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    Enables comprehensive academic research by searching and analyzing papers from PubMed, Google Scholar, ArXiv, and JSTOR. Provides full-text access, citation management, and research organization through five powerful consolidated tools.
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    MIT
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    Enables discovery and analysis of research ecosystems by extracting metadata from paper URLs, GitHub repositories, and research names. Automatically finds related papers, code repositories, models, datasets, and authors across platforms like arXiv, HuggingFace, and GitHub.
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    Multi-purpose research MCP server integrating web search, deep research, web scraping, research methodology routing, and GPT Researcher report generation.
    MIT
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    A bounded evidence review engine that ingests documents, extracts evidence for a given claim, detects contradictions, and produces auditable evidence packets without hallucinations or open-web research.
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    Enables semantic search across personal PDF paper collections with page-level citations, allowing users to query their library from any MCP-capable client.
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    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.
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    Enables AI coding agents to run Tavily-powered web searches and asynchronous, cited research through MCP, with tools for focused search, task creation, and status retrieval.
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    An MCP server for searching and downloading books from Library Genesis, supporting EPUB, MOBI, PDF, and more through natural language queries.
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    MIT
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    MCP server exposing ATLAS research capabilities: live tokenized stock market data, on-chain source-of-truth reads, and published research atlases. Connects to MCP clients over stdio with no API keys required for public testnet endpoints.
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    An MCP server for academic literature research that integrates Scopus, CrossRef, OpenAlex, and Unpaywall to search documents, get abstracts, author profiles, citing papers, and open-access PDF links.
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    A deep-research MCP server exposing a single task-augmented tool that runs GPT-Researcher with Tavily search, Anthropic Claude, and OpenAI embeddings, streaming progress via MCP tasks and Upjack entity stream.
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    Provides comprehensive stock research and trading execution for Claude, aggregating data from Alpha Vantage, Finnhub, and Alpaca APIs.
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    Provides access to OpenAlex's catalog of 240+ million scholarly works through 18 specialized tools for conducting literature reviews, analyzing citations, tracking research trends, and mapping the scholarly landscape including authors, institutions, and collaboration networks.
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    Provides A-share (Chinese stock market) quantitative analysis through tools for stock screening, northbound capital flow tracking, dragon-tiger list analysis, margin trading, sector analysis, technical indicators, IPO info, and limit-up/down statistics using akshare data.
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    AI-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.
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