MCP, CLI, Skills for searching and downloading academic papers from multiple sources like arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, etc.
Paper Search MCP is a Python tool and Model Context Protocol server for finding, downloading, and extracting text from academic papers across multiple sources. Researchers and AI-driven workflows use it through MCP clients or its command-line interface, with open sources prioritized and optional API keys supported. The catalogue skill provides a way to use the project from a coding-agent workflow.
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Search, download, and read academic papers from 20+ sources (arXiv, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, CrossRef, etc). Use when the user asks to find papers, search for research, look up academic literature, download a paper PDF, or extract text from a paper.