Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:44:35 +0000
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Try cross ref? They have an API. https://www.crossref.org/ Lena Lena Bohman Senior Data Management and Research Impact Librarian Long Island Jewish - Forest Hills Liaison Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell [Learn to use Open Athens on the Library’s YouTube channel]<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ7OuwLufMv1_8OtFC8xzRUAXpXTqYInG> ________________________________ From: Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG> on behalf of Thomas Scharff <scharff_thomas_at_WHEATONCOLLEGE.EDU> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2025 11:18 AM To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG <CODE4LIB_at_LISTS.CLIR.ORG> Subject: [CODE4LIB] DOI Citation Verifier MCP Server [You don't often get email from scharff_thomas@wheatoncollege.edu. Learn why this is important at https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification ] EXTERNAL MESSAGE Hi folks, A couple weeks ago, I found the Open Library's MCP server <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsmithery.ai%2Fserver%2F%408enSmith%2Fmcp-open-library&data=05%7C02%7Clena.g.bohman%40HOFSTRA.EDU%7C49dec6519cb24ee5f5c908de156c4602%7Ce32fc43d7c6246d9b49fcd53ba8d9424%7C0%7C0%7C638971751937178356%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=sY1QfkpH%2FSMc6%2F%2FkU3SfjzaVupkA8FySiUlaldAQzxM%3D&reserved=0<https://smithery.ai/server/@8enSmith/mcp-open-library>> and hooked it up to Claude to make it stop hallucinating book titles when I use it for readers' advisory. Well, then I went looking for an MCP server that could do the same for articles and, finding none that really suited my use case (some providers have them for their own content), decided to make my own <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsmithery.ai%2Fserver%2F%40tfscharff%2Fdoi-mcp&data=05%7C02%7Clena.g.bohman%40HOFSTRA.EDU%7C49dec6519cb24ee5f5c908de156c4602%7Ce32fc43d7c6246d9b49fcd53ba8d9424%7C0%7C0%7C638971751937212492%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=oZVcafTia0x%2FMfa2B3lp447wdOPOSgt2oqo73yaaVew%3D&reserved=0<https://smithery.ai/server/@tfscharff/doi-mcp>>. The obvious drawback is that it's DOI-based, so it won't return articles without a DOI while using the MCP. I would expect that to be a bigger drawback in humanities than in other disciplines. You can always ask it not to use the MCP. You'll get hallucinations again, but you'll also get real results that don't have a DOI. Maybe at that point, you reach out to your librarian. 😁 Let me know if you have any suggestions for how I can improve it! I'm totally new to this. I just learned about MCP servers two weeks ago! 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