A MCP server to search for accurate academic articles. More scholarly vendors will be added soon.
MCP Scholarly becomes available to MCP clients through the mcp scholarly mcp server. A MCP server to search for accurate academic articles. More scholarly vendors will be added soon.
A MCP server to search for accurate academic articles. More scholarly vendors will be added soon.
Once connected, the assistant can call these 3 tools directly:
search-arxiv — Search arxiv for articles related to the given keywordTools — The server implements one tool: - search-arxiv: Search arxiv for articles related to the given keyword. - Takes "keyword" as required string argumentsDebugging — Since MCP servers run over stdio, debugging can be challenging. For the best debugging experience, we strongly recommend using the [MCPThe server is distributed via npm as @smithery/cli, so most clients can run it without a manual build step. Add it to your MCP client's configuration and restart the client to pick it up — the copy-paste configs for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are on this page.
Before the server will start you need to supply one environment variable: UV_PUBLISH_TOKEN. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than committing them.
Developer-tool servers are usually the first ones people connect, because they turn "help me with this code" into an assistant that can actually read the repo and act on it. MCP Scholarly sits in that group, and the shape of its toolset — search-arxiv, Tools, Debugging — tells you what it is really for. Worth comparing against the other developer tools servers in this directory before you commit to one, since several overlap in scope but differ sharply in setup cost and permissions.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| search-arxiv | Search arxiv for articles related to the given keyword. |
| Tools | The server implements one tool: - search-arxiv: Search arxiv for articles related to the given keyword. - Takes "keyword" as required string arguments |
| Debugging | Since MCP servers run over stdio, debugging can be challenging. For the best debugging experience, we strongly recommend using the [MCP Inspector](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/inspector). |
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-scholarly": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"--directory",
"/Users/adityakarnam/PycharmProjects/mcp-scholarly/mcp-scholarly",
"run",
"mcp-scholarly"
]
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| UV_PUBLISH_TOKEN | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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