Schema | Unpaywall MCP Server

Unpaywall MCP Server

Describes the environment variables required to run the server.

Name	Required	Description	Default
`UNPAYWALL_EMAIL`	Yes	Your email address used as Unpaywall API identifier

Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.

This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.

Features and capabilities supported by this server

Protocol revision2025-11-25

Capability	Details
`tools`	{ "listChanged": false }
`prompts`	{ "listChanged": false }
`resources`	{ "subscribe": false, "listChanged": false }
`experimental`	{}

Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions

Name	Description
unpaywall_lookupA	Look up open-access availability for a scholarly article by DOI. Returns OA status, best OA location (PDF/landing page URL, license), all OA locations, journal info, authors, and publication details. Args: doi: The DOI to look up (e.g. "10.1038/nature12373")
unpaywall_searchA	Search Unpaywall for scholarly articles by title. Searches across 120M+ article titles. Supports AND (default), quoted phrases, OR, and negation (-term). Returns up to 50 results per page. Args: query: Search terms for article titles (e.g. "machine learning") is_oa: Filter by open-access status (true = OA only, false = closed only, omit for all) page: Page number for pagination (50 results per page, default 1)
unpaywall_export_risA	Export the most recent unpaywall_lookup or unpaywall_search results as RIS format. Save output as a .ris file and import into Zotero: File -> Import.
unpaywall_export_bibtexA	Export the most recent unpaywall_lookup or unpaywall_search results as BibTeX format.

Interactive templates invoked by user choice

Name	Description
No prompts

Contextual data attached and managed by the client

Name	Description
No resources

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