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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 interaction with a Zotero library, providing tools for searching papers, adding papers via arXiv, updating metadata, and retrieving items, as well as resources for recent items and collection items, and prompts for literature review and paper summary.
Why this server?
Provides CLI and MCP server to manage, audit, and sync Zotero libraries with local reads, preview-first writes, health checks, and CI integration.
AlicenseAqualityAmaintenanceA Zotero MCP server built for agent safety: a capability-tagged tool registry (every command carries operation/requires/destructive annotations), preview-first writes behind a mutation journal, and read-only defaults. Single Go binary with an MCPB one-click manifest for Claude Desktop.Last updated261MITWhy 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.
AlicenseAqualityAmaintenanceConnects Zotero and Obsidian for an AI-assisted academic reading workflow, enabling paper fetching, structured note creation, highlight syncing, and review management.Last updated10MITWhy this server?
Provides direct read access to your local Zotero library, allowing Claude to search collections, view item details, and access paper abstracts
AlicenseBqualityFmaintenanceIntegrates local Zotero libraries with Claude's Desktop interface, allowing users to access and manage their library collections via a local API.Last updated455MITWhy 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 updated96MITWhy this server?
Allows exporting search results as RIS format compatible with Zotero reference management software.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceEnables querying open-access availability of scholarly articles via Unpaywall API, including DOI lookup, title search, and citation export.Last updated4MITWhy this server?
Allows adding verified papers to a Zotero library via the Web API.
AlicenseAqualityDmaintenanceBioCite-MCP enables LLMs to retrieve verified academic literature metadata, citations, and BibTeX from Europe PMC and Crossref, and audit manuscripts for citation accuracy.Last updated8MITWhy 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?
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 updated7638MIT