"Open Collective" matching MCP servers:

Federated, license-verified search across open-access museum collections — currently The Met, Cleveland, AIC, Wikimedia Commons, and Europeana, with more being added. Strict-default-deny rights gate accepts only CC0 / Public Domain Mark, returning reuse-safe artwork with citations in three styles.

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for the Open Library API that enables AI assistants to search for book information.

Connects AI assistants to the Open Library API for searching books and authors, retrieving metadata, and comparing works.

Provides access to Internet Archive's Open Library metadata, enabling queries about books, authors, and subjects via natural language through the Pipeworx gateway.

Enables AI agents to search seven open media collections for reusable images, artworks, HDRIs, textures and 3D models, keeping only items whose own licence record clearly permits reuse. Returns ready-to-use attribution credit lines and can download the selected files with a generated credits file.

Fetches books by genre or subject from the Open Library API without requiring an API key, returning titles, authors, and publication years.

Enables querying genealogical records, archive statistics, historical weather, and full-text transcriptions from Open Archives via natural language.

Provides keyless access to Romanian public economic and cultural data, including exchange rates, company/VAT lookups, open datasets, official statistics, seismic-risk building records, and classified cultural heritage.

Render music notation from a JSON score to inline SVG (Verovio + Bravura), round-trippable MusicXML, and base64 MIDI in one call. Includes pre-flight validation with concrete fix suggestions and a curated music-theory knowledge search. Free, open, no auth, sponsored by Gradus School of Music Composition.

License-first federated image search for AI agents and humans. Exposes MCP tools for concise, attribution-aware image discovery, license probing, and guarded downloads across open, platform, and editorial sources.

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.

Provides AI assistants with access to search, explore, and analyze over 3 million collection objects from the Smithsonian Institution's museums. Enables finding objects currently on exhibit, retrieving detailed metadata, high-resolution images, and 3D models from America's national museums.

Provides read-only access to ORACC open cuneiform data, enabling listing of projects, retrieval of metadata, manifests, and text excerpts, and searching of catalogues.

Provides access to Iconify's 200,000+ open source vector icons from 200+ icon sets, enabling search, browsing, and retrieval of icon data with framework usage examples.

Enables AI assistants to access Venice AI's capabilities including chat with open-source models, image generation, text-to-speech, embeddings, and API key management.

Enables searching Dutch archival deeds and records via the Open Archieven API, discovering every scan of a register, and downloading images with full provenance and metadata. It also offers a conservative, locally-OCR-based resolver that suggests candidate scans for a given act without performing automatic matching.

MCP server that enables searching books by author via Open Library API and searching keywords inside local text files.

Exposes 97 official Shanghai Library open data APIs and the Sou-Yun poetry database (1.99 million poems) as 12 MCP tools, covering genealogy, ancient books, calligraphy, historical buildings, and more. Enables MCP clients to query these datasets using natural language.

Provides access to the Ghibli Image Generator API for creating Ghibli-style images using OpenAI models. It enables users to generate stylized artwork through the ghibli_generate_image tool.

Enables searching and exploring millions of items from the Smithsonian Institution's collections including artifacts, artworks, specimens, photographs, and more, using the Smithsonian Open Access API.

MCP server that gives AI agents access to the world's public domain library. Search, read, and navigate books and audiobooks from Project Gutenberg and LibriVox.

Searches the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection and fetches full artwork records with open-access images via MCP, supporting STDIO and Streamable HTTP transports.

MCP server for searching and retrieving Creative-Commons-licensed images and audio from Openverse. Enables AI agents to query open media content.

Provides access to BookBrainz open book metadata, enabling search, lookup, and browsing of works, editions, authors, publishers, and series via natural language or direct tool calls.

Chinese astrology computed by FateTell's own BaZi engine: cast a BaZi (八字, Four Pillars) chart from any birth date, open the charts saved in your FateTell account, and check today's fortune and the Chinese almanac. This repository holds the public metadata for the hosted server at mcp.fatetell.com: Claude, Cursor, Hermes and Gemini CLI packages, the Registry entry and the fatetell-bazi skill.

Enables searching and retrieving detailed information about items from the Smithsonian Open Access collection, including metadata and images.

Enables AI agents to search The Met's open-access collection by keyword with filters for images, on-view status, medium, and year range, and to fetch rich object details such as artist bio, dimensions, department, and gallery number. Also lists the museum's curatorial departments so searches can be scoped, all without an API key.

MCP server for Scotland's historic environment, providing tools to search, filter, count, and locate heritage sites, listed buildings, scheduled monuments, and properties in care using Historic Environment Scotland's open ArcGIS API. Supports natural language queries for castles, monuments, archaeological sites, and more, returning locations, details, and trove.scot links.

Enables searching 14.5M Smithsonian Open Access objects, retrieving CC0 images, and exploring museum collections via MCP with 6 tools.

An MCP server that enables searching books and authors, fetching editions, browsing subjects, and resolving cover images from Open Library.