About this source
Search with Europe PMC syntax (author, journal, year, open access, preprints), fetch an abstract with MeSH terms by PMID, PMCID or DOI, and read the full text of open-access PMC articles page by page. Overlaps PubMed but adds preprints, full text and citation counts.
Questions you can ask Europe PMC
Type them into Kahubi’s chat once the source is connected.
“Find open-access papers since 2020 on microbiome and depression, sorted by citations.”
What comes back: Records with PMID, DOI, journal, year and citation count, then the full text of any open-access article.
“Give me the abstract and MeSH terms for PMID 34567890.”
What comes back: Title, authors, journal, identifiers, MeSH headings and the abstract.
What the assistant can do with it
The 3 tools this server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.
europepmc_searchSearch Europe PMC.
europepmc_get_abstractAbstract and core metadata for one record by PMID, PMCID or DOI.
europepmc_get_fulltextOpen-access full text of a PMC article (PMCID required), as plain text, paged with offset.
Good to know
- Hosted by Kahubi. Kahubi runs this server itself so it stays reliable enough for research use.
- Cited, checkable answers. Results are treated as retrieved material and cited with the source’s own identifiers, so you can open every record the answer relied on.
- Your files stay private. Only the search the assistant writes for your question is sent to Europe PMC.
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