Research & Knowledge MCP servers

Read Bible verses and passages in 30+ translations, with reference lookup and a random verse

Get a research grade Tranco popularity rank and trend for any company domain.

Google holds #1 in 6 of 8 Arena categories; Anthropic in 2. OpenAI has no category in the top.

PLOS Search MCP — Solr-backed search over all PLOS journals.

Read/write a self-hosted Gramps Web family tree where every fact carries a citation.

Launch Library 2: upcoming and past rocket launches, missions, orbits, space events and agencies.

Detect whether a company declares, deploys, or charges for AI, with evidence.

Search public Ashby job boards: resolve a company, read its openings and the pay it publishes.

Open weights briefly beat every proprietary model in early 2025 (deepseek-r1); today the best.

Search ORCID researcher profiles, retrieve works, and export citations

Art MCP — Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection API (free, no auth)

Search US state archives' record images on CONTENTdm; read items, pages and transcripts.

NASA Exoplanet Archive: planet search, system planets, habitable candidates, discovery stats.

ETH Library Discovery API

Open-access availability for 120M+ scholarly articles via the Unpaywall API

OWID MCP — Our World in Data chart/indicator access (free, no auth)

qwen3.8-max trails claude-fable-5.1-max by 27 points. Over the past year the gap has stayed.

Search the Digital Public Library of America; reach the holding institution's record and images.

Cleveland Museum of Art open access: 60,000+ works, CC0 images, department and artist filtering.

OpenReview MCP — ML conference submissions and reviews (API v2)

Anthropic's SDK went from 34% to 97% of the OpenAI SDK's weekly npm downloads in 46 weeks. It.

Find which archive holds the papers: SNAC's index of archival collections, plus ArchiveGrid links.

Search ORCID researcher profiles, read affiliations and list published works - keyless.

OpenCitations MCP — citation index (COCI + general Index API).

Since Jan 2024, Google's models have been #1 on Arena for 227 of 1003 days, third among labs.

Genealogical research in the US National Archives Catalog: records, transcriptions, page images.

Search OpenAIRE for European research publications, datasets and funded projects - keyless.

OpenAlex MCP — wraps the OpenAlex API (scholarly works, free, no auth)