Pubmed Europepmc Fetch
pubmed_europepmc_fetchFetch complete Europe PMC records by source and ID to read full, untruncated abstracts, including preprint, patent, and Agricola entries that lack PMIDs or DOIs.
Instructions
Fetch complete Europe PMC records — including the full, untruncated abstract — addressed as records: [{ source, epmcId }], an array even for one record. Pairs with pubmed_europepmc_search, which returns bounded abstractSnippet values and flags cut ones with abstractTruncated: true; copy each hit's source and epmcId into records here to read the whole abstract. This is the retrieval path for preprint (PPR), patent (PAT), and Agricola (AGR) records, which frequently carry no PMID and no DOI, so pubmed_fetch_articles and pubmed_fetch_fulltext cannot address them. Up to 25 records per call. Set maxResponseCharacters to bound the whole response: records past the ceiling are deferred whole and listed in deferred.records for a follow-up call.
Tool call template
Replace each placeholder with a value matching the input schema. Only required parameters are included; add optional parameters as needed.
{
"id": 1,
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"arguments": {
"records": "<records>"
},
"name": "pubmed_europepmc_fetch"
}
}Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| records | Yes | Records to retrieve, each addressed by the `source` and `epmcId` of a `pubmed_europepmc_search` hit. The whole batch resolves in one Europe PMC request. | |
| maxResponseCharacters | No | Opt-in ceiling for the whole response, in characters. Each record is measured as the JSON record it is returned as — title, authors, journal, abstract, identifiers, every field it carries. Records are kept in the order Europe PMC returned them until the next one would cross the ceiling; that record and the rest are deferred whole (never partially populated) and listed in `deferred.records`. Response envelope fields — `notFound`, `deferred` itself — are not counted. Omit to return every resolved record. |
Output Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| error | No | Present when the call failed. Absent on success. | |
| notice | No | Guidance when one or more requested records could not be resolved, or when `maxResponseCharacters` deferred records — naming how to retrieve them. Absent when every requested record came back. | |
| records | No | Resolved records, in the order Europe PMC returned them. Under a `maxResponseCharacters` budget, only the leading records that fit; `deferred.records` lists the rest. | |
| deferred | No | Continuation state for records the whole-response budget withheld. Present only when `maxResponseCharacters` deferred at least one record. | |
| notFound | No | Requested `source` + `epmcId` pairs Europe PMC returned no record for. Reported in full regardless of where a `maxResponseCharacters` cut lands — these are misses, not deferrals. | |
| truncated | No | True when `maxResponseCharacters` withheld at least one resolved record. Absent when the response carries every record that resolved. The continuation state is in `deferred`. |