# crossref-mcp

> crossref-mcp — jtl-neo-crossref-api-mcp. Use this tool when you need to retrieve scholarly metadata from the Crossref REST API, enabling lookups of works, members, journals, and other academic resources. It solves problems related to accessing and verifying scholarly information, providing outputs such as metadata details and prefixes. Ideal for use in academic and research contexts, it accepts input queries and returns relevant metadata to support informed decision-making and knowledge graph construction.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/jtl-neo-crossref-api-mcp  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/jtl-neo-crossref-api-mcp

## Description

Enables scholarly metadata lookups from the Crossref REST API, including works, members, journals, funders, types, licenses, and prefixes, as tools for LLM clients.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.68
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-08-29

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** ai-ml
- **Updated:** 2026-08-29

## Source

- **Source listing:** [Glama](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/q5olwy9i9p)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/jtl-neo/crossref-api-MCP>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "jtl-neo-crossref-api-mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/jtl-neo-crossref-api-mcp` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/jtl-neo-crossref-api-mcp/pull`

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