Research & Knowledge MCP servers

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

Nobel Prize laureates, prizes, and years from the official Nobel API. No key required.

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

Estimate nationality from a first name. No key required.

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

NASA TLE satellite orbital data via tle.ivanstanojevic.me.

Coresignal MCP — LinkedIn-adjacent company + employee data (coresignal.com)

Search the NASA image and video library. No key required.

OSF (Open Science Framework, by the Center for Open Science) MCP. Keyless public-data API…

Earth photos from the NASA EPIC camera on DSCOVR. No key required.

Electricity Maps MCP — real-time electricity-grid carbon intensity + power generation mix for 200+…

Estimate age and gender from a first name using Agify and Genderize. No key required.

DPLA — the Digital Public Library of America.

Spaceflight launches, next launch, and astronauts.

DOAJ MCP — Directory of Open Access Journals

On this day history from MuffinLabs. No key required.

Dictionary MCP — wraps Free Dictionary API (free, no auth)

Search academic papers and read citations from Semantic Scholar. No key required.

DBpedia MCP — SPARQL + Lookup over Wikipedia-derived structured data

Earthquakes from the EMSC seismic portal. No key required.

Crossref MCP — wraps the Crossref REST API (academic papers, free, no auth)

Jewish texts from Sefaria. No key required.

CORE Research MCP — wraps CORE API (api.core.ac.uk/v3)

SatNOGS DB: satellite transmitter and observation data.

Armed-conflict deaths, active wars and violence events from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program…

Search the Library of Congress collections. No key required.

DBLP MCP — Computer Science bibliography

Search research articles and datasets on Figshare. No key required.