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io.github.pvliesdonk/scholar-mcp · v1.8.2

Scholarly papers plus NIST/IETF/W3C/ETSI/ISO/IEEE standards as prior art.

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Runs as

uvx · pypi · pvliesdonk-scholar-mcp@1.8.2

Repository

pvliesdonk/scholar-mcp

Website

pvliesdonk.github.io

What it needs from you

  • SCHOLAR_MCP_S2_API_KEYOptionalSecret

    Optional free Semantic Scholar API key (semanticscholar.org/product/api). Raises rate limits (~10 req/s vs ~1); not required.

  • SCHOLAR_MCP_CONTACT_EMAILOptional

    Optional contact email for the OpenAlex polite pool and Unpaywall PDF lookups (any valid address).

Manual config

Add this to your MCP client's config (e.g. an mcp.json or the client's mcpServers block), filling in any placeholders.

mcpServers
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scholar-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "pvliesdonk-scholar-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_S2_API_KEY": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_S2_API_KEY>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_CONTACT_EMAIL": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_CONTACT_EMAIL>"
      }
    }
  }
}