Best HAL MCP Servers
HAL is an open archive where authors can deposit scholarly documents from all academic fields. It is managed by the Center for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD).
Why this server?
Enables searching and retrieving academic publications from HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne) via Patsnap's literature database.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceSearch 200M+ patents and scientific literature in natural language using PatSnap's global R&D intelligence database.285Apache 2.0Why this server?
Search and download (record-dependent) papers from the HAL open archive.
AlicenseBqualityBmaintenanceA Model Context Protocol server for searching and downloading academic papers from multiple free and public sources, enabling LLM-driven academic research workflows.57MITWhy this server?
Allows searching and retrieving open-access papers from HAL (hal.science), recording the licence verbatim from the deposit.
AlicenseAqualityBmaintenanceEnables LLM agents to search, fetch, and read legal open-access scientific papers with provenance tracking through a stable MCP tool contract.8MITWhy this server?
Allows searching HAL for publications, references, and structures, checking for duplicates, preparing and testing deposit drafts, submitting them via SWORD, and tracking their status in preprod or production environments.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceEnables searching HAL and preparing, validating, and submitting publication deposits via SWORD, with dry-run validation and explicit submission control.14MITWhy this server?
Searches the HAL French open academic archive for papers and metadata.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceUnifies nine upstream paper-search servers behind one endpoint, letting an agent search 40+ academic sources, fetch full texts, trace citation graphs, pull peer-review data, and run an end-to-end research pipeline. It auto-detects identifiers like arXiv IDs and DOIs, fans queries out across backends in parallel, and works without any credentials.6MITWhy this server?
Allows searching papers from HAL, an open-access archive for scientific documents.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceComprehensive MCP server for academic research workflows, enabling paper searching across multiple sources, manuscript processing with citation placeholders, search caching, and citation export.11MITWhy this server?
Resolves HAL identifiers to paper records and open-access PDF candidates.
AlicenseNot gradedqualityCmaintenanceEnables users to search academic sources, resolve identifiers, and download open-access PDFs only after license or open-access checks. Supports single and batch retrieval with audit sidecars and configurable copyright-safety policies.MITWhy this server?
Listed as a planned integration for searching and retrieving research papers from HAL open science repository
AlicenseNot gradedqualityFmaintenanceThe paperclip server enables searching and retrieving research papers from various sources29MITWhy this server?
Search, download, and read papers from HAL open archive.
AlicenseNot gradedqualityDmaintenanceEnables searching, downloading, and exporting academic papers from 20+ scholarly sources including arXiv, PubMed, and Semantic Scholar. Supports multi-source concurrent search, citation network tracing, and export to CSV, RIS, and BibTeX.1MIT