Fail-closed academic research server: search, full text, citations across open scholarly APIs.
Connect Runs on your machine
claude mcp add trove-mcp -e TROVE_CONTACT_EMAIL=<TROVE_CONTACT_EMAIL> -e UNPAYWALL_EMAIL=<UNPAYWALL_EMAIL> -e TROVE_DB_PATH=<TROVE_DB_PATH> -e SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY=<SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY> -e CORE_API_KEY=<CORE_API_KEY> -- npx -y [email protected]{
"mcpServers": {
"trove-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"[email protected]"
],
"env": {
"TROVE_CONTACT_EMAIL": "<TROVE_CONTACT_EMAIL>",
"UNPAYWALL_EMAIL": "<UNPAYWALL_EMAIL>",
"TROVE_DB_PATH": "<TROVE_DB_PATH>",
"SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY": "<SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY>",
"CORE_API_KEY": "<CORE_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"trove-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"[email protected]"
],
"env": {
"TROVE_CONTACT_EMAIL": "<TROVE_CONTACT_EMAIL>",
"UNPAYWALL_EMAIL": "<UNPAYWALL_EMAIL>",
"TROVE_DB_PATH": "<TROVE_DB_PATH>",
"SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY": "<SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY>",
"CORE_API_KEY": "<CORE_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"trove-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"[email protected]"
],
"env": {
"TROVE_CONTACT_EMAIL": "<TROVE_CONTACT_EMAIL>",
"UNPAYWALL_EMAIL": "<UNPAYWALL_EMAIL>",
"TROVE_DB_PATH": "<TROVE_DB_PATH>",
"SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY": "<SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY>",
"CORE_API_KEY": "<CORE_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Replace the values in angle brackets with your own. Keys stay on your machine; we never see them.
Tools
This server runs locally, so its tools are listed by your MCP client once it starts.
Environment variables
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
TROVE_CONTACT_EMAILOptional | Contact email for polite OpenAlex usage |
UNPAYWALL_EMAILOptional | Email required to enable Unpaywall open-access lookup |
TROVE_DB_PATHOptional | Path to the local SQLite cache and citation-snapshot database |
SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEYOptional, secret | Needed for reliable find_similar_papers |
CORE_API_KEYOptional, secret | Improves CORE full-text throughput |
Details
| Package | [email protected] (NPM, stdio) |
| First published | 14 Oct 2026 |
| Last updated | 14 Oct 2026 |
| Registry name | io.github.LalwaniPalash/trove-mcp |
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