Template:Find medical sources/doc

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—see Wikipedia:EL#Links normally to be avoided.

Usage

• {{find medical sources}} – the article title is used as keywords for the search links
• {{find medical sources|your|search|keywords}} – specify your own search terms in params 1 – 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. protease inhibitor 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).

• |1= exact-phrase (double-quoted) search term for the query. (optional; default: the subpagename.)
• |2=..|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 - (hyphen) to exclude them from the search results, or both (e.g. -"aplastic anemia" 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 -wikipedia, 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 "Prussian blue" medical use. You can specify a different title by using the |title= parameter.

Examples

{{find medical sources}} (default search) ⟶

Find medical sources: Source guidelines · PubMed · Cochrane · DOAJ · Gale · OpenMD · ScienceDirect · Springer · Trip · Wiley · TWL

{{find medical sources|progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy}} (example with param 1 set) ⟶

Find medical sources: Source guidelines · PubMed · Cochrane · DOAJ · Gale · OpenMD · ScienceDirect · Springer · Trip · Wiley · TWL

{{find medical sources|IL-6|cytokine|liver}} (example with params 1 – 3 set) ⟶

Find medical sources: Source guidelines · PubMed · Cochrane · DOAJ · Gale · OpenMD · ScienceDirect · Springer · Trip · Wiley · TWL

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.
• 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 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's portal for academic articles, books, and collections.

Note on styling

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

<small><em>{{find medical sources|candidiasis}}</em></small> ⟶

Find medical sources: Source guidelines · PubMed · Cochrane · DOAJ · Gale · OpenMD · ScienceDirect · Springer · Trip · Wiley · TWL

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

Template data

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Find medical sources in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Find medical sources

This template displays a list of links to various medical databases queried on a given topic .

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Subject	1	The first unnamed parameter contains the keyword(s) to search. Example chemotherapy	Line	optional

See also

Topic templates

Domain-specific implementations of {{Find sources}} (config module no longer used):

Find sources

Topic	Template	Module	Display Box
General sources	{{Find general sources}}	config	{{General sources notice}}
└ General sources (mainspace)	{{Find sources mainspace}}	config
Biographical	{{Find biographical sources}}		{{biographical sources notice}}
Medical	{{Find medical sources}}	config	{{medical sources notice}}
└ Medical (mainspace)	{{Find medical sources mainspace}}	config
Video games	{{Find video game sources}}	config

Related links

• {{uw-medrs}}