MCP Scholarly Server

by adityak74
MIT License
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  • Apple

Integrations

  • Allows searching for academic articles on arXiv based on keywords, providing access to scientific papers and research publications across various fields.

  • Enables access to content from GitHub repositories, specifically for displaying images and assets as shown in the README.

mcp-scholarly MCP server

A MCP server to search for accurate academic articles. More scholarly vendors will be added soon.

Components

Tools

The server implements one tool:

  • search-arxiv: Search arxiv for articles related to the given keyword.
    • Takes "keyword" as required string arguments

Quickstart

Install

Claude Desktop

On MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

or if you are using Docker

Installing via Smithery

To install mcp-scholarly for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install mcp-scholarly --client claude

Development

Building and Publishing

To prepare the package for distribution:

  1. Sync dependencies and update lockfile:
uv sync
  1. Build package distributions:
uv build

This will create source and wheel distributions in the dist/ directory.

  1. Publish to PyPI:
uv publish

Note: You'll need to set PyPI credentials via environment variables or command flags:

  • Token: --token or UV_PUBLISH_TOKEN
  • Or username/password: --username/UV_PUBLISH_USERNAME and --password/UV_PUBLISH_PASSWORD

Debugging

Since MCP servers run over stdio, debugging can be challenging. For the best debugging experience, we strongly recommend using the MCP Inspector.

You can launch the MCP Inspector via npm with this command:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv --directory /Users/adityakarnam/PycharmProjects/mcp-scholarly/mcp-scholarly run mcp-scholarly

Upon launching, the Inspector will display a URL that you can access in your browser to begin debugging.

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security – no known vulnerabilities
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license - permissive license
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quality - confirmed to work

hybrid server

The server is able to function both locally and remotely, depending on the configuration or use case.

Enables users to search for academic articles on platforms like arXiv using specific keywords, with plans to integrate more scholarly databases in the future.

  1. Components
    1. Tools
  2. Quickstart
    1. Install
    2. Installing via Smithery
  3. Development
    1. Building and Publishing
    2. Debugging

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