> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.kalarislabs.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# paper-lookup — AI agent skill for literature review

> Search 18 scholarly APIs for papers, preprints, citations, open-access full text, repository records, and journal OA status, and return results with repro…

# `paper-lookup`

> Search 18 scholarly APIs for papers, preprints, citations, open-access full text, repository records, and journal OA status, and return results with reproducible provenance. Covers PubMed, PMC, Europe PMC, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, CORE, Unpaywall, OpenCitations, PubTator3, Zenodo, Figshare, ROR, BioStudies, and DOAJ. Use when searching for papers, citations, DOI/PMID/arXiv lookups, abstracts, full text, open-access PDFs, preprints, citation graphs, author publications, biomedical entity annotations, deposited records (Zenodo, Figshare, BioStudies), institution ROR IDs, or any scholarly literature query. Triggers on mentions of any supported database or requests like "find papers on X", "look up this DOI", "who cites this paper", or "get me the PDF".

**Category:** [literature-review](/research-agent-skills/skills#literature-review) · **License:** MIT · **Version:** 2.2

## Install

```bash theme={null}
npx research-agent-skills install paper-lookup
npx skills add KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills --skill paper-lookup
```

## When to use it

Search 18 scholarly APIs for papers, preprints, citations, open-access full text, repository records, and journal OA status, and return results with reproducible provenance. Covers PubMed, PMC, Europe PMC, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, CORE, Unpaywall, OpenCitations, PubTator3, Zenodo, Figshare, ROR, BioStudies, and DOAJ. Use when searching for papers, citations, DOI/PMID/arXiv lookups, abstracts, full text, open-access PDFs, preprints, citation graphs, author publications, biomedical entity annotations, deposited records (Zenodo, Figshare, BioStudies), institution ROR IDs, or any scholarly literature query. Triggers on mentions of any supported database or requests like "find papers on X", "look up this DOI", "who cites this paper", or "get me the PDF".

## Full playbook

Read [SKILL.md](https://github.com/KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills/blob/main/skills/paper-lookup/SKILL.md) for the complete workflow, references and any scripts. The agent installer copies the full skill folder.


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