Crossref Metadata Search integrations

Connect Crossref Metadata Search to any other app, or use it from your AI client over MCP. Crossref is the DOI registration agency for scholarly publishing and exposes metadata for well over a hundred million journal articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, preprints, and datasets. A caller can look up a work by its DOI, search works by title, author, or full-text query, filter results by publication date, type, funder, or license, and list registered publishers, journals, funders, and their associated works. Responses include titles, authors with ORCID ids, publication dates, ISSN and ISBN values, reference lists, and citation counts. No credentials required.

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6 actions

What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.

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What do you want to automate with Crossref Metadata Search?

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Connect your AI client

Give your AI client this address.

https://mcp.apiant.ai

Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser.

Set it up in your client

Claude Code

Run this in the directory you want to work in.

claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai

Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.

Claude Code guide

Claude, web and desktop

Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first.

Setup guide

Cursor

Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser.

Setup guide

Zed

Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.

Setup guide

Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app

Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in.

Setup guide

Any other MCP client

Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection.

Setup guide

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What your agent can do with Crossref Metadata Search

Triggers and actions 6 actions

Action
Find funders by query
Search the Crossref Funder Registry for funding organizations matching a free-text query.
Action
Find works by query
Search Crossref's bibliographic metadata for works (articles, books, conference papers, etc.) matching a free-text query, with optional filters and sorting.
Action
Get funder
Retrieve metadata for a funding organization and its suborganizations by funder ID.
Action
Get journal
Retrieve information about a journal by its ISSN.
Action
Get member
Retrieve metadata for a Crossref member (publisher) by member ID.
Action
Get work by DOI
Retrieve full Crossref metadata for a single work given its DOI.

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Crossref Metadata Search, answered

Is there a Crossref Metadata Search MCP server?

APIANT's MCP server at https://mcp.apiant.ai works with Crossref Metadata Search. Add that address to any AI client that takes a remote MCP server, sign in once in your browser, and your client can build, test and run automations that use Crossref Metadata Search. Nothing to install.

What can your agent do in Crossref Metadata Search?

Any of Crossref Metadata Search's 6 actions, including Find funders by query, Find works by query, Get funder and Get journal. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

Which apps can Crossref Metadata Search connect to?

Any app in the catalog; the list on this page pairs Crossref Metadata Search with each of them. If the other app is missing, point your agent at its API documentation and it builds the connector.

What happens when something fails?

Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships.

Is there a free plan?

Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.