# `pubmed__pubmed_europepmc_fetch`
**Pubmed Europepmc Fetch**
Fetch complete Europe PMC records — including the full, untruncated abstract — for records addressed by \`source\` plus \`epmcId\`. Pairs with \`pubmed_europepmc_search\`, which returns bounded \`abstractSnippet\` values and flags cut ones with \`abstractTruncated: true\`; pass those hits' \`source\` and \`epmcId\` 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.
- Server: [PubMed](https://gateway.mcpharbor.dev/docs/servers/pubmed) (`dev.mcpharbor.gateway/pubmed`)
- Price per call: $0.0001 (100 micro-USD); only tools/call is charged
- Endpoint: `https://gateway.mcpharbor.dev/mcp` or `https://gateway.mcpharbor.dev/mcp/pubmed`
- Upstream tool: exposed by the provider; called through this gateway as `pubmed__pubmed_europepmc_fetch`
- Provider terms: (verified 2026-09-19)
- Upstream API documentation:
- Rate limit: 150 requests per minute
- Attribution required: NCBI's Disclaimer and Copyright notice must be evident to users of your product
## Parameters
- `records` (array, required): 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.
## Example call
Request headers and body:
```http
POST /mcp HTTP/1.1
Host: gateway.mcpharbor.dev
Authorization: Bearer
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json, text/event-stream
MCP-Protocol-Version: 2026-07-28
Mcp-Method: tools/call
Mcp-Name: pubmed__pubmed_europepmc_fetch
```
```json
{
"id": 1,
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"_meta": {
"io.modelcontextprotocol/clientCapabilities": {},
"io.modelcontextprotocol/clientInfo": {
"name": "example-agent",
"version": "1.0.0"
},
"io.modelcontextprotocol/protocolVersion": "2026-07-28"
},
"arguments": {
"records": []
},
"name": "pubmed__pubmed_europepmc_fetch"
}
}
```
A successful response:
```json
{
"id": 1,
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"result": {
"_meta": {
"dev.mcpharbor.gateway/call": {
"chargedMicroUsd": 100,
"id": ""
}
},
"content": [
{
"text": "",
"type": "text"
}
],
"resultType": "complete"
}
}
```
This call costs $0.0001 (100 micro-USD). Reading this page and listing the tool cost nothing.
The `dev.mcpharbor.gateway/call` record in the result is the receipt for that charge. Each
POST is metered separately, so sending the same call again buys another one: see
[agent.txt](https://gateway.mcpharbor.dev/agent.txt), section 7, before retrying.
## Attribution
This provider requires the attribution below wherever you use results from its tools.
Reproduce it verbatim:
> NCBI's Disclaimer and Copyright notice must be evident to users of your product
## Tool definition
Exactly as `tools/list` returns it (free):
```json
{
"_meta": {
"dev.mcpharbor.gateway/pricing": {
"currency": "USD",
"pricePerCallMicroUsd": 100
}
},
"annotations": {
"openWorldHint": true,
"readOnlyHint": true
},
"description": "Fetch complete Europe PMC records — including the full, untruncated abstract — for records addressed by `source` plus `epmcId`. Pairs with `pubmed_europepmc_search`, which returns bounded `abstractSnippet` values and flags cut ones with `abstractTruncated: true`; pass those hits' `source` and `epmcId` here to read the whole abstract. This is the retrieval path for preprint (`PPR`), patent (`PAT`), and Agricola (`AGR`) records, which frequently carry no PMID and no DOI, so `pubmed_fetch_articles` and `pubmed_fetch_fulltext` cannot address them. Up to 25 records per call.",
"inputSchema": {
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"records": {
"description": "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.",
"items": {
"description": "One record address: the Europe PMC source corpus plus its id within that corpus",
"properties": {
"epmcId": {
"description": "Europe PMC's own record id within that source. Copy it from the search hit's `epmcId` — for `MED` records this is the PMID; for the other sources it is an EPMC-native accession.",
"maxLength": 64,
"pattern": "^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._-]*$",
"type": "string"
},
"source": {
"description": "Europe PMC source corpus — `MED` (PubMed), `PMC` (PubMed Central), `PPR` (preprint), `PAT` (patent), `AGR` (Agricola). Copy it from the search hit's `source`. `PMC` paired with a PMCID resolves whether or not the article is also indexed in PubMed, and a PubMed-indexed one comes back as its canonical `MED` record carrying that PMCID in `pmcId`.",
"enum": [
"MED",
"PMC",
"PPR",
"PAT",
"AGR"
],
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"source",
"epmcId"
],
"type": "object"
},
"maxItems": 25,
"minItems": 1,
"type": "array"
}
},
"required": [
"records"
],
"type": "object"
},
"name": "pubmed__pubmed_europepmc_fetch",
"outputSchema": {
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"additionalProperties": false,
"anyOf": [
{
"not": {
"required": [
"error"
]
},
"required": [
"records"
]
},
{
"required": [
"error"
]
}
],
"properties": {
"error": {
"additionalProperties": {},
"description": "Present when the call failed. Absent on success.",
"properties": {
"code": {
"description": "JSON-RPC error code for this failure.",
"maximum": 9007199254740991,
"minimum": -9007199254740991,
"type": "integer"
},
"data": {
"additionalProperties": {},
"properties": {
"reason": {
"description": "Machine-readable failure mode. Declared by this tool: `europepmc_unreachable`: Europe PMC was unreachable after all retry attempts. `europepmc_invalid_response`: Europe PMC returned a body that could not be parsed (invalid JSON or XML). `europepmc_invalid_input`: Europe PMC rejected the request input (empty query, unknown sort field, malformed parameter). `europepmc_disabled`: Europe PMC service is disabled via EUROPEPMC_ENABLED=false. Other values are possible when a failure originates below the handler.",
"examples": [
"europepmc_unreachable",
"europepmc_invalid_response",
"europepmc_invalid_input",
"europepmc_disabled"
],
"type": "string"
},
"recovery": {
"additionalProperties": {},
"description": "Actionable next step for the caller.",
"properties": {
"hint": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"hint"
],
"type": "object"
},
"retryable": {
"description": "Whether retrying may succeed.",
"type": "boolean"
}
},
"type": "object"
},
"message": {
"description": "Human-readable description of what went wrong.",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"code",
"message"
],
"type": "object"
},
"notFound": {
"description": "Requested `source` + `epmcId` pairs Europe PMC returned no record for",
"items": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"description": "One record address: the Europe PMC source corpus plus its id within that corpus",
"properties": {
"epmcId": {
"description": "Europe PMC's own record id within that source. Copy it from the search hit's `epmcId` — for `MED` records this is the PMID; for the other sources it is an EPMC-native accession.",
"maxLength": 64,
"pattern": "^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._-]*$",
"type": "string"
},
"source": {
"description": "Europe PMC source corpus — `MED` (PubMed), `PMC` (PubMed Central), `PPR` (preprint), `PAT` (patent), `AGR` (Agricola). Copy it from the search hit's `source`. `PMC` paired with a PMCID resolves whether or not the article is also indexed in PubMed, and a PubMed-indexed one comes back as its canonical `MED` record carrying that PMCID in `pmcId`.",
"enum": [
"MED",
"PMC",
"PPR",
"PAT",
"AGR"
],
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"source",
"epmcId"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": "array"
},
"notice": {
"description": "Guidance when one or more requested records could not be resolved. Absent when every record came back.",
"type": "string"
},
"records": {
"description": "Resolved records, in the order Europe PMC returned them",
"items": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"description": "Complete Europe PMC record",
"properties": {
"abstract": {
"description": "Complete abstract as display-ready plain text — JATS/HTML markup stripped and HTML entities decoded, never truncated. Omitted when Europe PMC carries no abstract for the record.",
"type": "string"
},
"authors": {
"description": "Formatted author string as display-ready plain text — JATS/HTML markup stripped and HTML entities decoded.",
"type": "string"
},
"citedByCount": {
"description": "Citation count reported by Europe PMC",
"type": "number"
},
"doi": {
"description": "DOI when present, cased as Europe PMC reports it. DOIs are case-insensitive by spec and no case normalization is applied here, so the same DOI can arrive in a different case from `pubmed_fetch_articles` (Europe PMC `10.1056/nejmoa2212948`, NCBI `10.1056/NEJMoa2212948`) — a byte-for-byte comparison across the two reports a false mismatch.",
"type": "string"
},
"epmcId": {
"description": "Europe PMC's internal record id",
"type": "string"
},
"epmcUrl": {
"description": "Europe PMC article URL",
"type": "string"
},
"firstPublicationDate": {
"description": "First publication date (ISO YYYY-MM-DD)",
"type": "string"
},
"hasFullTextXml": {
"description": "Whether Europe PMC publishes a fullTextXML for this record. Derived from `inPMC` — only records with a PMC counterpart have JATS via Europe PMC.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"isOpenAccess": {
"description": "Whether Europe PMC reports the record as open access",
"type": "boolean"
},
"journal": {
"description": "Journal title as display-ready plain text — JATS/HTML markup stripped and HTML entities decoded.",
"type": "string"
},
"pmcId": {
"description": "PMC ID when present in PMC",
"type": "string"
},
"pmid": {
"description": "PMID when present in PubMed",
"type": "string"
},
"pubYear": {
"description": "Publication year",
"type": "string"
},
"source": {
"description": "Europe PMC source the record was resolved from",
"enum": [
"MED",
"PMC",
"PPR",
"PAT",
"AGR"
],
"type": "string"
},
"title": {
"description": "Record title as display-ready plain text — JATS/HTML markup stripped and HTML entities decoded.",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"source",
"epmcId",
"epmcUrl"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": "array"
}
},
"type": "object"
},
"title": "Pubmed Europepmc Fetch"
}
```