CrossRef Connector for AI agents.

You can use it to find scholarly works, resolve DOIs to full metadata, and look up citation counts for millions of academic records across all scientific disciplines.

Yes, it covers journals, books, conference papers, datasets, and dissertations across all scientific disciplines.

You can use it to search for every publication by a researcher name across all major publishers simultaneously, sorted by relevance.

It allows your agent to pull full bibliographic data for multiple works at once, making it much faster to build out your research lists without manual data entry.

No, you can start resolving DOIs and searching scholarly works immediately after connecting the Connector to your AI client.

It's perfect for science writers who need to quickly verify publication details and ensure they are citing sources accurately.

A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a unique, permanent identifier assigned to every published scholarly work. like a social security number for academic papers. CrossRef maintains the world's largest DOI registry with 140M+ records, making it the authoritative source for bibliographic metadata across all publishers globally.

No. CrossRef's public API is free and open without authentication. Adding a polite email in the User-Agent header (which this server does automatically) grants access to the 'polite pool' with significantly faster response times.

CrossRef covers virtually every type of scholarly output: journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, preprints, datasets, dissertations, and technical reports. It aggregates metadata from 20,000+ publishers including Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, Oxford University Press, and thousands of smaller publishers worldwide.