web_search

MCP tool from Academia MCP by IlyaGusev

Unified search wrapper; available when at least one of Exa/Brave/Tavily keys is set.

How to use it

Project documentation lists web_search for the Academia MCP MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), then check which tools your installed version makes available. Tool availability can depend on configuration and credentials. A server handshake does not verify this tool’s behavior. See the full listing for setup details.

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Other tools in Academia MCP (14)

anthology_search

Search ACL Anthology with fielded queries and optional date filtering.

arxiv_download

Fetch a paper by ID and convert to structured text (HTML/PDF modes).

arxiv_search

Query arXiv with field-specific queries and filters.

compile_latex

Compile LaTeX to PDF in WORKSPACEDIR.

document_qa

Answer questions over provided document chunks (requires LLM).

download_pdf_paper

, reviewpdfpaper: Download and optionally review PDFs (requires LLM + workspace).

exa_web_search

, bravewebsearch, tavilywebsearch: Provider-specific search.

extract_bitflip_info

, generateresearchproposals, scoreresearchproposals: Research proposal helpers (requires LLM).

get_latex_templates_list

, getlatextemplate: Enumerate and fetch built-in LaTeX templates.

hf_datasets_search

Find Hugging Face datasets with filters and sorting.

read_pdf

Extract text per page from a PDF.

s2_get_citations

List papers citing a given arXiv paper (Semantic Scholar Graph).

s2_get_references

List papers referenced by a given arXiv paper.

visit_webpage

Fetch and normalize a web page.