`search_publications`

Pack: openaire · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/openaire/mcp

“Find papers about [topic]” / “search EU / open-access research on [X]” / “publications by [funder]” / “academic articles on [Y]” — search scholarly publications (articles, preprints, theses, books) via OpenAIRE (the EU’s open-science aggregator; covers EC / NIH / NSF / Wellcome Trust funded research). Filter by funder, country, year range, open-access status. Use for academic literature search with funder/policy context.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`funder`	string	no	Funder short name — e.g. “EC”, “NIH”, “NSF”, “WT”
`country`	string	no	Country code — ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
`from_year`	string	no	Earliest publication year (YYYY)
`to_year`	string	no	Latest publication year (YYYY)
`open_access`	boolean	no	Restrict to open-access publications

Example call

Arguments

{
  "query": "machine learning cancer detection",
  "open_access": true
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/openaire/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_publications","arguments":{"query":"machine learning cancer detection","open_access":true}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('search_publications', {
  "query": "machine learning cancer detection",
  "open_access": true
});

More examples

{
  "query": "climate change impact",
  "funder": "EC",
  "country": "DE",
  "from_year": "2020",
  "to_year": "2023"
}

Response shape

Always returns: query, total, page, page_size, count, results

Field	Type	Description
`query`	string	The search query that was executed
`total`	number \| null	Total number of matching publications
`page`	number \| null	Current page number (1-based)
`page_size`	number \| null	Number of results per page
`count`	number	Number of results in this response
`results`	array	Array of publication objects

Full JSON Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The search query that was executed"
    },
    "total": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Total number of matching publications"
    },
    "page": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Current page number (1-based)"
    },
    "page_size": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Number of results per page"
    },
    "count": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Number of results in this response"
    },
    "results": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Array of publication objects",
      "items": {
        "type": "object"
      }
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "query",
    "total",
    "page",
    "page_size",
    "count",
    "results"
  ]
}

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openaire": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/openaire/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

search_publications