dsh-lit-search-mcp

MCP server for academic literature search, citation formatting (GB/T 7714 / APA) and BibTeX generation — Crossref + OpenAlex + Semantic Scholar, merged and deduplicated, no API key needed.

Thin MCP wrapper over dsh-lit-search (also available as a DeepSeek Harness plugin, a CLI, and a SKILL.md).

Tools

Tool	What it does
lit_search	Keyword search merged across Crossref / OpenAlex / Semantic Scholar, deduplicated by DOI, with citation counts. Options: limit, year_from, year_to, sort (citations/date/relevance).
lit_cite	Format a citation for a DOI: gbt7714 (default, Chinese standard), gbt7714-numeric, apa, bibtex.
lit_bib	Batch BibTeX entries for a list of DOIs (reports which DOIs failed).
lit_related	Related works for a DOI via OpenAlex.

Install

Claude Code:

claude mcp add lit-search -- npx -y dsh-lit-search-mcp

Any MCP host (Cursor, ChatGPT, ...):

{ "mcpServers": { "lit-search": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "dsh-lit-search-mcp"] } } }

Requires Node.js ≥ 20. Listed on the official MCP Registry as io.github.Flan246/dsh-lit-search.

License

MIT