Scholar MCP Server

Scholar MCP is an MCP integration. Federated academic search, citation traversal, persistent PDF download, and temporary reading.

Packages and local setup

The published pypi package is scholar-mcp, version 0.8.5. Its declared MCP transport is stdio.

The package declares SCHOLAR_DATA_DIR; SCHOLAR_MCP_EXTENSIONS; S2_API_KEY; OPENALEX_API_KEY; CORE_API_KEY; SCOPUS_API_KEY; DASHSCOPE_API_KEY; DASHSCOPE_HTTP_BASE_URL: Alibaba workspace API host or /api/v1 base URL.; SCHOLAR_RERANK_MODEL: Alibaba or custom reranker model name.; SCHOLAR_RERANK_URL: Full custom rerank endpoint; overrides Alibaba routing.; SCHOLAR_RERANK_API_KEY; EXA_API_KEY; ZOTERO_API_KEY; ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID; NOTION_API_KEY; NOTION_DATA_SOURCE_ID.

This package has launch arguments in its registry record. Use the maintainer’s configuration for those arguments rather than launching it with only the package name.

Before connecting

Check the maintainer’s instructions for account access, authentication and the supported client configuration. Once connected, inspect the tools your client receives and try a small task that matches the server’s stated purpose. The registry description does not include a verified, complete tool list.

Project and source

View the publisher’s registry entry · Project repository. This profile uses version 0.8.5 from the registry. Registration identifies the publisher namespace; it does not establish that this is a first-party integration for every service it connects.

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