# mcp-dblp

> An MCP server that provides access to the DBLP computer science bibliography for LLMs.

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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/mcp-dblp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/szeider/mcp-dblp
- repository: https://github.com/szeider/mcp-dblp
- version: 2.0.3
- protocols: mcp
- tags: ai, bibliography, bibtex, citations, dblp, llm, mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mcp-dblp

### Description (declared)

# MCP-DBLP

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A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives Large Language Models access to the DBLP computer science bibliography (accompanying paper published at [AI4SC @ AAAI-26](https://www.tib-op.org/ojs/index.php/ocp/article/view/3161/3236)).

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## Overview

MCP-DBLP lets an LLM search DBLP through the Model Context Protocol and build a BibTeX file from the results. The model chooses the papers and the citation keys; the server writes the entries from DBLP's data, so the model never rewrites bibliographic fields.

Since version 2.0, MCP-DBLP works from a local copy of DBLP instead of the dblp.org web API, which now blocks automated clients. On first start the server downloads the local index, a prebuilt SQLite index of the monthly DBLP dump (about 1.3 GB, see [The local DBLP index](#the-local-dblp-index)). After that, all searches run locally, without rate limits.

## Features

- Boolean search with `and` and `or` (no parentheses), filtered by year and venue
- Fuzzy matching of titles and author names
- Author-aware ranking: each search result names the query words that matched an author, the title, or the venue, and marks prefix-only matches
- BibTeX in DBLP's own format, rendered from DBLP's data; it matches the `.bib` export on dblp.org except for the time of day in the `timestamp` field, and titles also brace words with inner capitals (`{CaDiCaL}`, `{DRUP}-based`) so that bibliography styles do not lowercase them
- Export of the collected entries to a `.bib` file, written by the s…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- research.academic (1, declared)
- data.database (0.768, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mcp-dblp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T01:19:57.647Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/mcp-dblp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/mcp-dblp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:mcp-dblp