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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?
Manages Zotero library: query, create, update, delete items, manage tags, groups, attachments, and export citations in multiple formats.
Why this server?
Allows browsing collections, inspecting paper metadata, and extracting full-text from PDFs from a local Zotero library.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceRead-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.
AlicenseAqualityDmaintenanceAn 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.27MITWhy this server?
Provides tools for searching, organizing, and adding items to a Zotero library by DOI or metadata, managing collections, importing PDFs with full-text indexing, and injecting citations into Word documents.
AlicenseAqualityBmaintenanceA Model Context Protocol server for Zotero integration that gives any LLM full access to your Zotero library, including search, organization, DOI-based paper addition, PDF import, full-text reading, and citation injection into Word documents.15383 npm38MITWhy this server?
Provides tools to search, retrieve, and manage your Zotero research library, including items, collections, tags, annotations, and full text. Supports adding items by DOI or URL, updating metadata, and merging duplicates.
AlicenseAqualityBmaintenanceEnables AI assistants to search, access, and interact with your Zotero research library, including semantic search, metadata retrieval, PDF annotations, and library management.41MITWhy this server?
Manages a reading queue, collections, and tags in Zotero, allowing papers to be filed, queued for delivery, and tracked with tags.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceAn MCP server that delivers research papers to your e-reader, using Zotero as the source of truth. Allows searching, queuing, and sending papers to Kindle, PocketBook, or Kobo.147MITWhy this server?
Reads live Zotero metadata from a configured collection and its descendants, providing collection/item discovery and metadata lookup for literature evidence.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceEnables local-first, versioned evidence retrieval from papers without loading the whole library into a conversation, with optional Zotero, writing, fixed-commit code, and experiment record integration returning bounded excerpts and page images.51MITWhy 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.64MITWhy this server?
Provides tools for searching a local Zotero library's full-text PDFs, including hybrid vector/BM25 search with filters for year, author, tag, collection, and type; searching within a single item; retrieving surrounding context; getting bibliographic metadata and abstracts; listing items; checking index status; and updating the index.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceEnables Claude Desktop and Claude Code to perform local hybrid semantic and BM25 search over full-text PDFs in a Zotero library, with filters, context retrieval, and citation-backed answers.7MIT