Scholar MCP alternatives

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Books & Papers MCP Server

by jmrplens

A

Federated search of books and papers, BibTeX/RIS citations, open-access retrieval and reading.

2

Zoteus

by oscardvs

A

Zotero MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT: search, citations, safe writes, PDF passages and pages.

3

HasData Google Scholar

by hasdata.com

A

Google Scholar search results, citation counts and citation export formats, as structured JSON.

4

Semantic Scholar MCP Server

by smaniches

B

MCP server for the Semantic Scholar API: search 200M+ papers, citations, authors, recommendations.

5

SearXNG Search

by ihor-sokoliuk

B

MCP server for SearXNG — privacy-respecting web search with pagination, URL reading

6

Pubmed

by cyanheads

A

Search PubMed/Europe PMC, fetch articles and full text (PMC/EPMC/Unpaywall), citations, MeSH terms.

7

Link

by gowtham0992

A

Local personal memory for agents as MCP tools — remember, recall, search, context, graph traversal.

8

GEO Tracker by DigestSEO

by AKzar1el

B

Track brand citations across five AI search engines. Free OSS; optional EUR 99 client-ready audit.

9

Octobrain

by Muvon

A

Persistent memory for AI assistants with semantic search and knowledge graph relationships.

10

Noun

by alisaitteke

B

Production MCP server for The Noun Project — search & download icons in Cursor/Claude with OAuth…

11

upAPI

by DevinoSolutions

A

All public upAPI operations as MCP tools: web scraping, search, screenshots, PDF, OCR and more.

12

Agenticmemory

by jyswee

B

Persistent memory for AI agents — history, context, semantic search, queues. 17 tools, stdio/SSE.

Search and cross-reference local AI chat history with read-only tools and source citations.

14

CiteNexus

by akougkas

B

Search scholarly sources, verify references, and export citations with traceable evidence.

15

3DAssets.dev

by 3dassets.dev

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Search and download free CC0 GLB models and game packs, and submit new ones on a user behalf.