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PMC Search Papers

Search for full-text biomedical literature using the PMC (PubMed Central) API. PMC is the free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine. Uses `limit` (default 10); accepts `retmax` as an alias for `limit`.

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Schema

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

{
  "properties": {
    "article_type": {
      "description": "Article type filter (e.g., 'research-article', 'review', 'case-report'). Optional parameter to limit search to specific article types.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "date_from": {
      "description": "Start date for publication date filter (YYYY/MM/DD format). Optional parameter to limit search to papers published from this date onwards.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "date_to": {
      "description": "End date for publication date filter (YYYY/MM/DD format). Optional parameter to limit search to papers published up to this date.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "include_abstract": {
      "default": false,
      "description": "If true, attempts to enrich results with an abstract (best-effort) by fetching PubMed abstracts for items that have a PMID.",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "limit": {
      "default": 10,
      "description": "Maximum number of papers to return. This sets the maximum number of papers retrieved from PMC.",
      "maximum": 100,
      "minimum": 1,
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "query": {
      "description": "Search query for PMC papers. Use keywords separated by spaces to refine your search.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "retmax": {
      "description": "Alias for limit (NCBI eutils naming). If both retmax and limit are provided, limit is used.",
      "maximum": 100,
      "minimum": 1,
      "type": "integer"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default PMC Search Papers call

public-safeinput

{
  "include_abstract": false,
  "limit": 3,
  "query": "BRCA1",
  "retmax": 1
}

Expected response keys: success

Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.

Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_PMC_search_papers
Tool name: PMC_search_papers
Added: 2026-04-30 22:47Z
Tags: tooluniverse

PMC Search Papers

Livelast probed 2026-04-30 23:07Z· 121msCortexa

Schema

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

{ "properties": { "article_type": { "description": "Article type filter (e.g., 'research-article', 'review', 'case-report'). Optional parameter to limit search to specific article types.", "type": "string" }, "date_from": { "description": "Start date for publication date filter (YYYY/MM/DD format). Optional parameter to limit search to papers published from this date onwards.", "type": "string" }, "date_to": { "description": "End date for publication date filter (YYYY/MM/DD format). Optional parameter to limit search to papers published up to this date.", "type": "string" }, "include_abstract": { "default": false, "description": "If true, attempts to enrich results with an abstract (best-effort) by fetching PubMed abstracts for items that have a PMID.", "type": "boolean" }, "limit": { "default": 10, "description": "Maximum number of papers to return. This sets the maximum number of papers retrieved from PMC.", "maximum": 100, "minimum": 1, "type": "integer" }, "query": { "description": "Search query for PMC papers. Use keywords separated by spaces to refine your search.", "type": "string" }, "retmax": { "description": "Alias for limit (NCBI eutils naming). If both retmax and limit are provided, limit is used.", "maximum": 100, "minimum": 1, "type": "integer" } }, "required": [ "query" ], "type": "object" }