"Academic Research Tools for Finding, Downloading, Reading, and Writing Articles" matching MCP servers:

Enables document conversion between PDF, DOCX, and Markdown formats to facilitate reading and editing complex files in AI tools like Claude Desktop or Cursor. It utilizes marker-pdf and pandoc to provide structured text versions of documents, helping to manage context and support unsupported file types.

Enables local EPUB reading with AI agents, supporting annotations, parallel editions, and MCP tools.

A 4-stage reading companion that helps users set reading goals, discover books, track progress, and deepen learning through reflection, integrated with Claude Desktop.

Read WeChat (微信) Official Account articles with native multimodal output — body, images, and video keyframes returned as MCP content blocks. Handles all three embed types: Tencent Video, WeChat-native, and Channels (视频号 metadata via public API).

Exposes web search and page fetching tools via the MCP protocol, allowing integration with AI editors like Cursor for autonomous research workflows.

Enables AI agents to perform local video, audio, and file operations inside an isolated workspace, including cutting/concat videos, extracting audio, transcribing, and managing files, with typed responses and background job support.

Enables searching academic literature via Semantic Scholar with relevance filters, batch metadata retrieval, and citation-graph recommendations.

Content writing toolkit for headline generation, readability scoring, tone analysis, outline building, and plagiarism similarity checking.

Unified academic search MCP server that searches open literature (arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, PMC), CNKI, and Web of Science, with browser-backed authentication, local paper library, and export to multiple formats.

A read-only FastMCP server for academic research that lets agents search papers, inspect metadata, follow citation graphs, generate BibTeX, and read full texts of open-access PDFs via semantic scholar, OpenAlex, arXiv, DBLP, and Crossref.

Enables AI models to search and retrieve bibliographic and digitized records from Swiss academic libraries (swisscovery, e-rara, e-periodica, e-manuscripta) via open protocols without requiring API keys.

MCP server for web research using anti-detect Camoufox browser. Enables search, page reading (including JS/SPA), batch fetching, clicking, typing, and live browsing sessions with caching and retries.

An MCP server that enables AI assistants to call statistician's decision logic for recommending statistical tests, checking assumptions, interpreting results, and planning sample sizes.

Research methods, workflow tools, and independent review for AI agents, packaged as a Skill, plugin, and local MCP server.

Enables exporting Apple Safari Reading List entries to JSON and adding new items via MCP on macOS.

A multi-step academic figure agent harness that enables AI agents to plan, generate, evaluate, and iterate publication-grade figures from sources like PMIDs, preprints, or freeform briefs.

Enables students, researchers, and institutions to automate the creation, structuring, iterative versioning, and methodology validation of formal academic thesis and research proposals.

Enables researching YouTube channels and videos by listing uploads, reading transcripts, extracting frames, and searching, without needing a YouTube API key.

Educational tools agent by Birkan Yavuz — an A2A + MCP server for classroom tools, with creator attribution in every result. It offers a catalog of 24 real classroom activities, including math visualizers and reading and sight-word tools.

Enables federated multi-source research by fanning out queries across web, community, and social sources, deduplicating and interleaving results, and storing a persistent corpus for cross-checking.

Enables semantic search across personal PDF paper collections with page-level citations, allowing users to query their library from any MCP-capable client.

A unified MCP server for academic paper discovery, citation exploration, and research intelligence workflows over multiple scientific knowledge sources.

Relays a result screenshot to Slack so you can review a coding agent's output without opening the app.

Browser-based research MCP server that drives a real Chromium browser via patched Playwright to access JavaScript-rendered content, dynamic tables, and login-walled dashboards. It provides tools for visiting URLs to extract DOM text and screenshots, and for performing structured data extraction using Anthropic Claude Sonnet.

MCP server for personal knowledge management providing AI-powered tools for semantic search, audio transcription, image generation, and PPT creation.

An MCP server exposing a registry of paper-backed quantitative trading methods plus a deterministic, no-LLM decision helper for reproducible trading research.

Enables producing verifiable FORRT nanopublication chains with grounded quote verification and compact Science Live constellation projections, supporting reproduction, replication, and new research workflows.

Provides machine learning researchers with tools for creating publication-quality scientific visualizations, statistical plots, and 2D data representations. It streamlines the research workflow by enabling AI assistants to generate complex figures from CSV, JSON, or direct data inputs.

MCP server that exposes tools to route natural language queries to typed IDs, describe catalog entries, and list repository verification commands for the m-dev-tools organization.

Recommends study designs for a research question, states the identifying assumptions to verify, and returns runnable R, Python, or Julia code with a formatted citation for every source, drawn from methodological textbooks, an R package, and research articles on causal inference, econometrics, statistics, and machine learning.