Scholar Gateway MCP Server

Scholar Gateway is a remote MCP server hosted by Wiley that connects MCP-compatible AI clients (such as Claude and Mistral Le Chat) to Wiley's scholarly content platform. The connector exposes semantic similarity search over more than 3 million peer-reviewed articles, including 300+ Life Sciences journals covering roughly 900,000 research papers. Responses come back with complete source metadata and DOI links so the calling agent can cite verifiable peer-reviewed sources rather than relying on training-data recall.

The server speaks Model Context Protocol over HTTP at https://connector.scholargateway.ai/mcp and authenticates users with OAuth 2.1 via Wiley's CONNECT SSO. Unlike open-source academic search MCP servers that scrape Google Scholar or wrap the Semantic Scholar API, Scholar Gateway is operated directly by the publisher and queries Wiley's licensed content with semantic (meaning-based) retrieval instead of keyword matching. Currently the service is text-only and intended for researchers in academic, clinical, corporate R&D, and pharmaceutical settings.

Scholar Gateway ships as an official connector in the Claude for Life Sciences marketplace under the plugin ID wiley-scholar-gateway@life-sciences. It is currently offered to institutional subscribers and through a limited free researcher trial that runs through June 30, 2026.

Tools

Prerequisites

• A free Scholar Gateway / Wiley CONNECT account (sign up at docs.scholargateway.ai)
• An MCP-capable client (Claude Pro, Claude Code, or Mistral Le Chat are officially supported)
• Institutional affiliation in academic, clinical, corporate R&D, or pharmaceutical research

Option 1: Claude (web / desktop) connector

1. Open Settings, Connectors.
2. Click Browse connectors and select Scholar Gateway (or Add to your team from Admin settings for Team/Enterprise).
3. Click Connect and authenticate with your Wiley CONNECT credentials via OAuth.

Option 2: Claude Code plugin

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/life-sciences
/plugin install wiley-scholar-gateway@life-sciences

Then restart Claude Code and run /mcp to verify the connection.

Option 3: Generic MCP client config

Point your MCP client at the remote endpoint and complete the OAuth flow when prompted:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scholar-gateway": {
      "url": "https://connector.scholargateway.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Notes

• Authentication uses OAuth 2.1 via Wiley CONNECT SSO; no static API key is required.
• Content is text-only; figures and tables are not returned.
• Some general prompts may not auto-trigger the connector; mention "Scholar Gateway" or "peer-reviewed literature" in the prompt to invoke it explicitly.

• Run literature reviews that return summarized findings with DOI-linked citations to Wiley journal articles
• Ground clinical or pharmacological questions in current peer-reviewed evidence rather than model training data
• Discover related research by meaning (semantic search) when exact keywords are unknown
• Pull primary-source citations into draft manuscripts, grant applications, or internal R&D reports
• Cross-reference Wiley results alongside other Life Sciences connectors (PubMed, Consensus, Benchling) for broader coverage

• "Use Scholar Gateway to find recent peer-reviewed studies on GLP-1 receptor agonists and cardiovascular outcomes, and list the DOIs."
• "Summarize the latest Wiley literature on CRISPR base editing in hepatocytes with citations."
• "Search Scholar Gateway for review articles comparing solid-state and lithium-ion battery electrolytes published in the last two years."
• "Find peer-reviewed evidence on the role of gut microbiota in Parkinson's disease and give me a citation-backed brief."
• "Pull supporting citations from Scholar Gateway for the claim that mitochondrial dysfunction contributes to ALS pathology."

• Official, publisher-operated connector with direct access to Wiley's licensed corpus of 3M+ peer-reviewed articles
• Semantic search returns meaning-matched passages, not just keyword hits, with verifiable DOI citations
• Remote hosted server with OAuth: no local install, dependencies, or scraping infrastructure to maintain
• First-class listing in the Claude for Life Sciences marketplace alongside complementary research connectors

• Coverage is limited to Wiley's portfolio; does not include Elsevier, Springer Nature, or open-access archives like arXiv
• Text-only output; figures, tables, and full-text PDFs are not returned through the connector
• Full access depends on institutional subscription or the limited free trial (active through June 30, 2026)

• Semantic Scholar MCP servers: Community implementations wrapping the Semantic Scholar API for cross-publisher academic search
• Google Scholar MCP Server: Open-source server that scrapes Google Scholar for broader (but unlicensed) coverage
• academic-search-mcp-server: Combined Semantic Scholar + Crossref MCP server for citation and metadata lookups