literature-search-europepmc
OfficialFind and download open-access papers fast
Education & Research#literature search#open access#citation graph#europepmc#pmcid#full text retrieval
Authorgoogle-deepmind
Version1.0.0
Installs0
System Documentation
What problem does it solve?
It helps you quickly search Europe PMC for open-access life-science literature and then retrieve usable full text and related citation context without manually navigating sites.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Open-Access–only search: Automatically enforces the OPEN_ACCESS:y filter so only open-access content is retrieved and processed.
- Structured retrieval: Download open-access PDFs by PMCID, fetch full-text XML, and convert full text to plain text for downstream summarization.
- Citation graph support: Retrieve citing articles and reference lists to support literature reviews, pathway exploration, and evidence gathering.
- Use Case: You have a topic query (e.g., “CRISPR cancer”), find relevant open-access articles, download their PDFs, extract full text, and then expand your reading set via citations and references.
Quick Start
Use the Europe PMC skill to search for open-access papers matching your query and write the results to a JSON file by running: uv run scripts/europepmc_api.py search "CRISPR cancer" --max_results 5 --output results.json
Dependency Matrix
Required Modules
scienceskillscommon
Components
scripts
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