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Elsevier publishes some of my favorite books and journals, and everything works great on a desktop or laptop, but if you are using the app on iPhone or iPad, it is a dreadful experience. You get continuous warnings that your network has changed, even when it hasn’t, and why the app even cares is beyond me. The textbook search engine will not take you to the requested textbook, and there is no list to jog your memory, just a place to enter a textbook name from memory. Searching for articles often leads you to something completely unrelated to the key words you entered. The application also will not run in the background, so if you leave to use another app, you lose everything you were looking at. Looks from reviews like these problems have been present for several years, though the app is only at v. 1.something, so not so not well attended to. Unless you plan to use clinical key only on your computer, I would skip it and go with Up to Date.

Is anyone paying attention to this app anymore? I noticed the last update was a year ago. The resources in this database are incredible, and I find the information to be easily readable and well laid out. However, I keep getting booted out while using the app. And, furthermore, it is not easy to get logged back in since I have to go through the institutional login route. Please update and simply this app!! I really want to love this app and rely on it, but you’re making that difficult for me.

Publishers like Elselvier are exactly the ones driving people to pirate and not pay. My institution pays for my access and for some dumb anti-user reason, they decide to log you out every time you close the app to satisfy some idiotic internal “security” requirement. You will have a better user experience if you download the PDF - I’m not advocating for piracy but I shouldn’t have to pay to be treated like a criminal.