unpaywall-mcp

Item: unpaywall-mcp
Rating: 69
Author: M8ven

Enables looking up free-to-read versions of scholarly papers by DOI and searching article titles for Open Access matches via the Unpaywall API.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configUNPAYWALL_MCP_EMAIL— yes Contact email Unpaywall requires on every request

// full audit trail

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commit: 5a1e94363ecfb8b0ec8bb5371b7e042bea88284c

code hash: baa48f55be8eed75e6d9593663a3358a77f31d2ea51b81b58637dfacdbdad930

verified: 7/16/2026, 8:41:23 AM

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