mcp-scholarly MCP server

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A MCP server to search for accurate academic articles. More scholarly vendors will be added soon.

Components

Tools

The server implements one tool:

search-arxiv: Search arxiv for articles related to the given keyword.
- Takes “keyword” as required string arguments

Quickstart

Install

Claude Desktop

On MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Development/Unpublished Servers Configuration

``` "mcpServers": { "mcp-scholarly": { "command": "uv", "args": [ "--directory", "/Users/adityakarnam/PycharmProjects/mcp-scholarly/mcp-scholarly", "run", "mcp-scholarly" ] } } ```

Published Servers Configuration

``` "mcpServers": { "mcp-scholarly": { "command": "uvx", "args": [ "mcp-scholarly" ] } } ```

or if you are using Docker

Published Docker Servers Configuration

``` "mcpServers": { "mcp-scholarly": { "command": "docker", "args": [ "run", "--rm", "-i", "mcp/scholarly" ] } } ```

Installing via Smithery

To install mcp-scholarly for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery :


npx -y @smithery/cli install mcp-scholarly --client claude

Development

Building and Publishing

To prepare the package for distribution:

Sync dependencies and update lockfile:


uv sync

Build package distributions:


uv build

This will create source and wheel distributions in the dist/ directory.

Publish to PyPI:


uv publish

Note: You’ll need to set PyPI credentials via environment variables or command flags:

Token: --token or UV_PUBLISH_TOKEN
Or username/password: --username/UV_PUBLISH_USERNAME and --password/UV_PUBLISH_PASSWORD

Debugging

Since MCP servers run over stdio, debugging can be challenging. For the best debugging experience, we strongly recommend using the MCP Inspector .

You can launch the MCP Inspector via npm with this command:


npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv --directory /Users/adityakarnam/PycharmProjects/mcp-scholarly/mcp-scholarly run mcp-scholarly

Upon launching, the Inspector will display a URL that you can access in your browser to begin debugging.