Scholarly literature

Europe PMC

Life-science literature: 40M+ abstracts, preprints and open-access full text.

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About Europe PMC

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 Europe PMC 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.

Europe PMC MCP tools

The 3 tools the Europe PMC server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.

  • europepmc_search

    Search Europe PMC.

  • europepmc_get_abstract

    Abstract and core metadata for one record by PMID, PMCID or DOI.

  • europepmc_get_fulltext

    Open-access full text of a PMC article (PMCID required), as plain text, paged with offset.

Using Europe PMC in Kahubi

  • 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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