# mcp-simple-pubmed

> An MCP server that provides access to PubMed articles through Entrez API.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/mcp-simple-pubmed/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/andybrandt/mcp-simple-pubmed
- repository: https://github.com/andybrandt/mcp-simple-pubmed
- version: 0.1.16
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mcp-simple-pubmed

### Description (declared)

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# MCP Simple PubMed
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An MCP server that provides access to PubMed articles through the Entrez API.

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## Features

### Tools
- **Search PubMed** - Search the database using keywords, MeSH terms, author names, date ranges, and Boolean operators
- **Get Full Text** - Download full text when available (for open access articles in PubMed Central)
- **Access Abstracts** - Retrieve article abstracts and metadata via resource URIs

### Prompts (New in v0.1.14)
MCP Prompts help you construct effective PubMed searches:

- **Systematic Review Search** - Generate comprehensive search strategies with MeSH terms, synonyms, and date filters for systematic reviews
- **PICO Search** - Build clinical question searches using the PICO framework (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome)
- **Author Search** - Find all publications by a specific author with proper name formatting

These prompts guide the AI to build optimized PubMed queries, making it easier to conduct thorough literature searches.

### Notes

Please note that the tool returns XML-ized version of full text. It is however more useful for AIs than a "human readable" text would have been as it gives them additional information about document's structure. At least, this is what Claude 3.5 Sonnet said he prefers. 

Please also note that inability of this tool and possibly other tools to deliver a paper's full text may not be due to the fact that it is no…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- research.academic (1, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mcp-simple-pubmed/ (first seen 2026-09-10T04:23:02.440Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/mcp-simple-pubmed/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/mcp-simple-pubmed · ARD identifier urn:air::server:mcp-simple-pubmed