Paper Lookup

Use as a metadata and discovery fallback for papers, preprints, citations, DOIs, PMIDs, and open-access signals after local library routing is exhausted or when external paper discovery is explicitly needed.

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Paper Lookup

Use this skill for external literature discovery and metadata lookup.

Important routing boundary

Do not replace the existing library-first workflow.

Keep this order:

  • zotero first for paper/library retrieval
  • calibre second for review tasks needing a local document
  • paper-lookup for external metadata/discovery
  • getscipapers-requester for actual external retrieval when needed

Good use cases

  • find papers on a topic
  • resolve a DOI or PMID
  • check whether a paper has an open-access location
  • search major literature APIs before retrieval

High-value references

  • references/pubmed.md
  • references/pmc.md
  • references/arxiv.md
  • references/biorxiv.md
  • references/crossref.md
  • references/openalex.md
  • references/semantic-scholar.md
  • references/unpaywall.md

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