to be...

Mar 2025
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Elsevier's customer support team takes a little while to get back to us. I can just have a random...

Mar 2025
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We are looking at ClinicalKey AI. It is a bound AI, so it is mostly bound to Elsevier's software and...

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There is a way that we can harvest usage statistics for our organization, and it is easy for every...

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We don’t have a relationship with our representative from Elsevier; we might hear from them once a...

Mar 2025
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Overall, ClinicalKey is not bad, but Elsevier could enhance their filtering of the ClinicalKey...

Mar 2025
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Even with some of the pain points in ClinicalKey, the amount and quality of the content is worth it....

Mar 2025
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One of the nice things about ClinicalKey is that the book chapters, if not the books, are available...

Mar 2025
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In the past, I had a billing issue with ClinicalKey, and it was a headache to get that issue...

Mar 2025
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ClinicalKey as a resource is serving its purpose. It is helpful that there is a large ebook...

Mar 2025
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The statistical usage tool in ClinicalKey is a bit clunky. That piece could be easier to get into...

Mar 2025
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I like ClinicalKey's content. Since ClinicalKey is an arm of Elsevier, I like the access to...

Mar 2025
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Elsevier is impossible to work with. The representative at Elsevier doesn't do a great job. I'm not...

Mar 2025
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Elsevier doesn’t keep their promises. ClinicalKey doesn’t function. All the links users can find...

Mar 2025
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I would probably buy ClinicalKey again no matter what because it is a tremendous repository of...

Mar 2025
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Elsevier has never offered anything with interoperability. We have told them we have Epic's system....

Mar 2025
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Some users use ClinicalKey a lot. Most of them get frustrated and call us. The search engine is...

Mar 2025
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Culture, Loyalty

We have renewed our contract with Elsevier, and we won't back out of it. Elsevier doesn’t charge...

Mar 2025
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Director

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In the book section of ClinicalKey, we have to sign in to our personal account to get PDFs of book...

Mar 2025
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I have regular meetings with my representative. They are very attentive and would probably send...

Mar 2025
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Operations, Product

The information in ClinicalKey is always quite current. If a journal issue is published, the full...

Mar 2025
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I don't like the search functionality in ClinicalKey. There is a lot of great functionality in the...

Mar 2025
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Culture, Value

There are several functions within the entire ClinicalKey database, and Elsevier doesn't charge us...

Mar 2025
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ClinicalKey is really easy to navigate. It provides all the information that our clinicians need...

Jan 2025
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