The request names AcaTrove directly, so it comes first: it answers questions from your own papers with citations and drafts research statements, grant narratives and biosketches from the same record, and works with Zotero and ORCID 1. Its only indexed official door is an MCP server, and no actions have been read yet. For related academic-search and literature tools, Jina AI offers paper search returning BibTeX citations and arXiv search 5, and Firecrawl offers a paper-metadata search across
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AcaTroveacatrove.comwebsite read, tools not yet checked
Answers questions from the papers you choose with citations, drafts research statements, grant narratives and biosketches from one record, and works with Zotero and ORCID 1.
official:MCP server · AcaTrove
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Jina AIjina.aiverified and signed
Searches academic papers and returns BibTeX citations from DBLP and Semantic Scholar, and searches arXiv for papers and preprints 5.
for agents: search_bibtex · search_arxiv · deepsearch_query
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Firecrawlfirecrawl.devverified and signed
Searches paper metadata and abstracts with a natural-language query across an indexed academic corpus 3.
official:MCP server · Firecrawl MCP ServerSDK · firecrawl-anydocrepository · firecrawlskill · firecrawlSDK · firecrawl-py+47 community tools built for it
for agents: firecrawl-search · firecrawl-search · firecrawl_research_search_papers
Sources
- 1AcaTrove — Cited answers from your own papers, and the documents drafted from your recordacatrove.com · read 2026-10-29
- 3Firecrawl | Web Data API for AI Agentsfirecrawl.dev · read 2026-10-29
- 5Jina AI - Your Search Foundation, Supercharged.jina.ai · read 2026-10-29
For agents: the 10 actions behind this answer
· AcaTrove website read, tools not yet checked
Ask questions of your own papers and get answers with citations, then draft research statements, grant narratives, and biosketches from the same record. Citation checks match your draft’s citations to the papers in your library. Works with Zotero and ORCID.
baidu-scholar-search-skill · baidu-scholar-search-skill verified and signed
Baidu Scholar Search Tool enables the retrieval of both Chinese and English literature, covering various types of literature such as academic journals, conference papers, and dissertations.
firecrawl-search · firecrawl-search verified and signed
Find web sources with query-relevant page excerpts and optional full-page content, and discover workflows, data APIs, and indexes. Use for web research or finding structured records, listings, transcripts, and datasets. Supports semantic tool discovery, domain matching, and progressive catalogue bro
exa · exa verified and signed
Exa AI web search, deep research, and content extraction. Provides MCP tools and research skills for comprehensive web search, people discovery, company research, academic papers, and more.
search_bibtex · Jina AI verified and signed
Search for academic papers and return BibTeX citations. Searches DBLP (computer science) and Semantic Scholar (broad academic coverage) for comprehensive results. Returns formatted BibTeX entries ready to use in LaTeX documents.
Search Documents · lightpaper verified and signed
Full-text search across published documents with gravity-boosted ranking. e.g. Find articles about machine learning e.g. Browse recent publications
tako · Tako Docs verified and signed
Use when building AI agents that need grounded, real-time data
Discover tools · Pipeworx verified and signed
Search the tool catalog by task description to find the right tool without knowing its name in advance. An MCP tool call (discover_tools) reachable from the /mcp endpoint above. e.g. find SEC filings for a public company
brave_web_search · MCP-Brave-Search found in code, not yet checked
Performs a web search using the Brave Search API, ideal for general queries, news, articles, and online content.
custom_api_call · Algolia (Activepieces) verified and signed
Custom API Call — Make a custom API call to a specific endpoint
Labels are the instruments' verdict and are never changed by ranking. Agents and robots get this same answer as JSON at /api/v1/find?q=…&answer=1 and through the MCP server.