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Literature Search Europepmc

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Access to open-access life science literature, citations, and full-text files from Europe PMC.

What it does

Integrating Literature Search Europepmc allows your assistant to programmatically query millions of life science articles. It manages the communication with the database, ensuring that only open-access materials are retrieved, and handles technical constraints like rate limiting automatically.

By adding this skill, your assistant gains the ability to gather specific metadata or retrieve full-text documents directly into your workspace. It bridges the gap between general web searches and structured, reliable scientific databases, organizing findings into standard formats for further review.

When it earns its place

Reach for it when…

Use this when you need to verify scientific claims, build a bibliography from specific identifiers, or retrieve full-text content for research papers that are available under open-access terms.

Look elsewhere when…

This tool is not intended for searching general web content or non-scientific publications. It will not access subscription-only journals or paywalled material, so it is ineffective for searching the entirety of academic publishing.

What to say to use it

You never invoke a skill directly — the assistant picks it up when your request matches what it covers. These are the kinds of things that do that.

  • Find open access papers about CRISPR gene editing
  • Get the full text for this article using its PMCID
  • List the most cited papers by this researcher in 2023
  • Search for recent studies on protein folding published in journals

Install it

Install for all your projects

Copy the skill directory into your personal skills folder. Claude picks it up on its own the next time your request matches what it does — there is nothing to enable.

bash
git clone --depth 1 --branch main https://github.com/google-deepmind/science-skills.git /tmp/science-skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/science-skills/skills/literature_search_europepmc ~/.claude/skills/literature-search-europepmc

Install for one project only

Put it in the project's own skills folder instead, so it can be committed and shared with everyone working on that repository.

bash
cp -r /tmp/science-skills/skills/literature_search_europepmc .claude/skills/literature-search-europepmc

If a skill of the same name exists in both places, the personal one wins.

Installing on Claude.ai or through the API instead? The full guide covers every surface.

Pair it with an MCP server

Literature Search Europepmc changes how the work is done. These servers change what Claude can reach while doing it.

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