academic-tools-mcp

hunter-heidenreich/academic-tools-mcp

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MCP server giving LLM agents lean, identifier-routed tools to look up, read, and cross-reference academic papers across 7 providers (OpenAlex, arXiv, bioRxiv, ACL Anthology, Crossref, OpenCitations, Wikipedia).

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Quick Install

Copy the config for your editor. Some servers may need additional setup — check the README.

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "academic-tools-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "academic-tools-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Or install with pip: pip install academic-tools-mcp

README Excerpt

An [MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) server that gives LLM agents lean, focused tools for working with academic papers. Built on [FastMCP](https://github.com/jlowin/fastmcp). Look up paper metadata, authors, abstracts, citations, and BibTeX entries. Download and read full paper PDFs section-by-section. Explore reference and citation graphs. Cross-reference with Wikipedia.

Tools (20)

CROSSREF_MAILTOOPENALEX_API_KEYOPENALEX_MAILTOPDF_CONVERTERPDF_CONVERTER_VENVPDF_CONVERT_TIMEOUTWIKIPEDIA_MAILTOconvert_paperdownload_pdffind_in_paperget_authorget_paper_abstractget_paper_authorsget_paper_bibtexget_paper_citationsget_paper_citations_countget_paper_metadataget_paper_referencesget_paper_references_countget_paper_section

Topics

academic-researchai-agentsarxivbibtexbiorxivcrossreffastmcpllmllm-toolsmcpmodel-context-protocolopenalexopencitationspythonresearch-tools

academic-tools-mcp

Quick Install

README Excerpt

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