# artl-mcp

> PydanticAI and MCP approaches for getting textual representations of scientific literature from PMIDs, DOIs, etc.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/artl-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/contextualizer-ai/artl-mcp#readme
- repository: https://github.com/contextualizer-ai/artl-mcp#readme
- version: 0.34.0
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: doi, mcp, pmid, pubmed, scientific-literature
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:artl-mcp

### Description (declared)

# ARTL-MCP: All Roads to Literature

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server and CLI toolkit for comprehensive scientific literature retrieval and analysis using PMIDs, DOIs, PMCIDs, and keyword searches.

## Quick Start

### MCP Server (Recommended)

Add this to your Claude Desktop MCP configuration:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "artl-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["artl-mcp"]
    }
  }
}
```

### Standalone CLI

```bash
# Install and use CLI commands
uvx artl-cli get-doi-metadata --doi "10.1038/nature12373"
uvx artl-cli search-papers-by-keyword --query "CRISPR gene editing" --max-results 5
```

## Core Features

### 🔍 **Literature Search & Discovery**
- Keyword-based paper search with advanced filtering
- Recent publication discovery
- PubMed search with multiple output formats

### 📄 **Metadata & Content Retrieval**
- DOI/PMID/PMCID metadata extraction
- Abstract retrieval from PubMed
- Full-text access via multiple sources (PMC, Unpaywall, BioC)
- PDF text extraction and processing

### 🔗 **Identifier Management**
- Universal identifier conversion (DOI ↔ PMID ↔ PMCID)
- Support for multiple input formats (URLs, CURIEs, raw IDs)
- Comprehensive identifier validation

### 📊 **Citation Networks**
- Reference analysis (papers cited BY a given paper)
- Citation analysis (papers that CITE a given paper)
- Multi-source citation data (CrossRef, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar)
- Related paper discovery through citation networks

### 💾 **File Management**
- **MCP Mode**: Returns data directly without file saving (optimal for AI assistants)
- **CLI Mode**: Full file saving with path reporting and content management
- **Content size management** - large content automatically handled appropriately
- **Memory-efficient streaming** for large files (PDFs, datasets)  
- **Cross-platform filename sanitization**
- **Multiple output formats** (JSON, TXT, CSV, PDF) in CLI mode
- **Configurable directories** and temp file management in CLI mode

## Available MCP …

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- research.academic (1, declared)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/artl-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-09T09:23:45.906Z)

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