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One search across OpenAlex, PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, DBLP, INSPIRE and ERIC, de-duplicated, with open-access full text where it exists.

1 credit / call|search_papers, get_paper

Once connected, say this to your agent

Find 20 papers on microplastics in agricultural soil since 2020, open access first.

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Toolssearch_papers, get_paper

Example

YOU SAY TO YOUR AGENT

Find open-access papers on microplastics in agricultural soil since 2020.

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_papers({
  "query": "microplastics in agricultural soil",
  "year_from": 2020,
  "open_access_only": true,
  "limit": 5
})

{
  "summary": "5 papers for \"microplastics in agricultural soil\" from openalex, pubmed.",
  "records": [
    {
      "title": "Automated identification and quantification of invisible microplastics in agricultural soils",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156853",
      "source": "openalex",
      "license": "CC0-1.0",
      "data": {
        "doi": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156853",
        "authors": [
          "Weiqian Jia",
          "Aleksandra Karapetrova",
          "Mengjun Zhang"
        ],
        "year": 2022,
        "venue": "The Science of The Total Environment",
        "citedBy": 180,
        "retracted": false,
        "openAccess": true,
        "openAccessUrl": "https://escholarship.org/content/qt5x67x31c/qt5x67x31c.pdf?t=s09l9u"
      }
    }
  ],
  "credits_used": 1
}

What you get

  • Real records with DOI, authors, venue and citations
  • Open-access PDF links via Unpaywall

Good fit

  • Starting a literature review

Not for

  • Paywalled full text

Frequently asked questions

Your agent calls search_papers, get_paper over MCP. ScholarMuse queries OpenAlex, PubMed / Europe PMC, arXiv, bioRxiv / medRxiv, DBLP, INSPIRE-HEP, ERIC, Unpaywall 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.

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

Yes. The same tools (search_papers, get_paper) are available over the REST API.