# ScholarMuse > Academic capabilities for AI agents over one MCP server (https://scholarmuse.ai/mcp) and a REST API: verified references, paper search, grants, datasets, statistics, discipline databases and publication-ready scientific figures. Every result carries its source and license. ## Connect - [Connect guide](https://scholarmuse.ai/connect): Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, WorkBuddy, Trae, Qoder, CodeBuddy, Kimi Code, Qwen Code, Cherry Studio and any MCP client - [Install instructions for agents](https://scholarmuse.ai/install/agent.md): the setup steps an agent can follow by itself - [REST API](https://scholarmuse.ai/docs/rest-api): the same tools over HTTPS with an API key; OpenAPI at https://scholarmuse.ai/api/v1/openapi.json - [Pricing](https://scholarmuse.ai/pricing): plans and credits - [Full text](https://scholarmuse.ai/llms-full.txt): every capability, source and docs page in one file ## Docs - [API reference](https://scholarmuse.ai/docs/api-reference): Every ScholarMuse tool you can call over REST, with its arguments, discipline pack and credits per call. - [Credits](https://scholarmuse.ai/docs/credits): Calls are paid with credits, and a call is charged only when it succeeds. - [Discipline packs](https://scholarmuse.ai/docs/discipline-packs): What each discipline pack contains and how to switch packs on or off. - [Scientific figures](https://scholarmuse.ai/docs/figures): Figures are drawn in the background and usually take a minute or two. Here is how creating, fetching and editing work. - [Getting started](https://scholarmuse.ai/docs): Connect your AI agent to ScholarMuse in about a minute and run your first request. - [Privacy & data](https://scholarmuse.ai/docs/privacy-and-data): What ScholarMuse records about your calls, what it does not do with your requests, and how to disconnect an agent. - [REST API](https://scholarmuse.ai/docs/rest-api): Call ScholarMuse tools over HTTPS with an API key, for scripts and tools that do not use MCP. - [What your agent gets back](https://scholarmuse.ai/docs/results): Every record carries its source, licence, attribution and retrieval time, and you are told when a source did not answer. ## Capabilities - [Scientific figure maker](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/scientific-figure-maker): Describe a mechanism, workflow or study design. Your agent gets a publication-ready figure — labelled, on a clean background, ready for a paper or poster. Tools: create_figure, edit_figure, get_figure. Pack: General research. - [Graphical abstract maker](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/graphical-abstract-maker): Turn an abstract into a one-panel visual summary in the style journals ask for. Tools: create_figure, get_figure. Pack: General research. - [Verify references](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/verify-references): Check every reference against Crossref and OpenAlex. Flags invented papers and wrong DOIs, years and pages, with the correct value for each. Tools: verify_references. Pack: General research. - [Retraction checker](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/check-retractions): Find retracted papers, corrections and expressions of concern in any list of DOIs. Tools: check_retractions. Pack: General research. - [Search papers](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/search-papers): One search across OpenAlex, PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, DBLP, INSPIRE and ERIC, de-duplicated, with open-access full text where it exists. Tools: search_papers, get_paper. Pack: General research. - [Journal checker](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/journal-checker): Open access status, DOAJ listing, APC, output and warning signs for any journal. Tools: journal_info. Pack: General research. - [Find funded grants](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/find-grants): Search funded projects at NIH, NSF and UKRI by topic, investigator or institution — with amounts and abstracts. Tools: search_grants. Pack: General research. - [Find datasets](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/find-datasets): Search research data in DataCite, Zenodo, Dryad, Harvard Dataverse and Hugging Face. Tools: search_datasets. Pack: General research. - [Economic & social statistics](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/statistics): Find and fetch official series from FRED, World Bank, IMF, OECD, Eurostat, BLS, US Census and Our World in Data. Tools: find_series, get_series. Pack: General research. - [Gene & protein lookup](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/gene-protein-lookup): Function, domains, pathways, interactions and tissue expression for any gene or protein. Tools: lookup_gene_protein, search_expression_data. Pack: Life sciences & medicine. - [Protein structures](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/protein-structures): Experimental structures from RCSB PDB and predicted ones from AlphaFold DB. Tools: get_structure. Pack: Life sciences & medicine. - [Clinical trials search](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/clinical-trials): Search ClinicalTrials.gov by condition, intervention, phase and status. Tools: search_clinical_trials. Pack: Life sciences & medicine. - [Drugs & targets](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/drugs-targets): Targets, bioactivity, adverse events and labels from ChEMBL and openFDA. Tools: lookup_drug. Pack: Life sciences & medicine. - [Compounds & materials](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/compounds-materials): Properties and identifiers from PubChem and ChEBI; crystal structures, band gaps and stability from Materials Project, OQMD and COD. Tools: lookup_compound, lookup_material. Pack: Chemistry & materials. - [Historical weather data for any place](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/weather-history): Daily temperature, precipitation, humidity, wind and solar radiation for any coordinates since 1981. Tools: get_weather_history. Pack: Earth & environment. - [Air quality data for any place](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/air-quality): Measured PM2.5, PM10, NO2, O3, SO2 and CO from the monitoring stations nearest to any coordinates, as daily means for the dates you choose. Tools: get_air_quality. Pack: Earth & environment. - [Earthquake & water data](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/earthquake-water): Earthquake catalogues and stream-gauge readings from USGS. Tools: search_earthquakes, get_water_data. Pack: Earth & environment. - [Species occurrence](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/species-occurrence): Occurrence records from GBIF, filtered to openly licensed data. Tools: search_species_occurrence. Pack: Earth & environment. - [Exoplanets & stars](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/exoplanets-stars): Object lookups, the NASA Exoplanet Archive and Gaia catalogue queries. Tools: lookup_astro_object, search_exoplanets, query_gaia. Pack: Astronomy. - [Historical archives](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/historical-archives): Historical newspapers, manuscripts and images from the Library of Congress and Europeana, plus integer sequences from the OEIS. Tools: search_archives, lookup_integer_sequence. Pack: Humanities & math. ## Discipline packs - [General research](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/discipline/general-research): Papers, references, grants, datasets, statistics and figures. - [Life sciences & medicine](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/discipline/life-sciences): Genes, proteins, structures, clinical trials and drugs. - [Chemistry & materials](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/discipline/chemistry-materials): Compounds, properties and crystal structures. - [Earth & environment](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/discipline/earth-environment): Weather history, air quality, earthquakes, water and species records. - [Astronomy](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/discipline/astronomy): Objects, exoplanets and Gaia star catalogues. - [Humanities & math](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/discipline/humanities): Historical archives, newspapers and integer sequences. ## Guides - [PhD students](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/role/phd-students): For the years between a first literature search and a submitted thesis: your agent searches real papers, checks every reference, finds data and draws the figures. - [Postdocs](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/role/postdocs): Papers and a first grant at the same time: see what funders have supported in your area, check a journal before you submit, and keep references and figures in order. - [Professors & PIs](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/role/professors): For the work that lands on a PI: who is funded for what, whether the references in a student draft are real, and an overview figure for the next proposal. - [Librarians](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/role/librarians): For reference and research-support work: check a reading list for retracted papers, resolve doubtful citations, assess a journal and locate data, with the source on every record. - [Literature review](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/use-case/literature-review): Search real papers across seven indexes, remove retracted ones and keep every citation checkable, without leaving your agent. - [Grant writing](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/use-case/grant-writing): See what has been funded on your topic, by whom and for how much. Then support the case with papers and official statistics, and draw the figures. - [Claude](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/agent/claude): Add one connector in Claude.ai, or run one command in Claude Code, and Claude can check references, search papers and draw figures from real sources. - [Codex](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/agent/codex): Run codex mcp add once and sign in. Codex can then fetch datasets, official statistics and discipline records for the research code it writes. - [ChatGPT](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/agent/chatgpt): Add ScholarMuse to ChatGPT as a custom MCP server and sign in once. ChatGPT can then check a reference list, search the literature and look up journals and grants in real sources. - [Cursor](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/agent/cursor): Add one entry to ~/.cursor/mcp.json and sign in. Cursor can then bring datasets, gene and protein records and occurrence data into the analysis project you have open. - [Gemini CLI](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/agent/gemini-cli): Run gemini mcp add once, then /mcp auth. Gemini CLI can then pull weather records, earthquake catalogues, star and exoplanet tables and open datasets from the terminal. - [Antigravity](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/agent/antigravity): Add ScholarMuse to mcp_config.json and click Authenticate. Agents in Antigravity can then use official statistics, compound and trial records and archive material in the work they carry out. - [WorkBuddy](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/agent/workbuddy): Add ScholarMuse to WorkBuddy as a custom connector and sign in once in your browser. WorkBuddy can then check reference lists, look up journals and funded projects, and draw figures from real sources. - [Trae](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/agent/trae): Add ScholarMuse under Settings > MCP in Trae and sign in in your browser. The agent can then bring datasets, official statistics and discipline records into the analysis code it writes. - [CodeBuddy](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/agent/codebuddy): One codebuddy mcp add command in CodeBuddy Code, or one entry in the MCP tab of CodeBuddy IDE. After a browser sign-in, CodeBuddy can fetch statistics, datasets and discipline records for your scripts. - [Cherry Studio](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/agent/cherry-studio): Add ScholarMuse as a Streamable HTTP server in Cherry Studio and sign in in your browser. Whichever tool-calling model you use can then search papers, check references and draw figures. - [Qoder](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/agent/qoder): Add ScholarMuse to Qoder CLI, the Qoder desktop app or Qoder IDE and sign in once in your browser. Qoder can then bring official statistics, open datasets and field records into the analysis project you are working on. - [Qwen Code](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/agent/qwen-code): One qwen mcp add command and a browser sign-in. Qwen Code can then look up genes, protein structures, compounds and materials while it writes your bioinformatics or screening scripts. - [Kimi Code](https://scholarmuse.ai/capabilities/agent/kimi-code): Add ScholarMuse with /mcp-config and log in from the same prompt. Kimi Code can then find the paper you want to reproduce and fetch the catalogues and observations its analysis needs. ## Sources - [OpenAlex](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/openalex): The open catalogue of the world’s research: works, authors, institutions and venues. License: CC0. - [Crossref](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/crossref): Registration metadata for DOIs, including retractions from Retraction Watch. License: Open licence, attribution. - [PubMed / Europe PMC](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/pubmed): Biomedical citations and open-access full text. License: Public domain. - [arXiv](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/arxiv): Preprints in physics, maths, CS and more. License: Open licence, attribution. - [bioRxiv / medRxiv](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/biorxiv): Life-science and medical preprints. License: Open licence, attribution. - [DBLP](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/dblp): Computer science bibliography. License: CC0. - [INSPIRE-HEP](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/inspire-hep): High-energy physics literature. License: CC0. - [ERIC](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/eric): Education research from the US Department of Education. License: Public domain. - [Unpaywall](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/unpaywall): Legal open-access copies of papers. License: CC0. - [Retraction Watch](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/retraction-watch): Retractions and corrections, distributed by Crossref. License: Open licence, attribution. - [DOAJ](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/doaj): Directory of vetted open-access journals. License: CC0. - [NIH RePORTER](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/nih-reporter): Search 2.9 million NIH-funded projects by topic, investigator, institution or year — straight from your AI agent. ScholarMuse handles the API, paging and field codes; your agent gets clean, citable results. License: Public domain. - [NSF Awards](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/nsf-awards): US National Science Foundation awards. License: Public domain. - [UKRI Gateway to Research](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/ukri): UK Research and Innovation funded projects. License: Open licence, attribution. - [DataCite](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/datacite): DOIs for research data and software. License: CC0. - [Zenodo](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/zenodo): CERN’s open research repository. License: CC0. - [Dryad](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/dryad): Curated research data, all CC0. License: CC0. - [Harvard Dataverse](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/dataverse): Social science and multidisciplinary data. License: Open licence, attribution. - [Hugging Face Datasets](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/huggingface): Machine-learning datasets. License: Open licence, attribution. - [FRED](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/fred): Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis economic data. License: Open licence, attribution. - [World Bank](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/world-bank): World Development Indicators and more. License: CC BY 4.0. - [IMF](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/imf): International Monetary Fund data. License: Open licence, attribution. - [OECD](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/oecd): OECD statistics. License: Open licence, attribution. - [Eurostat](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/eurostat): Statistical office of the EU. License: Open licence, attribution. - [BLS](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/bls): US Bureau of Labor Statistics. License: Public domain. - [US Census](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/census): American Community Survey 1-year estimates for the US and its states. License: Public domain. - [Our World in Data](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/owid): Research and data on global problems. License: CC BY 4.0. - [NCBI Gene](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/ncbi-gene): Gene records from NCBI. License: Public domain. - [Ensembl](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/ensembl): Genome annotation. License: Open licence, attribution. - [UniProt](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/uniprot): Protein sequence and function. License: CC BY 4.0. - [InterPro](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/interpro): Protein families and domains. License: CC0. - [Reactome](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/reactome): Curated biological pathways. License: CC0. - [GTEx](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/gtex): Median gene expression across human tissues. License: Open access, cite GTEx. - [NCBI GEO](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/geo): Published expression and sequencing studies with their samples and platforms. License: Public domain. - [STRING](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/string): Protein–protein interaction networks. License: CC BY 4.0. - [RCSB PDB](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/pdb): Experimentally determined structures. License: CC0. - [AlphaFold DB](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/alphafold): Predicted protein structures. License: CC BY 4.0. - [ClinicalTrials.gov](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/clinicaltrials): Registry of clinical studies. License: Public domain. - [ChEMBL](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/chembl): Bioactive molecules and targets. License: Open licence, attribution. - [openFDA](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/openfda): FDA drug labels and adverse events. License: Public domain. - [PubChem](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/pubchem): Chemical structures and properties. License: Public domain. - [ChEBI](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/chebi): Chemical entities of biological interest. License: CC BY 4.0. - [Materials Project](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/materials-project): DFT-computed band gaps, formation energies and stability. License: CC BY 4.0. - [OQMD](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/oqmd): DFT-computed thermodynamics. License: CC BY 4.0. - [Crystallography Open Database](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/cod): Open crystal structures. License: CC0. - [NASA POWER](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/nasa-power): Solar and meteorological data. License: Public domain. - [OpenAQ](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/openaq): Measured air quality from monitoring stations and air sensors. License: Varies by data provider; see each station. - [USGS](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/usgs): US Geological Survey data. License: Public domain. - [GBIF](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/gbif): Species occurrence records. License: Open licence, attribution. - [NASA Exoplanet Archive](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/nasa-exoplanet): Confirmed exoplanets and parameters. License: Public domain. - [Gaia Archive](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/gaia): ESA Gaia astrometry. License: Open licence, attribution. - [SIMBAD](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/simbad): Astronomical object database. License: Open licence, attribution. - [Library of Congress](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/loc): Chronicling America and digital collections. License: Rights vary by item. - [Europeana](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/europeana): European libraries, archives and museums. License: Metadata CC0; rights vary by item. - [OEIS](https://scholarmuse.ai/sources/oeis): The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. License: Open licence, attribution. ## Free tools - [Citation checker](https://scholarmuse.ai/tools/citation-checker): Paste a reference list. Every entry is checked against Crossref and OpenAlex: references that do not exist, wrong years or DOIs, and retracted papers are flagged. - [Retraction checker](https://scholarmuse.ai/tools/retraction-checker): Paste DOIs or a reference list and see which papers have a retraction, a correction or an expression of concern. - [NIH RePORTER search](https://scholarmuse.ai/tools/nih-reporter-search): Search NIH-funded projects by topic in plain words, with investigators, institutions and award amounts. - [Journal checker](https://scholarmuse.ai/tools/journal-checker): Look up a journal by name or ISSN: publisher, open-access status, DOAJ listing, APC and h-index. - [Dataset finder](https://scholarmuse.ai/tools/dataset-finder): Search research datasets in Zenodo, Dryad, Harvard Dataverse, Hugging Face and DataCite in one go. - [Graphical abstract maker](https://scholarmuse.ai/tools/graphical-abstract-maker): Paste your abstract and an image model draws a one-panel graphical abstract from it.