This project provides a lightweight Machine Communication Protocol (MCP) server that wraps key functionalities of the CORE.ac.uk API. It enables local programmatic access to academic content…
Core_ac_uk Academic Articles is an MCP project maintained in the chkunkel/core_ac_uk_mcp repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “This project provides a lightweight Machine Communication Protocol (MCP) server that wraps key functionalities of the CORE.ac.uk API. It enables local programmatic access to academic…”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.
The project provides a local client configuration using uv. Follow the repository’s build and installation steps before copying it, and replace example paths with the paths on your own computer.
Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-08.
{
"mcpServers": {
"core_ac_uk_server": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"run",
"<SCRIPT_PATH>/core_mcp_server_local.py"
],
"env": {},
"working_directory": null,
"start_on_launch": true
}
}
}From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.
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