EuropePMC Search Articles

Status

The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.

Last probed

1d ago

Last success

1d ago

Last latency

119ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "properties": {
    "enrich_missing_abstract": {
      "default": false,
      "description": "If true, best-effort fills missing abstracts by fetching Europe PMC fullTextXML (bounded to a few results).",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "extract_terms_from_fulltext": {
      "description": "Optional list of terms to extract from full text (open access only). When provided, automatically fetches fullTextXML for open-access articles and returns snippets around these terms. Terms are processed in batches of 5 internally, so any number of terms is accepted. Bounded to first 3 OA articles to avoid latency. Returns snippets in a 'fulltext_snippets' field for each article.",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "type": "array"
    },
    "fulltext_terms": {
      "description": "Optional list of terms that must occur in the indexed full text (Europe PMC BODY field). When provided, the tool adds a BODY:\"...\" clause and automatically enables `require_has_ft`.",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "type": "array"
    },
    "limit": {
      "default": 5,
      "description": "Number of articles to return. This sets the maximum number of articles retrieved from Europe PMC.",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "page_size": {
      "description": "Alias for limit — number of results to return",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "query": {
      "description": "Search query for Europe PMC. Supports Lucene-like fielded syntax (e.g., BODY:\"term\", INTRO:\"term\", METHODS:\"term\").",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "require_has_ft": {
      "default": false,
      "description": "If true, appends `HAS_FT:Y` to the query to restrict results to records where Europe PMC has full text indexed. This is NOT the same as having a link to free full text elsewhere (e.g., PMC) and is often the key reason body-only keywords cannot be found via Europe PMC search.",
      "type": "boolean"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

{
  "enrich_missing_abstract": false,
  "extract_terms_from_fulltext": [],
  "fulltext_terms": [],
  "limit": 3,
  "page_size": 1,
  "query": "BRCA1",
  "require_has_ft": false
}

Identifiers

Catalog ID

tu_EuropePMC_search_articles

Tool name

EuropePMC_search_articles

Added

2026-04-30 22:47Z

Tags

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