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Zovo Paper Finder MCP Server

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Zovo Paper Finder is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Build a literature list for a student paper, thesis or research project from Crossref.

Uptime history 13 hours of history
13 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
46 of 46 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
375 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Zovo Paper Finder every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 10 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add paper-finder --transport http https://paper-finder.zovo.one/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://paper-finder.zovo.one/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.paper-finder]
url = "https://paper-finder.zovo.one/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "paper-finder": {
      "url": "https://paper-finder.zovo.one/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "paper-finder": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://paper-finder.zovo.one/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

format
format_bibliography
Use this when the user has a list of DOIs and wants a reference list in APA, MLA, Chicago (author-date) or IEEE style plus BibTeX and RIS files that import into Zotero, EndNote or Mendeley. Metadata comes from Crossref, so references are real publisher records, not generated text. Up to 50 DOIs per call. Does not accept titles, URLs of web pages or citation text, and does not check a manuscript.
paper
get_paper_network
Use this when the user has one paper (DOI) and wants its most-cited references and its citation count, for backward snowballing of a literature search, with BibTeX, RIS, CSV and PDF files. Data comes from Crossref; the list of works that cite the paper is not available from Crossref, and the result says so. Does not accept titles or search by topic (use find_papers) and does not read full text.
papers
find_papers
Use this when the user wants a literature list or reading list on a research topic with real citation counts, open-access links and a bibliography file (BibTeX, RIS, CSV, PDF). Searches Crossref publisher records by relevance with optional year range, minimum citations, open-access filter (Unpaywall) and sort. Returns up to 30 works per call. Does not summarize papers, read full text or judge study quality. Do not use for a single known paper (use get_paper_network) or for formatting known DOIs (use format_bibliography).

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://paper-finder.zovo.one/mcp streamable-http answering 517 ms 10 min ago

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Zovo Paper Finder — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Zovo Paper Finder do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_papers, format_bibliography, get_paper_network. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Zovo Paper Finder working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 46 of 46 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 375 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Zovo Paper Finder?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Zovo Paper Finder need an API key?
No. Zovo Paper Finder completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Zovo Paper Finder?
It answers our handshake in 375 ms on average, which is faster than 35% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.