Discipline packs
What each discipline pack contains and how to switch packs on or off.
ScholarMuse groups its tools into six discipline packs. A pack decides which tools your agents can use. Keeping only the packs you need makes it easier for your agent to pick the right tool.
- Open Capability packs.
- Switch a pack on or off.
Things to know:
- General research is always on. It cannot be switched off.
- New accounts start with General research and Life sciences & medicine switched on.
- You also choose packs when you approve a new agent in your browser.
- Switching a pack off takes effect at once. After switching one on, your agent may need to reconnect before it sees the new tools.
- If your agent calls a tool from a pack that is off, nothing is charged. It gets a message saying the pack is off and where to switch it on.
Always on.
| Capability | What it does | Sources |
|---|
| Search papers | One search across several literature databases, de-duplicated, with open-access full text where it exists | OpenAlex, PubMed / Europe PMC, arXiv, bioRxiv / medRxiv, DBLP, INSPIRE-HEP, ERIC, Unpaywall |
| Verify references | Checks each reference, flags papers that do not exist and fixes wrong DOIs, years and pages | Crossref, OpenAlex, PubMed / Europe PMC, arXiv |
| Retraction checker | Finds retracted papers, corrections and expressions of concern in a list of DOIs | Retraction Watch, Crossref |
| Journal checker | Open access status, DOAJ listing, publication charges, output and warning signs for a journal | OpenAlex, DOAJ |
| Find funded grants | Funded projects by topic, investigator or institution, with amounts and abstracts | NIH RePORTER, NSF Awards, UKRI Gateway to Research |
| Find datasets | Research datasets across repositories | DataCite, Zenodo, Dryad, Harvard Dataverse, Hugging Face Datasets |
| Economic & social statistics | Finds and fetches official data series | FRED, World Bank, IMF, OECD, Eurostat, BLS, US Census, Our World in Data |
| Scientific figure maker | Draws a figure from your description. See Scientific figures | A figure model, not a database |
| Graphical abstract maker | Turns an abstract into a one-panel visual summary. See Scientific figures | A figure model, not a database |
| Capability | What it does | Sources |
|---|
| Gene & protein lookup | Function, domains, pathways and interactions for a gene or protein | NCBI Gene, Ensembl, UniProt, InterPro, Reactome, STRING |
| Protein structures | Experimental and predicted structures | RCSB PDB, AlphaFold DB |
| Clinical trials search | Trials by condition, intervention, phase and status | ClinicalTrials.gov |
| Drugs & targets | Targets, bioactivity, adverse events and labels | ChEMBL, openFDA |
| Capability | What it does | Sources |
|---|
| Compounds & materials | Compound properties and identifiers; crystal structures, band gaps and stability of materials | PubChem, ChEBI, Materials Project, OQMD, Crystallography Open Database |
| Capability | What it does | Sources |
|---|
| Weather history for any place | Daily temperature, precipitation, humidity, wind and solar radiation for any coordinates since 1981 | NASA POWER |
| Air quality for any place | Daily mean PM2.5, PM10, NO2, O3, SO2 and CO from the monitoring stations nearest a point | OpenAQ |
| Earthquake & water data | Earthquake catalogues and stream-gauge readings | USGS |
| Species occurrence | Species occurrence records, filtered to openly licensed data | GBIF |
| Capability | What it does | Sources |
|---|
| Exoplanets & stars | Object lookups, confirmed exoplanets and star catalogue queries | NASA Exoplanet Archive, Gaia Archive, SIMBAD |
| Capability | What it does | Sources |
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| Historical archives | Historical newspapers, manuscripts and images; integer sequence lookup | Library of Congress, Europeana, OEIS |
The Capabilities page describes every capability with example requests, and the Sources page lists each data source with its licence. You can also ask your agent "What can you do with ScholarMuse?" for the current list.
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