Best Open Access MCP Servers
Open Access is a movement and publishing model that makes research publications freely and openly available to anyone, allowing unrestricted use and distribution of scholarly work with proper attribution.
Why this server?
Supports downloading full text for open access articles available directly on PubMed
AlicenseAqualityDmaintenanceAn MCP server that provides access to PubMed articles through the Entrez API.2126 PyPI172MITWhy this server?
Accesses the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Open Access data, including images available under Open Access which can be added to the server's resources and displayed to users.
AlicenseAqualityBmaintenanceA MCP Server that lets user ask AI models to discover the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Adds the discovered art works as Resources on the server.4268 npm35MITWhy this server?
Provides filtering capability to find papers with open access PDFs, making it easier to discover freely available academic content.
AlicenseAqualityDmaintenanceEnables access to the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph API for searching and retrieving detailed information about academic papers, authors, citations, and references.113MITWhy this server?
Enables filtering and identification of scholarly works based on their open access status, supporting the discovery of freely available research.
AlicenseAqualityFmaintenanceEnables streamlined academic research and author disambiguation by providing AI agents with optimized access to the OpenAlex.org API. It supports searching for authors, resolving institutional affiliations, and retrieving scholarly works with detailed citation metrics.856MITWhy this server?
Provides access to the Smithsonian Institution's Open Access collections with over 3 million digitized objects, allowing AI assistants to search collections, retrieve detailed object metadata, check exhibition status, and access high-resolution images and 3D models from 19 Smithsonian museums.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceProvides AI assistants with access to search, explore, and analyze over 3 million collection objects from the Smithsonian Institution's museums. Enables finding objects currently on exhibit, retrieving detailed metadata, high-resolution images, and 3D models from America's national museums.5498 npm10MITWhy this server?
Enables searching and downloading open access papers from Springer Nature's OpenAccess API, bioRxiv, and medRxiv preprint servers.
AlicenseBqualityAmaintenanceEnables searching and downloading academic papers from 14 platforms including arXiv, PubMed, Google Scholar, Web of Science, Springer, and Sci-Hub with unified data format and intelligent rate limiting.21363 npm187MITWhy this server?
Provides filtering and search capabilities for open access scholarly works, including access status, URLs, and the ability to filter searches specifically for open access publications.
AlicenseAqualityBmaintenanceProvides access to OpenAlex's catalog of 240+ million scholarly works through 18 specialized tools for conducting literature reviews, analyzing citations, tracking research trends, and mapping the scholarly landscape including authors, institutions, and collaboration networks.31589 npm55MITWhy this server?
Integrates with various open-access sources and aggregators like DOAJ, CORE, and Unpaywall to find and download freely available research papers.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceA local academic tool that enables searching across nine academic sources, downloading PDFs, and performing AI-powered analysis of research papers. It also supports generating citation networks and recommending papers based on local workspace code.795MITWhy this server?
Supports identifying and retrieving the full text of academic papers published under Open Access licenses.
AlicenseAqualityAmaintenanceAllows users to search and retrieve academic papers, metadata, and citation counts from the IEEE Xplore digital library. It supports full-text search, author-specific queries, and publication tracking through the IEEE Xplore API.61MIT