Paper Search MCP

MCPOfficialOpen SourceMIT71.3

by openags • Search & Retrieval

An MCP server that enables LLM agents to search and download academic papers from multiple sources (arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, etc.).

Example Use Cases

1
Search academic literature across multiple repositories (arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, Semantic Scholar) and receive consistent metadata.
2
Download PDFs of papers (for example from arXiv) and supply the documents as context to LLMs or downstream pipelines.
3
Integrate academic search and retrieval into MCP-capable clients like Claude Desktop for automated literature retrieval and summarization.

Description

A Python-based MCP server built to let agents search across multiple academic platforms and retrieve standardized paper metadata and PDFs. It provides asynchronous network tooling (httpx), a consistent Paper output format, and download helpers for sources like arXiv and PubMed. Designed for easy integration with MCP clients such as Claude Desktop and is extensible to add more platforms.

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Scanned 1 month(s) ago

Risk Level

MINIMAL

Read-only data retrieval, no side effects

Trust Score

D49/100

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Service TypeMCP

Pricing ModelFree

Capabilities0 Tools / 0 Prompts / 0 Resources

Owneropenags

CategorySearch & Retrieval

DependenciesStandalone