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Crossref

DOI metadata, reference lists, journals, funders and publisher members.

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About this source

Crossref is the DOI registry for scholarly publishing. Resolve a DOI to full metadata, pull the reference list of a work, search journals and funders.

Questions you can ask Crossref

Type them into Kahubi’s chat once the source is connected.

Resolve these ten DOIs and give me complete metadata for my reference list.

What comes back: Titles, authors, journals, years and publishers straight from the DOI registry.

Find recent works that list the European Research Council as a funder in this journal.

What comes back: Works with DOIs and the funder information publishers deposited.

What the assistant can do with it

The 7 tools this server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.

  • crossref_get_work

    Resolves a DOI to its full Crossref metadata record: title, authors, affiliations, abstract (when deposited), journal or container, publication date, type, license, full-text li...

  • crossref_get_references

    Returns the outgoing reference list for a DOI - the works cited by this paper.

  • crossref_search_works

    Searches the Crossref works index (~155M records) by free text and/or structured filters.

  • crossref_search_journals

    Finds Crossref journal records by ISSN or title query.

  • crossref_search_funders

    Finds funders registered in the Crossref Funder Registry by name or funder DOI.

  • crossref_get_member

    Resolves a Crossref member ID to its publisher/organization record: primary name, alternate imprint names, owned DOI prefixes, registered DOI counts, a per-work-type breakdown,...

  • crossref_get_prefix

    Resolves a DOI prefix - the registrant portion of a DOI, e.g.

Good to know

  • Community server. An open-source server maintained by the MCP community. Kahubi tests it with live queries before listing it and health-checks it regularly.
  • Cited, checkable answers. Results are treated as retrieved material and cited with the source’s own identifiers, so you can open every record the answer relied on.
  • Your files stay private. Only the search the assistant writes for your question is sent to Crossref.

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