Best Zotero MCP Servers

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

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Why 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.
Zotero MCP Server
Research & Data Documentation Access File Systems
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Integrates with Zotero's local API to search your reference library, retrieve bibliographic details, and extract full text from PDF attachments.
Last updated 2 months ago
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MIT
Why 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.
Zotero MCP
Search Research & Data Note Taking
54yyyu
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Connects 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 a month ago
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MIT
Why 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.
Zotero MCP Server
Search Research & Data Documentation Access
kujenga
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This 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 9 months ago
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MIT
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.
MCP Zotero
Research & Data Note Taking Documentation Access
kaliaboi
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Allows AI to interact with your Zotero library.
Last updated a year ago
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Why this server?
Provides direct read access to your local Zotero library, allowing Claude to search collections, view item details, and access paper abstracts
Zotero MCP Connector
Research & Data Developer Tools Local
gyger
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Integrates local Zotero libraries with Claude's Desktop interface, allowing users to access and manage their library collections via a local API.
Last updated 2 months ago
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MIT
Why this server?
Facilitates academic research workflows by building knowledge graphs and extracting bibliographic information from papers and sources exported from Zotero.
LLM Graph Builder MCP
Knowledge & Memory RAG Systems Databases
henrardo
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Enables Claude to automatically extract entities and relationships from URLs, PDFs, and YouTube videos to build structured knowledge graphs in Neo4j. It supports custom schemas, academic citation extraction, and community detection for advanced research and content analysis.
Last updated 2 months ago
Apache 2.0
Why this server?
Provides comprehensive access to Zotero libraries including searching items, managing collections and tags, extracting full text and annotations from PDFs, managing notes, and AI-powered semantic search across research materials.
Zotero MCP Server
RAG Systems Vector Databases Research & Data
tspspi
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Enables semantic search and management of Zotero reference libraries using PostgreSQL with pg-vector and OpenAI/Ollama embeddings. Provides AI-powered search, full-text extraction, metadata access, annotations, notes, tags, and collections management.
Last updated 2 months ago
MIT
Why this server?
Provides tools for browsing and querying a Zotero library, including listing open tabs, searching items, and browsing collections through the Zotero 7 application.
Zotero MCP Bridge
Research & Data Note Taking Developer Tools
colobas
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Enables LLM clients to browse and query your Zotero library through tool calls. Provides access to Zotero-specific functions like listing open tabs, searching items, and browsing collections via a local MCP server running inside Zotero.
Last updated 2 months ago
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AGPL 3.0
Why this server?
Provides programmatic access to a Zotero library, allowing users to search papers, manage notes, and access repository content through the MCP server
Zotero MCP Server
Research & Data Note Taking Content Management Systems
swairshah
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A 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 8 months ago
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Apache 2.0