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Search Europe PMC for scientific literature and download open-access full texts and PDFs. Retrieve full-text XML/plain text by PMCID, get citation lists and bibliography.

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# Europe PMC Database

A skill for searching, downloading, and exploring open-access papers from
[Europe PMC](https://europepmc.org/) — a comprehensive, free life-science
literature database with over 43 million abstracts and 9 million full-text
articles.

## Prerequisites

1.  **`uv`**: Read the `uv` skill and follow its Setup instructions to ensure
    `uv` is installed and on PATH.
2.  **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