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 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.
AsecurityAlicense-qualityAllows AI to interact with your Zotero library.Last updated a year ago5125153MITWhy this server?
Provides programmatic access to a Zotero library, allowing users to search papers, manage notes, and access repository content through the MCP server
AsecurityAlicense-qualityA server that enables MCP clients like Anthropic Claude App to interact with local Zotero libraries, allowing users to search papers, manage notes, and access research materials through natural language.Last updated 10 months ago1025Apache 2.0Why this server?
Provides direct read access to your local Zotero library, allowing Claude to search collections, view item details, and access paper abstracts
AsecurityAlicense-qualityIntegrates local Zotero libraries with Claude's Desktop interface, allowing users to access and manage their library collections via a local API.Last updated 5 months ago455MITWhy this server?
Provides access to your Zotero library, allowing you to search for items, retrieve detailed metadata, and access the full text contents of PDFs and other documents stored in your Zotero collection.
AsecurityAlicense-qualityThis server allows users to interact with their Zotero library through the Model Context Protocol, providing tools for searching items, retrieving metadata, and accessing full text using natural language queries.Last updated a year ago3140MITWhy 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.
AsecurityAlicense-qualityConnects 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 updated 17 days ago102,071MITWhy this server?
Integrates with Zotero's local API to search library items by author or title, retrieve detailed item metadata including abstracts and tags, and extract full text from PDF attachments.
AsecurityAlicense-qualityIntegrates with Zotero's local API to search your reference library, retrieve bibliographic details, and extract full text from PDF attachments.Last updated 4 months ago4MITWhy this server?
Provides full read and write support for managing Zotero libraries, including tools for searching items, managing collections and tags, creating new entries, and performing maintenance tasks like merging duplicates.
AsecurityAlicense-qualityRead+write MCP server for Zotero with full write support — create items, manage collections, find and merge duplicates, import BibTeXLast updated 25 days ago15MITWhy this server?
Connects AI agents to a local Zotero library to search items, browse collections, retrieve metadata, and manage academic papers.
AsecurityAlicense-qualityA 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.Last updated 22 days ago613MITWhy this server?
Provides tools for searching items, managing collections, retrieving notes, creating new items, and generating flashcards from Zotero library content using either Web API or local database access.
AsecurityFlicense-qualityEnables educational and learning tasks including flashcard generation with Anki integration, Zotero library management, Obsidian vault interaction, and mathematical expression verification with LaTeX support.Last updated 24 days ago8