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crossref-mcp

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Server Configuration

Describes the environment variables required to run the server.

Name	Required	Description	Default
`CROSSREF_MAILTO`	No	Email address to use for Crossref polite pool (recommended but optional)

Instructions

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.

Capabilities

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`	{}

Tools

Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions

Name Description

Name	Description
get_work_by_doiA	Retrieve bibliographic metadata for a single work by its DOI. Args: doi: The Digital Object Identifier, e.g. "10.1145/3292500.3330701". A full URL such as "https://doi.org/10.1145/..." is also accepted. Returns: A dictionary of the work's metadata (title, authors, journal, year, DOI, abstract when available, citation counts, etc.).
search_worksA	Search Crossref for works by free text, title, and/or author. At least one of `query`, `title`, or `author` must be provided. Args: query: Free-text bibliographic search across all fields. title: Restrict the search to the work's title. author: Restrict the search to author names. rows: Number of results to return (1-50, default 5). Returns: A dictionary with `total_results` and a `works` list of metadata dictionaries, each in the same shape as `get_work_by_doi`.

get_work_by_doiA

Retrieve bibliographic metadata for a single work by its DOI.

Args: doi: The Digital Object Identifier, e.g. "10.1145/3292500.3330701". A full URL such as "https://doi.org/10.1145/..." is also accepted.

Returns: A dictionary of the work's metadata (title, authors, journal, year, DOI, abstract when available, citation counts, etc.).

search_worksA

Search Crossref for works by free text, title, and/or author.

At least one of query, title, or author must be provided.

Args: query: Free-text bibliographic search across all fields. title: Restrict the search to the work's title. author: Restrict the search to author names. rows: Number of results to return (1-50, default 5).

Returns: A dictionary with total_results and a works list of metadata dictionaries, each in the same shape as get_work_by_doi.

Prompts

Interactive templates invoked by user choice

Name	Description
No prompts

Resources

Contextual data attached and managed by the client

Name	Description
No resources

Server Configuration
Instructions
Capabilities
Tools
Prompts
Resources

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