APIs & MCPs

Research Solutions' APIs & MCPs offering provides the building blocks organisations need to embed trusted content access, citation intelligence, and rights-aware infrastructure directly into their platforms, AI tools, and internal systems. Designed for corporate R&D teams, research platforms, publishers, and developers, these APIs and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations make it straightforward to power modern, agentic research workflows without building custom infrastructure from scratch.

Whether you are constructing LLM-powered assistants, enriching a publishing platform, or connecting enterprise systems to licensed scientific literature, the APIs & MCPs suite from Research Solutions delivers the data services and integrations required to support discovery, compliance, and evidence-based decision-making at scale.

Core API and MCP Capabilities

• Integrate Article Access: Use Article Galaxy APIs to connect users to any article they need, routing requests seamlessly through subscriptions, tokens, or document purchases — covering both open access and paywalled content.
• Check and Acquire Rights: APIs provide clarity on what content can be used and how, enabling teams to stay compliant while supporting broader discovery and content re-use.
• Connect to Holdings via MCP: Integrate with the Article Galaxy MCP to surface articles your organisation already owns inside AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or any MCP-compatible environment.
• Citation Intelligence: Leverage Scite's citation context data, metadata, and reference checks at scale through an API purpose-built to support discovery, compliance, and evidence-based systems.
• Verifiable AI Answers: Enhance AI chat solutions with Scite Assistant's evidence-based responses grounded in real research, complete with citation context and quality indicators.
• Research Datasets: Access a broad range of structured datasets — including clinical trials, drugs, patents, grants, publications, device approvals, recalls, and more — through a single unified API.

Solutions by Use Case

• Internal Tools and AI Systems: Build LLM assistants, search engines, or R&D portals with plug-and-play access to credible content and citation intelligence. Augment AI with verifiable sources, citation intent data, and structured metadata that add transparency and rigour to every answer, delivering faster and more credible integrations that teams can trust.
• Research Platforms: Transform static metadata into an active research experience. With Scite and Article Galaxy, platform users can access both open and licensed articles, intelligent search, and citation-aware recommendations — providing discovery built on reliable academic infrastructure that drives trust and deeper engagement.
• Publishers: Enrich the reader and author experience by embedding citation-level insights directly into publishing platforms. Scite Badges and embedded citation search surface real-time context on how articles are cited without requiring custom infrastructure. Publishers using these tools have seen measurable increases in revenue alongside gains in discovery, engagement, and contributor value.

Key Benefits Across Workflows

• Rights-aware content routing ensures compliance across subscription, token, and purchase models.
• Citation context and intent data add transparency and academic rigour to AI-generated answers.
• A single API entry point for diverse structured research datasets reduces integration complexity.
• MCP compatibility enables direct integration with leading AI assistant platforms.
• Supports discovery, compliance, and evidence-based systems across publishing, research, and enterprise environments.

Research Solutions' APIs & MCPs are designed to integrate with existing platforms and AI toolchains, including MCP-compatible environments such as ChatGPT and Claude. The suite supports organisations across corporate R&D, higher education, government, and publishing, providing the infrastructure needed to deliver credible, rights-compliant, and citation-intelligent research experiences.