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_workResolves 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_referencesReturns the outgoing reference list for a DOI - the works cited by this paper.
crossref_search_worksSearches the Crossref works index (~155M records) by free text and/or structured filters.
crossref_search_journalsFinds Crossref journal records by ISSN or title query.
crossref_search_fundersFinds funders registered in the Crossref Funder Registry by name or funder DOI.
crossref_get_memberResolves 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_prefixResolves 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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