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==== Licensing information ====
{{hatnote|1=In British English, "licence" is the noun, "to license" is the verb. In US English, the noun is "license" (more in {{section link||ENGVAR}} below)}}

There are three major licensing authorities that make drug information online accessible: <!-- [[Health Canada]] (HC, CA), -->the [[European Medicines Agency]] (EMA, EU), and the [[Food and Drug Administration]] (FDA, US). 

The FDA "Label Information" and the EMA "Product Information", where available, are very detailed. There is material aimed at the professional and also plain-English consumer information. These are excellent reliable source for article information but also contains much that makes it a worthwhile "External link" since there is no way one can include all the info. Both sites work when using the brand name of the drug but the FDA site also allows searches with the generic name (active ingredient), which lists generic variants where they are licensed. Health Canada's site operates similarly to the FDA's site, with Canada-specific drug monographs and other information. The DailyMed site is a more user-friendly repository of primarily labeling information. For all sites, the use of the generic name of the drug is preferred whenever possible as this will list all brand and generic forms of the drug.
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| licence_EU = <!-- Any input here (like '=yes'), will give link by INN -->
| DailyMedID = <!-- DailyMed may use generic or brand name (generic name preferred) -->
| licence_US = <!-- or |license_US=; FDA may use generic or brand name (generic name preferred) -->
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<!-- Sep 2020: CA not used, broken API | licence_CA = Health Canada may use generic or brand name (generic name preferred) -->

:{{para|licence_EU|yes}} will create a link to the EMA site, using the INN (i.e., INN, drug_name or article title). When the EMA used INN is different, enter its INN in {{para|INN_EMA}}.
Lists of products and the parameter term to use may be easily searched for:
* European Public Assessment Reports: [http://www.ema.europa.eu/sitemap.htm SiteMap], authorised products A–Z: [http://www.ema.europa.eu/ema/index.jsp?curl=pages/medicines/landing/epar_search.jsp human], [http://www.ema.europa.eu/ema/index.jsp?curl=pages/medicines/landing/vet_epar_search.jsp veterinary]
* Licence EU (EMA): ''any'' input in {{para|licence_EU}} will give a link to the EMA page for the active substance (INN).
* Drugs@FDA [http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/index.cfm?fuseaction=Search.Search_Drug_Name Search by Drug Name or Active Ingredient]
*: Where items are composed of more than one word, '''DailyMedID''' and '''licence_US''' require an underscore '_' in place of any spaces; e.g. ''Acyclovir_sodium''.