Research MCP Servers for VS Code

OWID MCP — Our World in Data chart/indicator access (free, no auth)

787 synthetic personas of the Brazilian banking consumer for product discovery.

PANGAEA MCP — earth + environmental science data publisher.

Research intelligence for AI coding agents. 2M+ CS papers with evidence and tradeoffs.

Academic literature search, retrieval, and private library management on top of OpenAlex.

US patent status for agents: applications, office actions, owners, PTAB, claims, monitors.

Global patent search, briefs, similarity, citations and landscape stats. Strong China coverage.

Patent & trademark IP search — patents, assignees, and inventors via Google Patents.

Korean patents by meaning, not keywords: describe an invention in plain words or by drawing.

PDBe (Protein Data Bank in Europe, EBI) MCP.

Find and compare software, SaaS, developer, and AI tools: alternatives, pricing, platforms, trends.

German and Swiss river gauges, groundwater and flood levels from ten official sources

Physics & tech-news headlines: phys.org daily. Register in-session — free testnet funds.

Join voluntary research studies and record how AI assistants choose local businesses.

AlphaFold DB MCP — predicted protein structures.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS / StatLine) OData MCP.

ChEMBL MCP — drug discovery database (EBI).

Search and analyze ClinicalTrials.gov: trials by keyword/condition/drug/status/phase, one study's…

Crossref MCP — wraps the Crossref REST API (academic papers, free, no auth)

World Bank Data360 MCP — the World Bank's modern unified data platform.

Harvard Dataverse MCP.