Research & Knowledge MCP servers

arXiv MCP — preprint server search (free, no auth)

Wikipedia page view statistics. No key required.

Art Institute of Chicago MCP — wraps the ARTIC public API (free, no auth)

Search Wikipedia, fetch article summaries, and get random articles from the Wikimedia REST API....

ACLED MCP — Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project

Wikidata entity search, lookup, and bounded SPARQL.

42matters MCP — wraps the 42matters App Market Data API (42matters.com)

Wellcome Collection catalogue search. No key required.

EMDB (EBI Electron Microscopy Data Bank) MCP — keyless.

Victoria and Albert Museum collection search. No key required.

eLife MCP — keyless open-access life-sciences & biomedical journal articles.

Open access links from Unpaywall. No key required.

CIA World Factbook MCP — country profiles from The World Factbook.

Open research from PLOS. No key required.

Global Peace Index — annual country peacefulness score and rank, for country-risk context…

Fossil occurrences and taxa from the Paleobiology Database. No key required.

Fragile States Index — annual country fragility score and rank, for country-risk context alongside…

Open research from the Open Science Framework. No key required.

PubTator 3 MCP — biomedical entity search, literature search with entity

OpenPlaques: public commemorative plaque records worldwide.

Use this MCP server to textfiles.com, the BBS era archive of zines, phreaking docs, and early...

Zyte API MCP — unified web fetch + AI extraction (zyte.com)

Use this MCP server to OpenAlex scholarly works, authors, institutions, and citations. Tools...

Rijksmuseum — the Dutch national museum's collection, via its open Data Services API…

Official list of top level domains from IANA. No key required.

Quran MCP — Al-Quran Cloud API. Surahs (chapters), ayahs (verses), translations, and full-text…

People currently in space from Open Notify. No key required.

Earth-observation imagery catalogue from Microsoft's Planetary Computer — search its open…