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Books & Papers MCP Server
Search books and papers; fetch open text; format citations
1718 ms
answered our call
- State
- Answered
- Protocol
- MCP 2025-06-18
- Tools listed
- 4
- Answered
- 4 of the last 4 calls
How to reach it
- MCP, HTTP
https://mcp.jmrp.io/libgen - MCP bundle
https://github.com/jmrplens/libgen-mcp/releases/download/v2.2.1/libgen-mcp-darwin.mcpb - MCP bundle
https://github.com/jmrplens/libgen-mcp/releases/download/v2.2.1/libgen-mcp-windows.mcpb - MCP bundle
https://github.com/jmrplens/libgen-mcp/releases/download/v2.2.1/libgen-mcp-linux.mcpb - Docker image
docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/jmrplens/libgen-mcp:2.2.1@sha256:e35ffd981c8de062315a72e31c007cd0774f0d5f39318c1d8fafedd570db2f40 - Docker image
docker run -i --rm docker.io/jmrplens/libgen-mcp:2.2.1@sha256:e35ffd981c8de062315a72e31c007cd0774f0d5f39318c1d8fafedd570db2f40 - npm
npx -y @jmrp.io/libgen-mcpReleased 6 Oct 2026, version 2.2.1 - PyPI
uvx libgen-mcpReleased 6 Oct 2026, version 2.2.1 - NuGet
dotnet tool install libgen-mcp
What it can do
| Tool | What it says it does |
|---|---|
download | Resolve a downloadable copy of a book or article. Provide md5 (book), isbn (book), doi (article). At least one is required. This server runs remotely and cannot write to your disk: download ALWAYS returns a direct link (a resource_link) to fetch yourself, never a saved file, and resolve_only is… |
get_details | Full metadata for one bibliographic record: identifiers, DOI, cover and related edition, plus ready-to-paste BibTeX and RIS exports in its citations field. Use it whenever a citation is requested. Look up by exactly one of md5, edition/file id, or an article's doi, taken from a prior search… |
read | Read a book or paper's text in chunks without downloading the whole file. Identify it by md5, doi, or absolute local path (local server only). PDFs paginate by page, EPUB/TXT by character offset. While has_more, re-call with the cursor. find returns matching passages instead of text. outline… |
search | Federated search for books, papers, comics, magazines and standards, returning per-result metadata, md5 and download links. Beyond the primary catalog it also reaches Anna's Archive and the keyless open-access providers, returned as a separate open_access array labeled by origin. The… |
In its maker's words
Federated search of books and papers, formatted citations, open-access retrieval and reading.
- Website
- jmrp.io/docs/libgen-mcp
- Source
- github.com/jmrplens/libgen-mcp
- Publisher
- jmrplens (2 listings in the registry)
- Listed from
- the official MCP Registry as
io.github.jmrplens/libgen-mcp - Version
- 2.2.1, updated 6 Oct 2026
- Kinds of work
- Search and research, Documents and files, Writing and translation
The domain it lives on
- jmrp.io
- registered 15 Dec 2022 (3 years ago), at Cloudflare, Inc, its home page is a working site
From our own crawl of domain names: registry records and the home page as our crawler last saw it.
Every call we made
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