@pipeworx/mcp-openalex

MCP server for scholarly works, authors, and institutions via the OpenAlex API. Free, no authentication required.

Tools

| Tool | Description | |------|-------------| | search_works | Search scholarly works (papers, books, datasets) by keyword | | search_authors | Search researchers and authors by name | | search_institutions | Search academic institutions by name | | get_concept | Look up an academic concept or field of study |

Quickstart via Pipeworx Gateway

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "tools/call",
    "params": {
      "name": "openalex__search_works",
      "arguments": { "query": "transformer neural networks", "limit": 5 }
    },
    "id": 1
  }'

License

MIT