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PubMed & Europe PMC

Biomedical literature: search, MeSH terms, related articles, citations and lawful full text.

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About this source

Search PubMed and Europe PMC, fetch abstracts and open-access full text, look up MeSH headings, find related articles, convert between PMID/PMCID/DOI and format citations. Preserves identifiers so every claim can be traced.

Questions you can ask PubMed & Europe PMC

Type them into Kahubi’s chat once the source is connected.

Find randomised controlled trials since 2020 on exercise interventions for depression in older adults.

What comes back: Articles with PMIDs, publication types, MeSH headings and abstracts.

Which MeSH terms should I use for a search on fatigue after COVID-19?

What comes back: Candidate MeSH headings with their tree positions, ready for a search string.

What the assistant can do with it

The 11 tools this server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.

  • pubmed_search_articles

    Search PubMed with full query syntax, filters, and date ranges.

  • pubmed_fetch_articles

    Fetch full article metadata by PubMed IDs.

  • pubmed_fetch_fulltext

    Fetch full-text articles from PubMed Central with structured sections, tables, and references.

  • pubmed_format_citations

    Get formatted citations for PubMed articles in one or more formats (apa, mla, bibtex, ris, vancouver).

  • pubmed_find_related

    Find articles related to a source article - similar content (similar), articles citing this one (cited_by), or articles this one cites (references).

  • pubmed_spell_check

    Spell-check a query and get NCBI's suggested correction.

  • pubmed_lookup_mesh

    Search and explore the MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) controlled vocabulary.

  • pubmed_lookup_citation

    Look up PubMed IDs from partial bibliographic citations.

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  • pubmed_convert_ids

    Convert between article identifiers (DOI, PMID, PMCID).

  • pubmed_europepmc_search

    Search Europe PMC, a broad open-access biomedical corpus.

  • pubmed_europepmc_fetch

    Fetch complete Europe PMC records - including the full, untruncated abstract - for records addressed by `source` plus `epmcId`.

Good to know

  • Community server. An open-source server maintained by the MCP community. Kahubi tests it with live queries before listing it and health-checks it regularly.
  • 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 PubMed & Europe PMC.

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