Elsevier ScienceDirect MCP Connector for Claude

Connect to Elsevier ScienceDirect to empower your AI agent with the world's leading source of scientific, technical, and medical research. This MCP server allows for deep exploration of peer-reviewed literature, metadata retrieval, and access rights verification.

What you can do

• Search & Discovery — Use advanced Boolean queries via search_sciencedirect to find articles, journals, and books across the entire database.
• Full-Text & Abstracts — Retrieve complete article content or concise abstracts using get_article with PII, DOI, or Scopus IDs.
• Metadata & Citations — Fetch detailed metadata for institutional repositories or citation management using get_article_metadata.
• Journal & Book Insights — Access specific metadata for serials (ISSN) via get_serial_title and non-serials (ISBN) via get_nonserial_title.
• Access Verification — Check entitlements and hosting permissions using get_article_entitlement and get_hosting_permissions to ensure compliant content usage.

How it works

1. Subscribe to this server
2. Enter your Elsevier API Key (and optional Institutional Token)
3. Start querying scientific literature from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client

No more manual searching through web portals. Your AI acts as a research assistant capable of fetching precise data from the ScienceDirect ecosystem.

Who is this for?

• Researchers & Academics — instantly retrieve paper abstracts and full texts without leaving the research environment
• Data Scientists — automate the collection of metadata and subject classifications for literature reviews
• Librarians & Repository Managers — verify hosting permissions and entitlements for institutional compliance