The MCP Scholarly Server allows you to search for academic articles across multiple scholarly platforms:
- Search arXiv for articles using keywords
- Search Google Scholar for articles using keywords
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:
Development
Building and Publishing
To prepare the package for distribution:
- Sync dependencies and update lockfile:
- Build package distributions:
This will create source and wheel distributions in the dist/
directory.
- Publish to PyPI:
Note: You'll need to set PyPI credentials via environment variables or command flags:
- Token:
--token
orUV_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:
Upon launching, the Inspector will display a URL that you can access in your browser to begin debugging.
Enables users to search for academic articles on platforms like arXiv using specific keywords, with plans to integrate more scholarly databases in the future.
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