Click on "Deploy Server".
Wait a few minutes for the server to deploy. Once ready, it will show a "Started" state.
In the chat, type @ followed by the MCP server name and your instructions, e.g., "@europepmc-mcp-server search for recent papers on mRNA vaccines"
That's it! The server will respond to your query, and you can continue using it as needed.
Here is a step-by-step guide with screenshots.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Europe PMC — open-access biomedical literature: search across 45M+ abstracts, retrieve OA full-text (JATS XML), text-mined annotations, citations/references, and database cross-links. One of 100+ servers in the Bio MCP monorepo.
https://europepmc-mcp-server.quentincody.workers.dev/mcpLocal dev runs at http://localhost:8904/mcp (./scripts/dev-servers.sh europepmc).
Related MCP server: Literature MCP
europepmc_search — discover endpoints (Code Mode catalog search)
europepmc_execute — Code Mode: api.get(...) in a V8 isolate across two upstreams (Articles + Annotations APIs)
europepmc_query_data — SQL over large responses auto-staged into per-session SQLite
europepmc_get_schema — inspect a staged dataset's schema
Wraps two upstream bases in one isolate (routed in api-adapter.ts): the Articles RESTful API (/search, /{PMCID}/fullTextXML, /{source}/{id}/citations|references|databaseLinks) and the Annotations API (/annotations/annotationsByArticleIds|annotationsByEntity). Every _execute result carries a _meta.citation (Europe PMC / EMBL-EBI).
Key usage notes (also in the catalog notes): pagination is cursorMark (start *, thread nextCursorMark; the page param is ignored); format=json is injected automatically; full text is XML-only and auto-staged; metadata/abstracts are open + commercial-OK, but per-article full-text licenses are mixed (CC-BY vs CC-BY-NC/-ND) — gate any caching/redistribution on the per-article license field (present in resultType=core).
Archetype: catalog-only REST + Code Mode (dual upstream). No auth. Rate limit ~10 req/s per IP, shared across Cloudflare egress → be gentle.
Drift risk: low. Refresh cadence: quarterly catalog review. Known gaps: supplementaryFiles (binary ZIP) not exposed in v1; standalone textMinedTerms/fullTextUrlList are 404 upstream (use the Annotations API / the core result's inline fields).
./scripts/dev-servers.sh europepmc
pnpm --filter europepmc-mcp-server run deploySee docs/adding-mcp-servers.md and the build plan docs/plans/2026-06-26-evidence-genomics-mcp-servers.md.
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Search PubMed/Europe PMC, fetch articles and full text (PMC/EPMC/Unpaywall), citations, MeSH terms.
Search biomedical literature, get article details, find related articles, and explore MeSH terms
Search biomedical papers, inspect publication records, and traverse citation or semantic graphs.
Auditable MCP server for PubMed, Europe PMC, ClinicalTrials.gov, and bioRxiv/medRxiv queries