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:

Terminal

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

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

config.json

{ "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