Search academic papers from your AI assistant
One link connects your assistant to Arabic repositories and 18 international sources, with citations, open-access PDFs and full text.
https://www.arabic-scholar.engdawood.com/mcp
Connect your assistant in three steps
Copy the connector link
One link for every tool. You need no account to start, and you sign in with your email when you ask for the Arabic sources.
Add it to your app
In Claude, add a custom connector and paste the link. For other apps, copy the ready config.
Ask for the papers you need
Try: “Find recent open-access papers on Arabic NLP and cite the top three.”
Ask the way you would ask a colleague
No commands and no special syntax. Your assistant picks the tool, and Arabic Scholar fetches the papers.
- Find Arabic studies on the effect of e-learning on academic achievement since 2020, sorted by year.
- Find recent open-access papers on Arabic NLP, then read the best one and summarise its method.
- Cite this paper in APA 7: 10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2
- Which papers cite this study? Give me an open PDF link if there is one.
18 open international sources
Arabic Scholar searches these sources directly and returns one merged list with duplicates removed, each paper linked to its source.
- arXiv: Physics, math and CS preprints
- PubMed: Biomedical literature
- PubMed Central: Open-access biomedical full text
- Europe PMC: Life-science abstracts and full text
- bioRxiv: Biology preprints
- medRxiv: Health-science preprints
- Crossref: DOI metadata, all disciplines
- DBLP: Computer science bibliography
- OpenReview: ML conference papers
- HAL: French open archive
- Zenodo: CERN open repository
- OpenAIRE: European open-science graph
- DOAJ: Open-access journal articles
- IACR ePrint: Cryptology preprints
- zbMATH Open: Mathematics
- ERIC: Education research
- INSPIRE-HEP: High-energy physics
- Internet Archive: Books and texts (public-domain and lending library)
Arabic sources
Search Arabic scholarship with its own tools, or together with the international sources through search_all.
- Dar Almandumah
- ASJP
- SHAMAA
- Saudi Digital Library
- Egyptian Knowledge Bank
- e-Marefa
The main tools your assistant can call
- search_papers
- Searches several sources at once and removes duplicates
- search_all
- International and Arabic sources in one call
- get_paper_details
- A paper's record by DOI, arXiv id or PMID
- get_citing_papers
- Papers that cite a given work
- find_open_access_pdf
- Legal open-access PDF links
- read_paper
- Full text from a PDF, page by page
- cite_paper
- Citations in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard and BibTeX
- search_arabic_papers
- Dar Almandumah and Arabic repositories
- search_google_scholar
- Google Scholar in any language
Common questions
- What is Arabic Scholar?
- A connector that speaks MCP. It gives your AI assistant, such as Claude, tools to search, read and cite Arabic and international academic papers.
- Do I need an account or an API key?
- You need nothing to start: copy the link and add it to your app. The Arabic sources and Google Scholar ask you to sign in with your email once. You never need an API key, and use has a daily limit and a per-minute limit.
- Which Arabic sources does it cover?
- Dar Almandumah, the Algerian Scientific Journal Platform (ASJP), SHAMAA, the Saudi Digital Library, the Egyptian Knowledge Bank, e-Marefa and Arab university journals.
- Does it give me the full text of a paper?
- It looks for an open-access PDF and reads it page by page. When there is no open copy it returns the publisher page.
- Which apps does it work with?
- Claude, Claude Code, Cursor and any app that supports MCP over HTTP.
- Does it write or change anything in my accounts?
- No. Every tool is read-only.