Paper Search Mcp

MCP, CLI, Skills for searching and downloading academic papers from multiple sources like arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, etc.

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Claude Code — run this in your terminal:

claude mcp add paper-search-mcp --env PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_UNPAYWALL_EMAIL=YOUR_PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_UNPAYWALL_EMAIL --env PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_CORE_API_KEY=YOUR_PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_CORE_API_KEY --env PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY=YOUR_PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY --env PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_ZENODO_ACCESS_TOKEN=YOUR_PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_ZENODO_ACCESS_TOKEN --env PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_GOOGLE_SCHOLAR_PROXY_URL=YOUR_PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_GOOGLE_SCHOLAR_PROXY_URL --env PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_IEEE_API_KEY=YOUR_PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_IEEE_API_KEY -- uvx paper-search-mcp

Claude Desktop and other clients: paste this into the configuration file

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "paper-search-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "paper-search-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_UNPAYWALL_EMAIL": "YOUR_PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_UNPAYWALL_EMAIL",
        "PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_CORE_API_KEY": "YOUR_PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_CORE_API_KEY",
        "PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY": "YOUR_PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY",
        "PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_ZENODO_ACCESS_TOKEN": "YOUR_PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_ZENODO_ACCESS_TOKEN",
        "PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_GOOGLE_SCHOLAR_PROXY_URL": "YOUR_PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_GOOGLE_SCHOLAR_PROXY_URL",
        "PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_IEEE_API_KEY": "YOUR_PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_IEEE_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

After adding, fill in: PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_UNPAYWALL_EMAILPAPER_SEARCH_MCP_CORE_API_KEYPAPER_SEARCH_MCP_SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEYPAPER_SEARCH_MCP_ZENODO_ACCESS_TOKENPAPER_SEARCH_MCP_GOOGLE_SCHOLAR_PROXY_URLPAPER_SEARCH_MCP_IEEE_API_KEY

Built from the configuration example in the project's README. The buttons open the app on your computer, which asks you to confirm before anything is added.

Install

uv tool install paper-search-mcp

npx -y @smithery/cli install @openags/paper-search-mcp --client claude

pip install paper-search-mcp

Copied from the project's README. Read what it does before you run it.

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Its README asks for something worth reading first, such as administrator rights or an install script.

Runs an install script from a well-known hostcurl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
Needs an API key or tokenexport PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_IEEE_API_KEY=<your_ieee_key> # free key at https://developer.ieee.org/

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Last updated: Oct 2, 2026
License: MIT
Language: Python
Created: Apr 6, 2025
Open issues: 20
Quality score: A 72/100

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