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Best Zotero MCP Servers
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Why this server?
Integrates with Zotero reference manager to search, browse, and annotate PDFs directly in the user's library, enabling AI-powered paper annotation, structured note creation, and database access for research workflows.
Why this server?
Provides tools for searching, reading, and managing Zotero library items, collections, annotations, and notes.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceEnables AI assistants to search, read, and manage Zotero references locally with customizable research workflows.Last updated94MITWhy this server?
Provides tools to search, retrieve details, read PDFs, and add items by DOI from a Zotero library via its local API.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceIntegrates with Zotero's local API to search, retrieve, read PDFs, and add items by DOI from your Zotero library.Last updated53MITWhy this server?
Allows exporting search results in CSL JSON format for use with Zotero, Pandoc, and other citation management tools.
AlicenseAqualityAmaintenanceAn MCP server for Japanese literature research that provides unified search across NDL, CiNii, J-STAGE, and other Japanese academic databases, with Skills to assist in search planning and result evaluation.Last updated251821MITWhy this server?
Integrates with Zotero via API to store citations, metadata, and PDFs, and to tag and annotate papers within the Zotero library.
AlicenseBqualityAmaintenanceAI-operable research workspace integrating Zotero, Obsidian, and NotebookLM. Search papers (arXiv/Semantic Scholar/PubMed/CrossRef), ingest into Zotero, sync per-paper notes to Obsidian, verify NotebookLM briefs. All three external tools optional.Last updated7622MITWhy this server?
Enables export of references in RIS and BibTeX formats for import into Zotero.
AlicenseBqualityBmaintenanceComprehensive MCP server for academic research workflows, enabling paper searching across multiple sources, manuscript processing with citation placeholders, search caching, and citation export.Last updated62MITWhy this server?
Provides tools for managing references, articles, and research data through the Zotero platform.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceA lightweight and customizable MCP server for Zotero that enables AI research tools to access and manage references through a simple API.Last updated95MITWhy this server?
Connects to your Zotero research library, allowing you to search for papers, articles and books, retrieve metadata, access full-text content, and browse collections, tags, and recent additions.
AlicenseAqualityBmaintenanceConnects your Zotero research library with Claude and other AI assistants via the Model Context Protocol, allowing you to search your library, access content, discuss papers, get summaries, and analyze citations.Last updated553,342MITWhy this server?
Allows Claude to interact with your Zotero library, including listing collections, retrieving items in collections, getting detailed information about papers, searching the library, and retrieving recently added papers.
AlicenseBqualityFmaintenanceAllows AI to interact with your Zotero library.Last updated5136160MIT