generated: '2026-09-06'
method: derived
source: >-
  openapi/elsevier-*-swagger.json — the seven first-party Swagger 2.0 documents harvested from
  https://dev.elsevier.com/elsdoc/ on 2026-09-06
status: candidate
provider: Elsevier
providerId: elsevier
description: >-
  Elsevier does not ship an MCP server. This is a CANDIDATE tool surface derived from Elsevier's
  own published operations so the gap is measurable — it is not something anyone can connect to,
  and no endpoint below is real.
deployment:
  mode: none
  endpoint: null
  install: null
  package: null
  auth: api-key
  verified: searched
search_findings:
  official_server: false
  searched:
  - the Elsevier developer portal (dev.elsevier.com) — no MCP, no agent, no LLM integration page
  - the ElsevierDev GitHub organisation — five repositories, all archived, none MCP-related
  - npm and PyPI for a first-party @elsevier / elsevier MCP package — none
  - '/.well-known/ discovery on every Elsevier host — no ai-plugin.json, no agent card'
  third_party_servers:
  - name: scopus-mcp
    url: https://github.com/qwe4559999/scopus-mcp
    first_party: false
  - name: elsevier-mcp
    url: https://lobehub.com/mcp/kemalabut-elsevier-mcp
    first_party: false
  third_party_note: >-
    Community MCP servers exist for Scopus and for the Elsevier developer APIs generally. They
    are independent projects that wrap the public API with a user-supplied ELSEVIER_API_KEY.
    They are recorded here as evidence of demand, NOT as an Elsevier agent surface, and no
    pointer is wired for them.
agent_access_note: >-
  Worth stating plainly alongside the absent server: dev.elsevier.com/robots.txt Disallows
  GPTBot, ChatGPT-User and Google-Extended from the entire developer portal, and every
  api.elsevier.com response carries a tdm-reservation header. Elsevier's current posture toward
  agents is a reservation of rights, not an interface.
candidate_tools:
- name: scopus_search
  rest: [ScopusSearch]
  path: GET /content/search/scopus
  description: Boolean search across the Scopus abstract and citation index.
  consequence: read
- name: sciencedirect_search
  rest: [ScienceDirectSearchV2]
  path: GET /content/search/sciencedirect
  description: Search ScienceDirect full-text serial and non-serial content.
  consequence: read
- name: author_search
  rest: [AuthorSearch]
  path: GET /content/search/author
  description: Find Scopus author profiles.
  consequence: read
- name: affiliation_search
  rest: [AffiliationSearch]
  path: GET /content/search/affiliation
  description: Find Scopus institution profiles.
  consequence: read
- name: get_abstract
  rest: [AbstractRetrieval, AbstractRetrievalEID]
  path: GET /content/abstract/{scheme}/{id}
  description: >-
    Retrieve a publication abstract record by DOI, EID, PII, PubMed ID, PUI or Scopus ID.
  consequence: read
- name: get_article_full_text
  rest: [ArticleRetrieval]
  path: GET /content/article/{scheme}/{id}
  description: Retrieve ScienceDirect full text, subject to entitlement.
  consequence: read
- name: get_author
  rest: [AuthorRetrieval, AuthorRetrievalid, getAuthorByORCID]
  path: GET /content/author/{scheme}/{id}
  description: Retrieve a Scopus author profile by author id, EID or ORCID.
  consequence: read
- name: get_affiliation
  rest: [AffiliationRetrieval]
  path: GET /content/affiliation/{scheme}/{id}
  description: Retrieve a Scopus institution profile.
  consequence: read
- name: get_citation_count
  rest: [AbstractCitationCount, CitationsOverview]
  path: GET /content/abstract/citation-count
  description: Cited-by counts and year-by-year citation overview for a document.
  consequence: read
- name: check_entitlement
  rest: [ArticleEntitlementRetrieval]
  path: GET /content/article/entitlement/{scheme}/{id}
  description: Ask whether the caller may read the full text of a given identifier.
  consequence: read
- name: get_serial_title
  rest: [SerialTitleSearch, SerialTitleMetadata]
  path: GET /content/serial/title
  description: Journal metadata and coverage by ISSN or title search.
  consequence: read
- name: scival_metrics
  rest: [authorMetrics, institutionMetrics, countryMetrics, topicMetrics, publicationMetrics, sourceMetrics, worldMetrics]
  path: GET /analytics/scival/{entity}/metrics
  description: SciVal research-performance metrics for an author, institution, country, topic, publication or source.
  consequence: read
  note: Requires a SciVal subscription; not part of the free non-commercial tier.
- name: counter_usage_report
  rest: [SUSHI reports]
  path: GET /sushi/reports/{report_id}
  description: COUNTER R5 / R5.1 usage statistics for a platform, database or title.
  consequence: read
  note: Access-controlled; not enabled on a key by default.
summary:
  tool_count: 13
  derived_from_operations: 98
  all_read_only: true
  server_published: false