Unpaywall MCP Server

Unpaywall MCP — open-access lookup for scholarly papers (free, no key)

Tools observed. Pod connected on 2026-09-05 and the server listed 33 tools directly. Verified.

Status

Pod connected to Unpaywall on 2026-09-05. It answered and listed its tools, responding in 3950ms.

It identifies itself as pipeworx-gateway version 0.1.0, speaking sse. That name comes from the server's own handshake, not from the registry entry, so it is the one field here that a mislabelled listing cannot fake.

Tools

Pod observed 33 tools when it connected:

• ask_pipeworx
• ask_pipeworx_beta
• ask_pipeworx_grounded
• search_within
• deep_research
• discover_tools
• resolve_entity
• compare_entities
• subscribe
• unsubscribe
• list_subscriptions
• recent_alerts
• entity_profile
• recent_changes
• validate_claim
• scan_dependency
• bet_research
• polymarket_arbitrage
• polymarket_edges
• polymarket_kalshi_spread
• polymarket_fill_risk
• polymarket_edge_tracker
• pipeworx_trending
• suggest_questions
• generate_llms_txt
• ai_visibility_check
• scan_competitor_ai_presence
• pipeworx_feedback
• remember
• recall
• forget
• get_oa
• search_papers

Connect

A hosted endpoint at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/unpaywall/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "unpaywall": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/unpaywall/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Firsthand observations

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