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CORE integrations

Connect CORE to any other app, or use it from your AI client over MCP. Access the world's Open Access research papers

Connects with an API keycore.ac.uk
10 actions

What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.

Build solutions, not workarounds.

What do you want to automate with CORE?

Ask the assistant

You'll sign in before anything runs. What you typed comes with you.

Connect your AI client

Give your AI client this address.

https://mcp.apiant.ai

One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser.

Set it up in your client
Claude Code

Run this in the directory you want to work in.

claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai

Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.

Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)
Claude, web and desktop

Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first.

Setup guide (opens in a new tab)
Cursor

Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser.

Setup guide (opens in a new tab)
Zed

Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.

Setup guide (opens in a new tab)
Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app

Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in.

Setup guide (opens in a new tab)
Any other MCP client

Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection.

Setup guide (opens in a new tab)

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What your agent can do with CORE

Triggers and actions 10 actions

  • Action
    Discover full text links

    Finds a link to the full text of a research paper from its DOI, searching CORE and other external sources for the best match.

  • Action
    Find data providers

    Searches CORE's data providers (repositories and journals that supply research papers) and returns the matching providers.

  • Action
    Find outputs

    Searches CORE research outputs (papers and other repository records) by title, author, DOI or a field query and returns the matching outputs.

  • Action
    Find works

    Searches CORE works (deduplicated research papers grouped across repositories) and returns the matching works.

  • Action
    Get data provider

    Returns the details of one CORE data provider (repository or journal), looked up by its CORE id or OpenDOAR id.

  • Action
    Get journal

    Returns a single CORE journal, looked up by its CORE identifier or by ISSN.

  • Action
    Get output

    Returns a single research output (paper) from CORE by its CORE ID, including its metadata, authors, abstract and links.

  • Action
    Get work

    Returns a single research work from CORE, including its title, authors, abstract, DOI, download link and full text.

  • Action
    List outputs of data provider

    Returns the research outputs harvested from a CORE data provider, optionally narrowed by a search query.

  • Action
    Recommend similar outputs

    Returns research outputs in CORE similar to a given paper, identified by its CORE ID or DOI, or described by its title, abstract, authors or free text.

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Questions

CORE, answered

Is there a CORE MCP server?

APIANT's MCP server at https://mcp.apiant.ai works with CORE. Add that address to any AI client that takes a remote MCP server and sign in once in your browser. Your client can then run CORE actions on demand, or have APIANT build, test and run automations that use CORE. Nothing to install.

What can your agent do in CORE?

Any of CORE's 10 actions, including Discover full text links, Find data providers, Find outputs and Find works. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

Can I use CORE directly from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor?

Yes. Connect your AI client to APIANT once and it works with CORE two ways. Ask it to do something in CORE once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running on its own. A one-off action uses your plan's tasks the same way an automation step does.

Do I need to write code against the CORE API?

No. APIANT connects to the CORE API for you, with your CORE API key. Describe what you want in plain language and your agent builds it on the CORE triggers and actions in the catalog. If you need an endpoint that is not there yet, your agent reads the CORE API documentation and adds it.

Which apps can CORE connect to?

Any app in the catalog; the list on this page pairs CORE with each of them. If the other app is missing, point your agent at its API documentation and it builds the connector.

What happens when something fails?

Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships.

Is there a free plan?

Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.