scholar-sidekick
mlava/scholar-sidekick-mcp
Resolve scholarly identifiers (DOI, PMID, ISBN, arXiv and more) to CSL JSON, format citations in thousands of styles, or export to BibTeX, RIS or EndNote.
- Cloud integrations
Installation, supported tools and required credentials are maintained by the project.
Project details
- GitHub stars
- 11
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- MIT
- Forks
- 0
- Latest release
- v0.8.136d ago
- Activity
- updated 6d ago
- Platforms listed
- macOS, Windows, Linux
- academic
- arxiv
- bibliography
- bibtex
- citations
- claude
- crossref
- csl
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