# mendeley-mcp

> MCP server for Mendeley reference manager - search, retrieve, and manage your academic library

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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/mendeley-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Sudhakar Pallaprolu
- homepage: https://github.com/pallaprolus/mendeley-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/pallaprolus/mendeley-mcp
- version: 0.8.0
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: academic, citations, mcp, mendeley, reference-manager, research
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mendeley-mcp

### Description (declared)

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# Mendeley MCP Server

An [MCP (Model Context Protocol)](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) server that connects your Mendeley reference library to LLM applications like Claude Desktop, Cursor, and other MCP-compatible clients.

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## Features

- **Search your library** - Find papers by title, author, abstract, or notes
- **Manage folders** - Browse, create, rename, delete, and nest collections
- **Get full metadata** - Retrieve complete document details including abstracts
- **Search global catalog** - Access Mendeley's 100M+ paper database
- **DOI lookup** - Find papers by their DOI
- **Manage documents** - Add, update, delete, and organize entries across folders
- **Read your annotations** - Surface the highlights and notes you made on PDFs
- **Export BibTeX** - Generate citation entries for …

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

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mendeley-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T05:22:56.060Z)

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