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unpaywall for Zed

io.github.smaboundless/unpaywall

Open-access availability for 120M+ scholarly articles via the Unpaywall API

client:Zed transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install unpaywall in Zed

~/.config/zed/settings.json · windows: %APPDATA%\Zed\settings.json

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{
  "context_servers": {
    "unpaywall": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "unpaywall-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "UNPAYWALL_EMAIL": "<UNPAYWALL_EMAIL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Merge this into your existing settings object — do not replace the file. Zed docs

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