# Smaboundless Unpaywall MCP server

Source: https://glimind.com/server/mcp-registry%2Fio.github.smaboundless%2Funpaywall
Registry id: `mcp-registry/io.github.smaboundless/unpaywall`
Status: unknown

## Install

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "smaboundless-unpaywall-mcp-server": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "unpaywall-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

Claude Code:

```sh
claude mcp add smaboundless-unpaywall-mcp-server -- uvx unpaywall-mcp-server
```

## Tools (4)

- `unpaywall_export_bibtex`: Export results as BibTeX
- `unpaywall_export_ris`: Export results as RIS (for Zotero, EndNote, etc.)
- `unpaywall_lookup`: Look up open-access availability by DOI — returns OA status, PDF/landing page URLs, license, all OA locations
- `unpaywall_search`: Search 120M+ article titles with OA filtering and pagination

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