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dsh-lit-search-mcp

dsh-lit-search-mcp

by Flan246

dsh-lit-search-mcp

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MCP server for academic literature search, citation formatting (GB/T 7714 / APA) and BibTeX generation — Crossref + OpenAlex + Semantic Scholar, merged and deduplicated, no API key needed.

Thin MCP wrapper over dsh-lit-search (also available as a DeepSeek Harness plugin, a CLI, and a SKILL.md).

Tools

Tool

What it does

lit_search

Keyword search merged across Crossref / OpenAlex / Semantic Scholar, deduplicated by DOI, with citation counts. Options: limit, year_from, year_to, sort (citations/date/relevance).

lit_cite

Format a citation for a DOI: gbt7714 (default, Chinese standard), gbt7714-numeric, apa, bibtex.

lit_bib

Batch BibTeX entries for a list of DOIs (reports which DOIs failed).

lit_related

Related works for a DOI via OpenAlex.

Related MCP server: BibTeX MCP Server

Install

Claude Code:

claude mcp add lit-search -- npx -y dsh-lit-search-mcp

Any MCP host (Cursor, ChatGPT, ...):

{ "mcpServers": { "lit-search": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "dsh-lit-search-mcp"] } } }

Requires Node.js ≥ 20. Listed on the official MCP Registry as io.github.Flan246/dsh-lit-search.

License

MIT

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