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Search research data in DataCite, Zenodo, Dryad, Harvard Dataverse and Hugging Face.

1 credit / call|search_datasets

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Find open datasets of urban tree canopy with a CC BY licence.

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Toolssearch_datasets

Example

YOU SAY TO YOUR AGENT

Find open datasets on urban tree canopy.

On the right: the call your agent makes and the reply it got on 2026-10-13, shortened to the first records and a few of their fields.

search_datasets({
  "query": "urban tree canopy",
  "limit": 5
})

{
  "summary": "5 datasets for \"urban tree canopy\" from zenodo, dryad, dataverse, huggingface, datacite. data.license is the dataset's own licence when the repository states one (the record-level license covers the metadata).",
  "records": [
    {
      "title": "Diverging conditions of current and potential future urban forest patches",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.sn02v6x3k",
      "source": "dryad",
      "license": "CC0-1.0",
      "data": {
        "doi": "10.5061/dryad.sn02v6x3k",
        "creators": [
          "Danica Doroski"
        ],
        "year": 2021,
        "repository": "Dryad"
      }
    }
  ],
  "credits_used": 1
}

What you get

  • Dataset, size, format, licence and DOI

Good fit

  • Replication and secondary analysis

Not for

  • Restricted or registration-only data

Frequently asked questions

Your agent calls search_datasets over MCP. ScholarMuse queries DataCite, Zenodo, Dryad, Harvard Dataverse, Hugging Face Datasets and returns records, each with its source, licence and a link you can check.

No. It costs 1 credit per call, charged only when the call succeeds. A new account gets 50 credits once, valid for 30 days. The web version, Dataset finder, is free without an account, 5 runs a day.

Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and any other client that supports MCP.

Yes. The same tools (search_datasets) are available over the REST API.