Unpaywall MCP Server

Item: Unpaywall MCP Server
Rating: 67
Author: M8ven

Enables querying open-access availability of scholarly articles via Unpaywall API, including DOI lookup, title search, and citation export.

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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_EMAIL— "": "your-email@example.com"

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commit: a4e15707f275c0aad5082990c7d161c1f6dda82b

code hash: 0aff9048e2e8bb0daa87fdaa419de589c1e53473cc5852de37c368401aa00237

verified: 7/4/2026, 9:11:51 AM

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