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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?
Allows fetching paper metadata, full text, and annotations from Zotero, attaching notes with backlinks, updating tags, and listing papers by collection or tag.
Why this server?
Provides tools for interacting with a local Zotero library, including searching items, reading PDF full text, creating and managing collections, adding references, attaching local PDFs, managing trash, and exporting items.
AlicenseAqualityBmaintenanceMCP server for Zotero 10+. Read and write your library entirely offline through Zotero's native local API. No plugin, no API key, no cloud.2868 npm5MITWhy this server?
Provides citation management for Zotero in Word documents, including detection and integrity checking of Zotero citation fields and support for Zotero-based citations.
AlicenseAqualityAmaintenanceEnables full-featured editing of Word .docx files through natural language, including merge-aware table operations, bulk cell edits, footnotes/endnotes, TOC management, tracked changes, and document comparison.298AGPL 3.0Why this server?
Connects AI agents to a local Zotero library to search items, browse collections, retrieve metadata, and manage academic papers.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceA lightweight MCP server that connects AI agents to a local Zotero library for paper management and metadata retrieval. It enables users to search titles and abstracts, browse collections, and automatically ingest papers via arXiv ID or DOI with PDF attachments.815MITWhy this server?
Provides tools for managing a Zotero library, including searching items, retrieving metadata and fulltext, creating and organizing collections, adding and updating items, notes and annotations, saved searches, file attachments, tags, trash, settings, groups, and incremental sync.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceEnables AI assistants to read, search, and fully manage a Zotero library locally—organizing collections, editing items, uploading files, and managing notes, tags, and trash—through the local Zotero API without cloud sync.331MITWhy this server?
Provides access to a Zotero library via the web API, including searching items, retrieving metadata and attachments, extracting text from PDFs, and rendering PDF pages as images.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceEnables assistants to search a Zotero library, retrieve metadata and PDF text, and view PDF pages as rendered images so figures and layouts are visible.4MITWhy this server?
Provides tools for interacting with a Zotero 7 library, supporting read-only access to items and attachments via the local API, and write operations (such as updating items and moving them to trash) through the Research Workbench Zotero extension.
AlicenseBqualityBmaintenancezotero-mcp is a capability-honest stdio adapter for Zotero 7, using Zotero's local API for reads and a companion extension for narrow writes. It exposes 15 tools for interacting with Zotero, with explicit error reporting when features are unsupported.15MITWhy this server?
Allows browsing collections, inspecting paper metadata, and extracting full-text from PDFs from a local Zotero library.
AlicenseAqualityBmaintenanceRead-only MCP server for your local Zotero library. Browse collections, inspect paper metadata, and extract full-text from PDFs via FastMCP tools.4MITWhy this server?
Provides access to a Zotero library, allowing AI agents to read library items and insert live Zotero citation fields into Word documents that remain linked to the Zotero items.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceAn MCP server that lets Claude access your Zotero library and insert live, field-based Zotero citations directly into Word documents by writing the underlying OOXML, enabling proper style updates and bibliography management without manual intervention.27MIT