What is Academia MCP?
Academia MCP is a Model Context Protocol server that provides tools to search, fetch, analyze, and report on scientific papers and datasets. It integrates with ArXiv, ACL Anthology, Hugging Face Datasets, Semantic Scholar, web search engines (Exa, Brave, Tavily), and LaTeX compilation. Designed for researchers and developers who want AI-assisted literature discovery and analysis.
How to use Academia MCP?
Install via pip3 install academia-mcp or use uv for development. Run the server with python -m academia_mcp --transport stdio for local MCP clients or --transport streamable-http for HTTP. Configure optional environment variables to enable specific tools (e.g., OPENROUTER_API_KEY for LLM tools, WORKSPACE_DIR for file operations).
Key features of Academia MCP
- ArXiv search and paper download
- ACL Anthology search
- Hugging Face datasets search
- Semantic Scholar citation and reference lookup
- Web search via Exa, Brave, or Tavily
- Web page crawling and PDF reading
- Optional LLM-powered document QA and research proposals
- LaTeX template enumeration and compilation
Use cases of Academia MCP
- Search for recent papers on a specific research topic across multiple databases.
- Retrieve and analyze citations and references for a given arXiv paper.
- Fetch and review PDFs of scientific papers with LLM assistance.
- Generate and score research proposals based on existing literature.
- Compile LaTeX templates into PDFs programmatically.
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