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Europe PMC RESTful Web Service

Not stated as a total record count on the checked pages; a sample search for "maritime" returned hitCount 48,304 (API version 6.9, checked 2026-11-05). The europepmc.org site returned HTTP 403 to a plain curl request but HTTP 200 in a browser; the REST API host (ebi.ac.uk) answered the same keyless query with HTTP 200.

Open europepmc.org
Signal Scoredraft model
85
Access
No key · none
20
Licence clarity
Provider terms · terms linked
13
Evidence
3 source links checked
15
Freshness
verified 2026-11-06
20
Documentation
docs · limits · coverage · attribution
17

// Terms and limits

Access
none
Free tier
Free public keyless search via the REST API (for example /search); no account or key required.
Rate limits
Not stated
Licence
Provider termsterms
Licence note
EMBL-EBI's Terms of Use (revised 14 October 2026) say EMBL-EBI "promotes open science through its mission to provide freely available Data Resources and Tools," and that "Where EMBL-EBI presents scientific data generated by others, EMBL-EBI imposes no additional restriction on the use of the contributed data than those provided by the data owner, unless otherwise specified in these Terms of Use." Search is free to query with no key, subject to those Provider terms and each upstream data owner's terms; article full texts carry their own publishers'/authors' licences, which vary by article. "EMBL-EBI expects attribution (e.g. in publications, services or products) for the use of any of its Data Resources and Tools in accordance with good scientific practice." Distinct from the already-listed NCBI E-utilities (PubMed) entry, which this service complements with a European full-text OA subset, text-mined annotations, citations and grants.
Attribution
EMBL-EBI expects attribution (e.g. in publications, services or products) for use of its Data Resources and Tools in accordance with good scientific practice; also follow each upstream article owner's terms.

// Evidence · verified 2026-11-06

  1. 01europepmc.org/RestfulWebService
  2. 02www.ebi.ac.uk/about/terms-of-use
  3. 03www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/search?query=maritime&format=json

// Good for

research-grey-literaturepapersbiomedicalcitationsopen-accessapi

// The same record, for agents

Request · get_entry
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_entry",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "europe-pmc-rest-api"
    }
  }
}
Reply · selected fields
{
  "name": "Europe PMC RESTful Web Service",
  "slug": "europe-pmc-rest-api",
  "domain": "Research & Grey Literature",
  "type": "Dataset",
  "badge": "Free",
  "auth": "none",
  "rateLimits": "Not stated",
  "license": "Provider terms",
  "licenseUrl": "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/terms-of-use",
  "lastVerified": "2026-11-06",
  "evidenceUrls": [
    "https://europepmc.org/RestfulWebService",
    "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/terms-of-use",
    "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/search?query=maritime&format=json"
  ],
  "tasks": [
    "research-grey-literature",
    "papers",
    "biomedical",
    "citations",
    "open-access",
    "api"
  ],
  "providerUrl": "https://europepmc.org/RestfulWebService"
}

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