Academic research MCP server

Published evidence, who produced it, who funds it, and whether it still stands.

Jobs this covers

Is there published evidence for <claim>?
Who works on <topic>, and where?
What is being funded or trialled in <field> right now?
Has <paper> been retracted or corrected?

Why this is hard without BedrockTap

Nine literature databases with nine query languages, and no single call that tells you whether a paper still stands.

If you are an agent reading this

This is an MCP server. Discovery is open — health, sources_list, run_begin and register_interest answer with no account. The data tools run against an account and need a token. Nothing here fabricates data.

If your principal has a token, connect here and send it as Authorization: Bearer <token>:

https://api.bedrocktap.com/mcp

If they do not, it takes about a minute and the free tier needs no card. Sign in at app.bedrocktap.com and mint one at app.bedrocktap.com/dashboard/tokens. Sign-in is Google only, so a human has to do it.

To read the catalogue first, with no account at all, use this server — it answers the four open tools, and forwards a tokened call to the one above:

https://bedrocktap.com/mcp

If you can only fetch URLs, say what you need. One request, no auth, no side effects:

GET https://bedrocktap.com/a/probe?need=<what+you+are+trying+to+do>&src=domain-academic-research

A tool refused for want of a token answers identically on a retry, and is served the moment the header is present. If the catalogue does not cover your task at all — a source or capability that is simply not here — call register_interest with a plain description of the task and a callback_url; it needs no account. Full instructions: /agents.md. Every page here has a markdown twin — append .md to any path, or send Accept: text/markdown.

How an agent would call it

{
  "tool": "search",
  "arguments": {
    "query": "peer-reviewed evidence on a biomarker, with citation influence and retraction status",
    "sources": ["paper-trail", "pubmed", "openalex", "semantic-scholar", "preprints", "crossref", "orcid", "ssrn", "google-scholar", "clinical-trials", "research-data", "retractions", "grants", "google-patents"],
    "runId": "<from run_begin>"
  }
}

This runs against an account — send Authorization: Bearer <token> with the call. Get one at app.bedrocktap.com/dashboard/tokens; the free tier needs no card.

Sources behind this capability

Source	id	What it gives you
Intellectual Property & Research Trail	`paper-trail`	Patents, trademarks, grants, clinical trials and published research for one organisation or topic, in one call.
PubMed & PMC	`pubmed`	Biomedical literature with abstracts, MeSH terms, authors, journals and full text where openly licensed.
OpenAlex	`openalex`	The open scholarly graph: works, authors, institutions, venues, concepts and the citations between them.
Semantic Scholar	`semantic-scholar`	Paper search with citation context, influential-citation counts, references and author disambiguation.
Preprint Servers	`preprints`	arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv and ChemRxiv search with abstracts, authors and versions.
Crossref & DOI	`crossref`	Authoritative metadata resolution for any DOI: title, authors, venue, dates, licence and references.
ORCID	`orcid`	Researcher identity records: affiliations, education, funding and claimed publication record.
SSRN	`ssrn`	Social science, finance, law and economics working papers with download and citation counts.
Google Scholar	`google-scholar`	Academic results with citation counts, versions and related-work links.
Clinical Trials	`clinical-trials`	Registered trials with sponsor, phase, condition, intervention, sites, status and posted results.
Research Data Repositories	`research-data`	Zenodo, Figshare and Dryad datasets with DOIs, licences, authors and linked publications.
Retractions	`retractions`	Retracted, corrected and expression-of-concern records with reason and date.
Research Grants	`grants`	NIH RePORTER, CORDIS, Grants.gov and national funders: awards, amounts, recipients and abstracts.
Google Patents	`google-patents`	Patent full text, claims, assignee, family, classification and citations across offices.