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This template produces a series of links to various medical topic search engines to help find additional reference material for articles. It is designed for talk pages and should not be used in articles themselves&mdash;see [[Wikipedia:EL#Links normally to be avoided]].

==Usage==

* {{tlc|find medical sources}}{{snd}}the article title is used as keywords for the search links
* {{tlc|find medical sources|your|search|keywords}}{{snd}}specify your own search terms in params 1{{snd}}5

==Parameters==

The template takes up to five positional parameters. The first parameter is the main search term, which will be treated as a literal string if more than one word (e.g. <code>protease inhibitor</code> will be searched as the single string "protease inhibitor" (meaning they must be adjacent) not "protease" and "inhibitor" separately). If no parameters are given, the name of the current page where the template is found is used as the search string (not including namespace prefix or parent pagenames).

* {{para|1}} exact-phrase (double-quoted) search term for the query.  (optional; default: the [[Wikipedia:Page name#Subpagename and basepagename|subpagename]].)
* {{para|2}}..{{para|5}} additional (unquoted) search terms, added to the query. (optional)

Optional subsequent parameters (up to 4) are additional search terms. They can be enclosed in double quotation marks, preceded by an unspaced <code>-</code> (hyphen) to exclude them from the search results, or both (e.g. <code>-"aplastic anemia"</code> to exclude matches containing the exact phrase "aplastic anemia", but not either word by itself, from the search results).  You do ''not'' need to add <code>-wikipedia</code>, as the template does this automatically. Also, there is no need to add words in plural form unless irregular, as the search interface will match (for example) ''comorbidities'' given a search term of ''comorbidity''.

If the current subpage has a disambiguator in parentheses, e.g. [[Prussian blue (medical use)]], then the main part of the page name will be quoted and the disambiguation text will follow, like <code>"Prussian blue" medical use</code>. You can specify a different title by using the {{para|title}} parameter.

== Examples ==

{{tlc|find medical sources}} (default search) ⟶ 
: {{find medical sources}}
{{tlc|find medical sources|progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy}} (example with param 1 set) ⟶ 
: {{find medical sources|progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy}}
{{tlc|find medical sources|IL-6|cytokine|liver}} (example with params 1{{snd}}3 set) ⟶
: {{find medical sources|IL-6|cytokine|liver}}

== Search engines ==
The template includes links to the following search engines:
* [[Cochrane Library]]: Leading publisher of systematic reviews.
* DOAJ: [[Directory of Open Access Journals]]
* Gale Academic OneFile: Academic publisher portal from [[Gale (publisher)|Gale]].
* [[Google Scholar]], Google's search engine for academic papers and other scholarly research.
* [[Google Books]], Google's search engine for books.
* [[JSTOR]], an online library containing digitised versions of academic journals. Requires a subscription.
* OpenMD: Search engine for medical literature.
* [[PubMed]]: Search engine for biomedical literature from [[United States National Library of Medicine|NLM]].
* ScienceDirect: [[Elsevier]]'s scientific, technical, and medical research portal.
* Springer: Nature's portal for journals, books, and reference works.
* Trip Database: Search engine for clinical research evidence.
* Wiley Online Library: [[Wiley (publisher)|Wiley]]'s portal for academic articles, books, and collections.

== Note on styling ==

This template generates output in [[HTML element#Inline elements|Html inline-level element]] context, and so may be used with in-line wiki markup to alter the font style. For example:

<code><nowiki><small><em>{{find medical sources|candidiasis}}</em></small></nowiki></code> ⟶
: <small><em>{{find medical sources|candidiasis}}</em></small>
Note: but ''not'': <code><nowiki>''<small>{{find medical sources|candidiasis}}</small>''</nowiki></code> which interacts with the module code.

==Template data==
{{TemplateData header}}
<templatedata>
{
	"params": {
		"1": {
			"label": "Subject",
			"description": "The first unnamed parameter contains the keyword(s) to search.",
			"example": "chemotherapy",
			"type": "line"
		}

	},
	"description": "This template displays a list of links to various medical databases queried on a given topic .",
	"format": "inline"
}
</templatedata>

==See also==
=== Topic templates ===
Domain-specific implementations of {{tl|Find sources}} ([[Module:Find sources/templates/Find sources|config module no longer used]]):
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Find sources
|-
! Topic !! Template !! Module !! Display Box
|- 
| '''General sources''' || {{tl|Find general sources}} || [[Module:Find sources/templates/Find general sources|config]] || {{tl|General sources notice}}
|-
| &boxur; General sources (mainspace) || {{tl|Find sources mainspace}} || [[Module:Find sources/templates/Find sources mainspace|config]] || 
|-
| '''Biographical''' || {{tl|Find biographical sources}} ||  || {{tl|biographical sources notice}}
|-
| '''Medical''' || {{tl|Find medical sources}} || [[Module:Find sources/templates/Find sources medical|config]]
| {{tl|medical sources notice}}
|-
| &boxur; Medical (mainspace) || {{tl|Find medical sources mainspace}} || [[Module:Find sources/templates/Find medical sources mainspace|config]] || 
|-
| '''Video games''' || {{tl|Find video game sources}} || [[Module:Find sources/templates/Find sources video games|config]] || 
|}

=== Related links ===
* {{tl|uw-medrs}}

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