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Open-access availability for 120M+ scholarly articles via the Unpaywall API
- Transport
- stdio
- Authentication
- none
- Initial setup
- credentials
- Runtime
- unattended
- Evidence
- documented
- Version
- 1.0.1
- Package
- unpaywall-mcp-server
- Last compatibility test
- Not independently tested
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unpaywall-mcp-serverPinned publisher README and package manifest reviewed. Package, Unpaywall API, email handling, and tools were not executed or independently security-audited; returned availability and links were not independently verified.
Capabilities: Look up open-access status by DOI, Search scholarly article titles, Return open-access locations and licenses, Export RIS and BibTeX
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io.github.SMABoundless/unpaywall
Source ↗ · Checked 2026-09-171.0.1
Source ↗ · Checked 2026-09-17CC0-1.0; package licenses are separate
Source ↗ · Checked 2026-09-17pypi
Source ↗ · Checked 2026-09-17UNPAYWALL_EMAIL
Source ↗ · Checked 2026-09-17unpaywall-mcp-server
Source ↗ · Checked 2026-09-191.0.1
Source ↗ · Checked 2026-09-19The publisher provides an MCP client configuration that spawns the packaged uvx command as the local server process.
Source ↗ · Checked 2026-09-19Unpaywall requires an email identifier supplied as UNPAYWALL_EMAIL but explicitly does not require an API key.
Source ↗ · Checked 2026-09-19Run unpaywall-mcp-server through uvx in the MCP client's server configuration and pass the email identifier in its environment.
Source ↗ · Checked 2026-09-19Publisher documentation reviewed; package and integration endpoint not executed or independently security-audited.
Source ↗ · Checked 2026-09-19