Best Elsevier MCP Servers
Elsevier is a global information analytics business that helps institutions and professionals advance healthcare, open science, and improve performance.
Why this server?
Provides optional full-text retrieval through Elsevier's TDM API, enabling access to paywalled articles when configured.
AlicenseAqualityBmaintenanceEnables deep, recursive multi-source scientific literature research across 8+ academic databases, producing cited, evidence-graded reports with red-team review and cost details through an outline-first, user-confirmed workflow.181MITWhy this server?
Integrates with Elsevier APIs for institutional access to scholarly literature and citation data.
AlicenseAqualityDmaintenanceAutomates academic research from multi-source search to APA 7 formatted .docx output.14MITWhy this server?
Enables downloading papers from Elsevier ScienceDirect through the institution's WebVPN, handling pdfDownload/pdfft endpoints and JavaScript challenges via a real browser.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceEnables AI agents to download institutionally entitled paywalled papers from IEEE Xplore and Elsevier ScienceDirect through Hainan University WebVPN, check session status, and save PDFs via stdio MCP tools.31MITWhy this server?
Enables downloading supported Elsevier full-text papers via the Elsevier API, subject to API credentials, institutional entitlements, and TDM rules, to build a local searchable literature index.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceEnables an AI assistant to search scientific literature across OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar, download supported Elsevier and Springer Nature full texts, and build a local searchable index so questions can be answered with citations to original paper passages. It runs locally over stdio with CPU-based embeddings and needs no Qdrant account, Docker, GPU, or LLM API key of its own.11MITWhy this server?
Uses an Elsevier Developer Portal API key to access Elsevier's Scopus and ScienceDirect data, including full-text search for terms inside the body of Elsevier papers and journal quality metrics (SJR, CiteScore, quartiles). Includes a diagnose_connection tool that reports which tools a given Elsevier/Scopus subscription supports and why others fail, and a quota status check.
AlicenseBqualityAmaintenanceEnables AI assistants such as Claude to search academic literature, retrieve abstracts and full text, trace citations and multi-generation citation networks, and analyze author profiles, journal quality and bibliometrics from a conversation. It works with Scopus by default and can run the same analyses against OpenAlex without a subscription.3585 PyPIMITWhy this server?
Checks manuscripts against Elsevier journal guidelines and style requirements, including reference formatting and submission readiness.
AlicenseAqualityAmaintenanceOffline, bias-aware academic integrity checker exposed over MCP: plagiarism, AI-text detection, Crossref citation verification and publisher-style guideline checks.717MITWhy this server?
Download PDF files of papers from Elsevier (DOI prefix 10.1016).
AlicenseAqualityDmaintenanceEnables searching academic papers on Semantic Scholar and downloading their PDFs, with support for multiple publishers.22GPL 3.0Why this server?
Search Elsevier databases through the Primo Central Index, retrieving articles, citations, and full records from Elsevier resources.
AlicenseAqualityDmaintenanceMCP server for searching Ex Libris Primo library catalogues and subscribed databases, enabling search, record retrieval, autocomplete, citation generation, and export to BibTeX, RIS, or CSV.58MITWhy this server?
Provides tools for searching and retrieving academic documents, journals, subject classifications, and author profiles from Elsevier's Scopus and ScienceDirect databases via the Elsevier Developer APIs.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceMCP server for the Elsevier Developer APIs. Gives Claude Code access to Scopus, ScienceDirect, and other Elsevier academic databases.612MIT