paper-lookup
Find scientific papers with a trail you can check.
What it does
Finds scholarly papers, citations, and accessible full text with enough retrieval provenance to repeat the search.
When to use it
Use for scholarly literature searches, paper identifier lookups, citation queries, and requests for abstracts, full text, or open-access PDFs.
How to use it
Give it a scholarly lookup request; it returns structured results with reproducible provenance and warnings about missing or partial results.
Uses
Good to know
- advertises something the task does not need
What you need · 5
The bundled retrieval and parsing scripts require Python 3.11+ and use only the standard library.
Enables higher PubMed and PMC request limits. Check the environment first, then read only this named variable from a working-directory .env if absent.
Access · 8
This skill
PubMed
Searches PubMed for biomedical papers
Europe PMC
Retrieves Europe PMC literature