UK Data: Research papers is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.
Search 250M scholarly works (OpenAlex, Crossref, arXiv, PubMed) and resolve any DOI
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claude mcp add research-papers --transport http https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/research-papershttps://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/research-papers[mcp_servers.research-papers]
url = "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/research-papers"{
"mcpServers": {
"research-papers": {
"url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/research-papers"
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"research-papers": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/research-papers"
}
}
}Available tools 4
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arxiv_search
doi_lookup
papers_search
pubmed_search
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/research-papers | streamable-http | answering | 69 ms | 9 min ago |
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