Unpaywall MCP Server
Enables AI clients to search for academic papers, fetch metadata by DOI, retrieve open access PDF links, and extract full text from research papers using the Unpaywall API. Provides seamless access to scholarly literature for research and analysis tasks.
Install
npx -y unpaywall-mcp
Paste the configuration above into your MCP client config (claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop) and restart the client.
{
"mcpServers": {
"unpaywall-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"unpaywall-mcp"
],
"env": {
"UNPAYWALL_EMAIL": "<UNPAYWALL_EMAIL>"
}
}
}
}Paste the configuration above into your MCP client config (claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop) and restart the client.
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