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paper-search-mcp

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

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paper-search-mcp provides an MCP server, CLI, and skills for searching and downloading academic papers from multiple sources such as arXiv, PubMed, and bioRxiv. It is written in Python, uses uv, offers a Docker toolchain, and ships on Smithery.

Use it when you want agents or workflows to query and fetch academic papers across several repositories through a single MCP server or CLI.

Use it to

  • Expose paper search to an MCP client
  • Download papers from arXiv and PubMed
  • Run searches from the CLI
  • Deploy the server via Docker or Smithery
  • Add paper-retrieval skills to an agent

For Developers building research or AI-scientist agents

Role
mcp-server
Language
Python
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MIT
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274
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2026-08-17
topicsmcp-serveracademic-papersarxivpaper-searchpythoncli