A curated list of MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers for research, academia, and knowledge discovery.
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| Name | Description | Pricing | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| arXiv MCP | arXiv paper search and analysis | Free |  |
| Paper Search MCP | Multi-source: arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, Google Scholar | Free |  |
| Academic Search MCP | Semantic Scholar + Crossref APIs | Free |  |
| Google Scholar MCP | Google Scholar paper search | Free |  |
| Semantic Scholar MCP | Semantic Scholar API | Free |  |
| Name | Description | Pricing | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deep Research | Use any LLMs for deep research | Free |  |
| Firecrawl MCP | Official web scraping and crawling | Freemium |  |
| Exa MCP | Exa neural search for web search and crawling | Freemium |  |
| Brave Search MCP | Brave Search API | Freemium |  |
| DuckDuckGo MCP | DuckDuckGo web search with content fetching | Free |  |
| SearXNG MCP | SearXNG metasearch engine | Free |  |
| Apify MCP | Web scraping with thousands of ready-made tools | Freemium |  |
| Serper MCP | Web search via Serper API | Freemium |  |
| Name | Description | Pricing | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia MCP | Wikipedia information retrieval | Free |  |
| MediaWiki MCP | Any MediaWiki wiki (Wikipedia, Fandom, etc.) | Free |  |
| Open Library MCP | Book information search | Free |  |
| Smithsonian MCP | Smithsonian collections access | Free |  |
| Name | Description | Pricing | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context7 MCP | Up-to-date code documentation for LLMs | Freemium |  |
| Docs MCP | Personal documentation knowledge base | Free |  |
🙏 Thanks to these contributors who submitted their MCP servers!
| Name | Description | Pricing | Stars | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| domain-search-mcp | Domain search MCP | Free |  |
@dorukardahan |
| kagi-ken-mcp | Kagi search integration | Free |  |
@czottmann |
| Name | Description | Pricing | Stars | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| mediawiki-mcp-server | MediaWiki integration | Free |  |
@olgasafonova |
| pds-mcp-server | NASA Planetary Data System | Free |  |
@tyleryy |
| Name | Description | Pricing | Stars | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| reclaim-mcp-server | Reclaim.ai integration | Free |  |
@universalamateur |
| Name | Description | Pricing | Stars | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| xcomet-mcp-server | Translation quality evaluation | Free |  |
@shuji-bonji |
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