I want to search papers and studies
Servers for arXiv, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, and Zotero. Your agent queries academic databases, extracts findings, and formats citation keys.
MCP servers for this
- MCP server
- Official
- Featured

Firecrawl MCP Server
Firecrawl
Firecrawl, the context API for AI agents: search, scrape, interact with the web, plus paper search.
7.7kActive- Runs locally
- Remote
- API key
- OAuth
Setup documented for VS Code (GitHub Copilot), Cursor, Claude Desktop, Windsurf- MCP server

Zotero MCP
Zotero
Search, read, annotate, and add to your Zotero research library, local or web.
5.6kActive- Runs locally
- API key
- Free
Setup documented for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Claude Desktop and 2 more- MCP server

Korean Law MCP
Korean law: statutes, precedents, ordinances, treaties and citation verification (법제처 API).
2.8kActive- Remote
- API key
Setup documented for Claude Code, VS Code (GitHub Copilot), Cursor, ChatGPT and 4 more- MCP server

arxiv-mcp-server
arXiv
Search arXiv papers, download full text, semantic search, citation graphs, and alerts via MCP.
3.2kActive- Runs locally
- No auth
- Free
Setup documented for Claude Code, VS Code (GitHub Copilot), Codex, Cursor and 1 more- MCP server

PaperBanana
Generate academic diagrams and statistical plots from text using multi-agent AI.
2.4kActive- Runs locally
- API key
Setup documented for Claude Code- MCP server
- Official

tooluniverse
Mims Harvard
2,700+ scientific tools for AI scientists: life science, research, literature, and more.
1.8kActive- Runs locally
- API key
Setup documented for Claude Code, Claude Desktop- MCP server

fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools
Buddhist canon tools: search, passages, cross-canon parallels, dictionaries — all URN-cited.
354Active- Remote
Setup documented for Claude Code- MCP server

google-surf-mcp
Web, academic and code search with graph RAG, data lineage, ontology and cross-project schema links.
292Active- Runs locally
- API key
Setup documented for Claude Code, Codex- MCP server

olcli
Overleaf projects from an MCP client: files, compile and PDF, diff, comments and tracked changes
227Active- Runs locally
- API key
- MCP server

legal-data-hunter
Search 18M+ legal documents worldwide — case law, legislation, and doctrine across 110+ countries.
409Active- Remote
- MCP server

pubmed-mcp-server
Search PubMed/Europe PMC, fetch articles and full text (PMC/EPMC/Unpaywall), citations, MeSH terms.
163Active- Runs locally
- Remote
Setup documented for Claude Code, VS Code (GitHub Copilot), Cursor, Claude Desktop- MCP server

tw-legal-rag
Citation-guarded retrieval over 22M Taiwan court judgments and administrative interpretations
335Active- Remote
Setup documented for Claude Code, Gemini CLI- MCP server

OpenCaseLaw — Swiss Caselaw, Statutes & Doctrine
1M+ Swiss court decisions, statutes & doctrine with citation graph (DE/FR/IT). CC0, free, 42 tools.
75Active- Remote
Setup documented for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Gemini CLI- MCP server

Open Library
Search books and authors on the Internet Archive's Open Library
100Active- Runs locally
Setup documented for Claude Desktop- MCP server
- Official

LibreJustice
Search French-language and European case law and French legal texts (codes, statutes, treaties).
30Active- Remote
Setup documented for Claude Code- MCP server

paper-preflight
Checks every LaTeX reference against Crossref, dblp, arXiv, DataCite, PubMed and OpenAlex. No LLM.
122Active- Runs locally
Setup documented for Claude Code- MCP server

Web Researcher MCP
Your AI research assistant that cites real sources and stays honest
72Active- Runs locally
- API key
Setup documented for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Claude Desktop and 2 more- MCP server

Zotero MCP
Search your Zotero library, retrieve item metadata, and read full text from AI assistants.
162Active- Runs locally
- API key
- MCP server

biomcp
One binary. One grammar. Evidence from the biomedical sources you already trust.
667Active- Remote
Setup documented for Claude Code, Codex, Claude Desktop- MCP server

WenyuChiou MCP server
Research workspace for Zotero + Obsidian + NotebookLM. Search, ingest, sync, verify briefs.
66Active- Runs locally
- MCP server

Alfanous - Quranic Search Engine
Search and explore the Holy Qur'an with Arabic text, transliteration, and advanced search support.
286Slow- Runs locally
Setup documented for Claude Desktop- MCP server

Zoteus
Zotero MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT: search, citations, safe writes, PDF passages and pages.
62Active- Runs locally
- Remote
- API key
Setup documented for Claude Code, Claude Desktop- MCP server

endnote-mcp
Search, cite, and read PDFs from your EndNote library in Claude Desktop
56Active- Runs locally
Setup documented for Claude Code, Claude Desktop- MCP server

Acquisition.gov
Acquisition.gov FAR Overhaul model parts, agency deviations, PDFs, and guidance. 5 tools.
28Active- Runs locally
- Remote
Skills for this
- Skill

scientific-agent-skills
K-Dense
A collection of 177 scientific and research skills for AI agents, created by K-Dense. The skills cover biology, chemistry, medicine, physics, engineering, Earth science, data analysis, and scientific communication.
55kActive- Bundles scripts
- Needs network
Setup documented for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Google Antigravity- Skill

AI-Research-SKILLs
We enable AI agents to autonomously conduct AI research — from literature survey and idea generation through experiment execution to paper writing.
14kActive- Bundles scripts
- Needs network
Setup documented for Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode- Skill

learn-from-materials
Turn books, PDFs, slides, documents, web pages and text into a source-grounded knowledge base, interactive learning HTML and Markdown in English or Chinese. Use for learning, summaries, explanations, review, quizzes, relationship maps, saving reusable methodology files, retrieving or comparing…
1.2kActive- Bundles scripts
- Works offline
- Skill

deep-research
Execute autonomous multi-step research using Google Gemini Deep Research Agent. Use for: market analysis, competitive landscaping, literature reviews, technical research, due diligence. Takes 2-10 minutes but produces detailed, cited reports. Costs $2-5 per task.
447Active- Bundles scripts