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MCP server for scientific grounding: search arXiv, OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, PubMed — references/citations from paywalled journals via public metadata
Node.jsMIT★ 6No key
Anna's Archive MCP server and CLI for Claude, Cursor and Codex: search and download books and papers by title, author or DOI. Signs in with your secret key.
Node.jsMIT★ 3Few starsNeeds a key
Turn Google Search, Papers, and Codebases into an Automatic Local Knowledge Graph for AI Agents.
Node.jsMIT★ 291No key
Official MCP server for Lune Research: search top-tier papers and methodology guidance from any AI client.
Node.jsMIT★ 4Few starsNeeds a key
MCP server for a self-hosted SearXNG instance: web, image, news, video and music search plus page fetch.
Node.jsMIT★ 1Few starsNo key
Empower your agents to search, analyse, and explore academic papers from arXiv autonomouly.
MCPLink onlyFew stars
MCP server for the OpenAlex API — search 240M+ scholarly works, analyze citations, track research trends, and map collaboration networks
Node.jsMIT★ 57No key
MCP server for searching 600,000+ CS/AI research papers with citation graphs, full text, embeddings, and BibTeX. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP client. No signup required.
Node.jsMIT★ 12No key
Free academic paper search server for AI apps. Search, details, related papers and citations via OpenAlex.
Node.jsMITFew starsNo key
An MCP server that gives AI assistants direct access to academic research, enabling search, citations, and paper discovery across Semantic Scholar, PubMed, and arXiv.
Node.jsMIT★ 4Few starsNo key
Search arXiv, fetch paper metadata, and read full-text content via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.
Node.jsApache-2.0★ 6No key
A Node.js implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for searching and downloading academic papers from multiple sources, including **Web of Science**, arXiv, and more.
Node.jsMIT★ 187No key
One MCP server for Anna's Archive, Library Genesis, Sci-Hub & Z-Library — search books/papers, resolve download links, fetch files. No keys, no login.
Node.jsMIT★ 22No key
Find literature, trace citations, discover authors, institutions, and fields with a human-friendly OpenAlex CLI and skill for fast research lookup
SkillMIT★ 3Few starsNo key
Search INSPIRE-HEP papers, authors, experiments, HEPData records; get citation metrics and BibTeX via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.
Node.jsApache-2.0★ 1Few starsNo key
Open-source governed, local-first memory control plane for AI agents and teams. arXiv:2608.08253
SkillAGPL-3.0★ 234No key
Grounded, cited answers from your NotebookLM notebooks inside Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and pi
SkillMIT★ 1Few starsNo key
MCP server for Google Scholar: search papers with Scholar operators, year ranges, cited-by and all-versions lookups, plus citations in five styles with BibTeX export. 1,000 free credits every month.
Node.jsMIT★ 10Needs a key
Search GBIF species taxonomy, occurrence records, datasets, and publishers via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.
Node.jsApache-2.0★ 1Few starsNo key
One MCP search across open-access museum collections (The Met, Rijksmuseum, Smithsonian, Cleveland, AIC, SMK, Walters, Wellcome, Wikimedia Commons, Europeana, and growing) with strict per-museum right
Node.jsMIT★ 14No key
🚀 AI Books MCP Server - Extend LLM context 15-60× via gravitational memory | Official MCP server for Claude Code & Anthropic
Node.jsMIT★ 4Few starsNo key
Search the PubChem chemical database for compounds, properties, safety data, bioactivity, cross-references, and entity summaries via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.
Node.jsApache-2.0★ 10No key
MCP server for measuring LLM citation visibility across Perplexity, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Bing, and Google AI Overviews. 12 tools, BYO keys, self-hosted, no telemetry.
Node.jsMIT★ 9No key
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