Google Scholar alternatives
14 web search MCP servers from other publishers do the same job as Google Scholar. The closest match comes first, then the best rated, with at most two per publisher.
Google Scholar search results, citation counts and citation export formats, as structured JSON.
No reviews yetgateway-ready1041/wkFreeFederated search of books and papers, BibTeX/RIS citations, open-access retrieval and reading.
No reviews yetgateway-ready13FreeSearch PubMed/Europe PMC, fetch articles and full text (PMC/EPMC/Unpaywall), citations, MeSH terms.
No reviews yetgateway-ready1488.0k/wkFree18 Google Maps tools for AI agents — geocode, search, directions, weather, and more.
No reviews yetlocal · npm4602.8k/wkFreeZotero MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT: search, citations, safe writes, PDF passages and pages.
No reviews yetgateway-ready411.9k/wkFreeTrack brand citations across five AI search engines. Free OSS; optional EUR 99 client-ready audit.
No reviews yetlocal · npm45279/wkFreeOfficial SerpApi MCP server for Google, Bing, and other search engines.
No reviews yetgateway-ready171FreeSearch YouTube and read video, channel and transcript data as JSON. No Google Cloud project.
No reviews yetgateway-ready6249/wkFreeSearch arXiv, fetch paper metadata, and read full-text content.
No reviews yetgateway-ready61.1k/wkFreeQuery Google News RSS feeds and search interest over time via Google Trends.
No reviews yetlocal · pypi589/wkFreeOpen-source Google Maps Platform alternative for agents: search, route, map, geocode, and compute.
No reviews yetlocal · npm1685/wkFreeSearch and cross-reference local AI chat history with read-only tools and source citations.
No reviews yetlocal · pypi1260/wkFreeSearch scholarly sources, verify references, and export citations with traceable evidence.
No reviews yetlocal · pypi1210/wkFreeGoogle, Bing, DuckDuckGo and Google Maps search results, free without an API key.
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