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PMC Open Access (PubMed Central) MCP Connector for Claude

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Access millions of open-access biomedical and life sciences research articles. Search metadata, convert IDs, and discover full-text resources.

8 tools Official Updated Oct 1, 2026 Official Vinkius Partner
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Connect to the PubMed Central (PMC) Open Access Subset to empower your AI agent with direct access to millions of peer-reviewed biomedical research articles. This server provides comprehensive tools for literature discovery, metadata harvesting, and identifier management.

What you can do

  • Metadata Harvesting — Use OAI-PMH protocols to list identifiers, metadata formats, and full records from the PMC repository.
  • Identifier Conversion — Seamlessly translate between PMCIDs, PMIDs, DOIs, and Manuscript IDs using the official PMC ID Converter.
  • Resource Discovery — Locate downloadable PDF, XML, and TGZ files for open-access articles to facilitate deep analysis.
  • Citation Export — Retrieve formatted citations for PubMed and PMC records to streamline academic writing and referencing.
  • Deep Record Inspection — Fetch specific article metadata or full-text records using unique OAI identifiers.

How it works

  1. Subscribe to this server
  2. Provide your NCBI API Key (Tool Name) and registered email
  3. Start querying the world's largest repository of life sciences literature directly from your AI client

Who is this for?

  • Researchers & Academics — Automate literature reviews, find full-text sources, and manage citations without manual searching.
  • Data Scientists — Harvest large-scale biomedical datasets for NLP, trend analysis, or knowledge graph construction.
  • Medical Professionals — Quickly find peer-reviewed evidence and convert clinical identifiers into accessible research papers.
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8 tools expose this connector's capabilities to your AI agent.

oai_identify

Identify the PMC OAI-PMH repository

oai_list_metadata_formats

Optionally filter by a specific identifier. List available metadata formats in PMC OAI-PMH

oai_list_records

List full OAI records for PMC articles

convert_ids

Returns JSON. Convert between PMCIDs, PMIDs, DOIs, and Manuscript IDs

oai_list_identifiers

Use metadataPrefix (e.g., pmc, pmc_fm, oai_dc). List OAI identifiers for PMC articles

export_citation

Export formatted citations for PubMed and PMC articles

oa_discover

) for PMC articles. Discover downloadable resources from the PMC Open Access Subset

oai_get_record

Get a specific OAI record from PMC

See how to talk to your AI agent using PMC Open Access (PubMed Central).

Convert the following PMIDs to PMCIDs: 34567890, 34567891.

I've converted those IDs for you. PMID 34567890 corresponds to PMCID PMC8451234 and DOI 10.1038/s41586-021-03850-x.

Find the PDF download link for PMCID PMC5334499.

I found the resources for PMC5334499. You can download the PDF directly from the PMC Open Access archive at the following URL: [URL].

List the metadata formats supported by the PMC OAI-PMH repository.

The PMC repository supports several metadata formats, including 'oai_dc' (Dublin Core), 'pmc' (Full-text XML), and 'pmc_fm' (Front matter only).

Use the `convert_ids` tool. Simply provide the PMCID (e.g., PMC5334499) and it will return the corresponding PMID, DOI, and other associated identifiers.

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