openaire.products.search
Search the OpenAIRE Graph — a research-literature graph aggregating metadata from thousands of repositories, journals, and archives worldwide — for publications, datasets, software, and other research outputs, e.g. "climate change adaptation" or "CRISPR gene editing". Filter by free-text query an...
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What openaire.products.search does on Apibase
AI agents call openaire.products.search to retrieve information from Apibase without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
page | integer | — | Page number for pagination (default 1). |
type | string | — | Filter by research output type: publication, dataset, software, or other (e.g. patents, workflows). |
query | string | — | Free-text search across title, description, and author (e.g. "climate change adaptation", "CRISPR gene editing"). |
page_size | integer | — | Results per page (default 10, max 50). |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why openaire.products.search is rated Low
Tool queries and retrieves immutable metadata from public research repositories with no side effects.
From the tool's definition Search research-literature graph for publications, datasets, software; returns metadata only.
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The rule that runs openaire.products.search safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Apibase, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For openaire.products.search, this is the rule to start with:
openaire.products.search is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Apibase, apply this rule, and every openaire.products.search call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about openaire.products.search
Search the OpenAIRE Graph — a research-literature graph aggregating metadata from thousands of repositories, journals, and archives worldwide — for publications, datasets, software, and other research outputs, e.g. "climate change adaptation" or "CRISPR gene editing". Filter by free-text query and/or output type. Returns each product's id (for use with openaire.product_details), title, authors, publication date, publisher, language, open access status, and DOI. Data: OpenAIRE Graph API, EU-funded open science infrastructure, no auth required. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apibase MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
openaire.products.search accepts 4 parameters: page, type, query, page_size. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Apibase MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for openaire.products.search: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Apibase. Nothing to install.
openaire.products.search is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the openaire.products.search rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for openaire.products.search. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
openaire.products.search is provided by the Apibase MCP server (apibase-mcp-client). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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