Literature Search Europepmc

This is Google DeepMind's skill for querying Europe PMC, a life sciences database with over 43 million abstracts and 9 million full-text articles. You can search, download, and explore open-access papers directly from Claude. It requires uv to be installed and will prompt you to acknowledge Europe PMC's terms on first use. The skill has solid adoption with 1.2K installs and comes from a repo with 2.4K stars, plus it's passed security audits from multiple providers. Useful if you're doing scientific research or literature reviews and want to pull papers without leaving your coding environment. Just remember to check individual paper licenses since not everything in the database has the same restrictions.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add google-deepmind/science-skills --skill literature-search-europepmc --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Europe PMC Database

A skill for searching, downloading, and exploring open-access papers from Europe PMC — a comprehensive, free life-science literature database with over 43 million abstracts and 9 million full-text articles.

Prerequisites

uv: Read the uv skill and follow its Setup instructions to ensure uv is installed and on PATH.
User Notification: If .licenses/literature_search_europepmc_LICENSE.txt does not already exist in the workspace root directory then (1) prominently notify the user to check the terms at https://europepmc.org/ and to always check the license of the papers retrieved by the skill for any restrictions, then (2) create the file recording the notification text and timestamp.