Open Articles MCP

MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for fetching full text of research papers by DOI or URL.

Features

• Fetch research papers by DOI
• Fetch papers by URL (arXiv, PubMed, publisher links)
• Extract full text from PDFs
• Works with Cursor IDE and other MCP-compatible tools

Installation

For Cursor IDE

Add to your Cursor settings (~/.cursor/mcp.json or project .cursor/mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "open-articles-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "open-articles-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Custom Server URL

If you're running your own server instance:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "open-articles-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "open-articles-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "MCP_SERVER_URL": "https://your-server.com"
      }
    }
  }
}

Usage

Once configured, you can ask your AI assistant to:

• "Fetch the paper with DOI 10.1038/nature12373"
• "Get the full text of https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00001"
• "Download and analyze the paper at https://doi.org/10.1234/example"

Available Tools

fetch_research_paper_by_doi

Downloads full PDF version of a research paper by DOI.

Parameters:

• doi (string, required): Paper DOI (e.g., "10.1176/ajp.120.6.571")

fetch_research_paper_by_url

Downloads full PDF version of a research paper by URL.

Parameters:

• url (string, required): URL to the research paper

Supported URL formats:

• Direct DOI URLs: https://doi.org/10.1234/example
• arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00001
• PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12345678
• Publisher links with DOI in URL

Development

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/your-username/open-articles-mcp
cd open-articles-mcp/open-articles-mcp

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run locally
npm start

Environment Variables

• MCP_SERVER_URL: URL of the backend server (default: https://open-articles-mcp.onrender.com)

License

MIT