Open-access availability for 120M+ scholarly articles via the Unpaywall API
Runs locally over stdio
This server isn't hosted — your MCP client launches it from a package registry. Use one of the commands below, or drop the config into your client (e.g. Claude Desktop).
Run
uvx unpaywall-mcp-server
MCP client config
{
"mcpServers": {
"unpaywall-mcp-server": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"unpaywall-mcp-server"
]
}
}
}