> 🇨🇭 **Part of the [Swiss Public Data MCP Portfolio](https://github.com/malkreide)** # 📚 swiss-academic-libraries-mcp [![PyPI version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/swiss-academic-libraries-mcp)](https://pypi.org/project/swiss-academic-libraries-mcp/) [![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) [![Python 3.11+](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.11+-blue.svg)](https://www.python.org/downloads/) [![MCP](https://img.shields.io/badge/MCP-Model%20Context%20Protocol-purple)](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) [![No Auth Required](https://img.shields.io/badge/auth-not%20required-lightgrey)](https://github.com/malkreide/swiss-academic-libraries-mcp) ![CI](https://github.com/malkreide/swiss-academic-libraries-mcp/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg) > MCP server providing access to Swiss academic libraries — swisscovery, e-rara, e-periodica, e-manuscripta. No API key required. [🇩🇪 Deutsche Version](README.de.md) ### Demo ![Demo: Claude using swisscovery_search and erara_list_records](docs/assets/demo.svg) --- ## Overview **swiss-academic-libraries-mcp** connects AI models to the full Swiss academic library infrastructure via standardised, open protocols. It covers the [swisscovery](https://swisscovery.slsp.ch) union catalogue (500+ libraries, 10M+ records) and three digitalisation platforms: historical prints ([e-rara](https://www.e-rara.ch)), periodicals ([e-periodica](https://www.e-periodica.ch)) and manuscripts ([e-manuscripta](https://www.e-manuscripta.ch)). All data sources use open, authentication-free protocols (SRU/MARC21, OAI-PMH/Dublin Core). The server supports both local use via Claude Desktop (stdio transport) and cloud deployment (Streamable HTTP). Beyond the catalogue, the server also covers **Swiss open-access legal literature** — freely readable legal scholarship from [sui generis](https://sui-generis.ch), [ex/ante](https://ex-ante.ch) and [Repositorium.ch](https://www.repositorium.ch) — as **metadata** (title, authorship, year, licence, DOI, link), never full text. It also adds the **international metadata layer**: DOI resolution and international research literature via [Crossref](https://www.crossref.org), and preprints via [arXiv](https://arxiv.org). This lets one conversation answer both *"is this held in Switzerland?"* (national layer) and *"what is this, and where else does it live?"* (international layer). Every resolved DOI returns title, ISSN, ISBN and authors as clean top-level fields, so you can pivot straight into swisscovery. **Anchor demo query (national ↔ international):** *"Find the original publication for this DOI, check whether a preprint version exists, and show whether a Swiss library holds it."* → `resolve_doi` → `search_preprints` → `swisscovery_search(query="")`. **Anchor demo query (catalogue):** *"Which Swiss university dissertations on primary school pedagogy are held in Swiss libraries, and are any of them digitised in e-rara?"* **Anchor demo query (OA legal literature):** *"Which freely accessible legal-scholarship articles exist on data protection in education? Give me title, authorship, year, licence and DOI."* → `oa_law_search(query="Datenschutz im Bildungsbereich")` — results are ranked by relevance: articles matching **all** terms rank first, articles matching only the core term (`Datenschutz`) follow, so the query returns the real privacy-law corpus rather than an empty set. --- ## Features - **16 tools** across 4 catalogue sources + 3 open-access legal-literature sources + 2 international metadata sources — all read-only, no API key required - **swisscovery search** with full CQL syntax: full-text, title, author, subject, ISBN/ISSN - **OAI-PMH harvesting** with date range and collection filters plus pagination via resumption tokens - **MARC21 parser** extracting 20+ fields (title, creator, publication info, subjects, abstract, URLs) - **Dublin Core parser** for all three digitalisation portals - **Dual transport**: stdio for Claude Desktop · Streamable HTTP for cloud/self-hosted deployments - **OA legal-literature search** across sui generis, ex/ante and Repositorium.ch with a declarative source registry (new sources = one config entry), best-effort Crossref licence enrichment, and graceful per-source degradation - **International metadata layer**: DOI resolution and bibliographic search via Crossref (polite pool via `CROSSREF_MAILTO`), preprint search via arXiv with automatic phrase quoting and request throttling — clean title/ISSN/ISBN/author fields for pivoting into swisscovery - **3 built-in prompts**: `research-workflow`, `education-research` and `doi-to-swiss-shelf` - **Markdown and JSON output** for all tools - **97 unit/mocked tests** (no network) + 30 live smoke tests --- ## Data Sources | Source | Protocol | Content | Records | |--------|----------|---------|---------| | [swisscovery (SLSP)](https://swisscovery.slsp.ch) | SRU / MARC21 | 500+ Swiss libraries | 10M+ | | [e-rara](https://www.e-rara.ch) | OAI-PMH / Dublin Core | Digitised historical prints | 250k+ | | [e-periodica](https://www.e-periodica.ch) | OAI-PMH / Dublin Core | Digitised periodicals (1750–today) | 1M+ articles | | [e-manuscripta](https://www.e-manuscripta.ch) | OAI-PMH / Dublin Core | Manuscripts & archival material | 100k+ | ### Open-Access legal literature (metadata only) | Source | Protocol | Content | DOI coverage | |--------|----------|---------|--------------| | [sui generis](https://sui-generis.ch) | OAI-PMH / Dublin Core | OA legal journal & non-profit publisher | ~100 % (`10.21257/…`) | | [ex/ante](https://ex-ante.ch) | OAI-PMH / Dublin Core | Peer-reviewed journal for (young) legal scholarship, multilingual | none (persistent URL) | | [Repositorium.ch](https://www.repositorium.ch) | Supabase / PostgREST (JSON) | Subject repository for Swiss law | partial | ### International metadata layer (metadata only) | Source | Protocol | Content | Licence | |--------|----------|---------|---------| | [Crossref](https://www.crossref.org) | REST / JSON | DOI resolution + international research literature | Metadata CC0 1.0 (public domain) | | [arXiv](https://arxiv.org) | Atom / XML | Preprints (CS, physics, maths, stats, …) | Metadata CC0 1.0; preprints per author licence | --- ## Tools | Tool | Source | Function | |------|--------|----------| | `library_info` | — | Entry point: overview of all sources and tools | | `swisscovery_search` | swisscovery | Full-text / CQL search across the union catalogue | | `swisscovery_get_record` | swisscovery | Single record by MMS-ID | | `erara_list_records` | e-rara | Prints filtered by date / collection | | `erara_get_record` | e-rara | Single item by OAI identifier | | `erara_list_collections` | e-rara | All participating libraries | | `eperiodica_list_records` | e-periodica | Articles filtered by date | | `eperiodica_get_record` | e-periodica | Single article by OAI identifier | | `emanuscripta_list_records` | e-manuscripta | Manuscripts filtered by date / collection | | `emanuscripta_get_record` | e-manuscripta | Single object by OAI identifier | | `emanuscripta_list_collections` | e-manuscripta | All archives / collections | | `oa_law_search` | OA legal (all 3) | Search OA legal scholarship (title/abstract/author) with source, language, year and peer-review filters | | `oa_law_get` | OA legal (all 3) | Single OA legal article by DOI or resolvable URL | | `resolve_doi` | Crossref | Resolve a DOI to full metadata (title/ISSN/ISBN/authors → pivot into swisscovery) | | `search_publications` | Crossref | Search international research literature; every hit carries a DOI | | `search_preprints` | arXiv | Search preprints with automatic phrase quoting; linked journal DOIs bridge to `resolve_doi` | ### Example Use Cases | Query | Tool | |-------|------| | *"Which books about Swiss primary schools are held in Swiss libraries?"* | `swisscovery_search` | | *"Show digitised historical works from ETH Library"* | `erara_list_records` | | *"Which Swiss periodicals were digitised in 2023?"* | `eperiodica_list_records` | | *"What manuscript collections does e-manuscripta hold?"* | `emanuscripta_list_collections` | | *"Which OA legal articles exist on facial recognition?"* | `oa_law_search` | | *"Resolve DOI 10.1038/nature14539 and give me its ISSN"* | `resolve_doi` | | *"Find recent preprints on model context protocol"* | `search_preprints` | | *"Find this paper's DOI, check for a preprint, and see if a Swiss library holds it"* | `resolve_doi` → `search_preprints` → `swisscovery_search` | --- ## Architecture Three independent paths share one HTTP client (retry with exponential backoff, shared connection pool, project `User-Agent`): ``` ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ swiss-academic-libraries-mcp │ │ (FastMCP · stdio / HTTP) │ └────────┬───────────────┬────────────────┬────────────┘ │ │ │ ┌── CATALOGUE ─────┘ ┌── OA-LEGAL ┘ ┌── INTERNATIONAL ──┐ │ (api_client.py) │ (oa_legal.py) │ (intl_metadata.py)│ │ │ │ │ ┌────────┴────────┐ ┌─────────┴──────────┐ ┌───┴──────────────────┐ │ │ swisscovery SRU │ │ source registry │ │ Crossref REST/JSON │ │ │ e-rara OAI │ │ ├ sui generis OAI │ │ ├ resolve_doi │ │ │ e-periodica OAI │ │ ├ ex/ante OAI │ │ └ search_publications│ │ │ e-manuscripta │ │ └ Repositorium REST│ │ arXiv Atom/XML │ │ └────────┬────────┘ │ harvest→cache→filter│ │ └ search_preprints │ │ │ │ Crossref licence ⟳ │ │ (phrase-quote+throttle)│ │ MARC21 / Dublin Core └─────────┬──────────┘ └───┬──────────────────┘ │ → catalogue records OaLegalPublication CrossrefWork / Preprint │ (metadata, no full text) (metadata, no full text) │ ``` - **Catalogue path** returns bibliographic records (books, digitised prints, periodicals, manuscripts). - **OA-legal path** harvests OA legal-scholarship metadata once, caches it in memory (small corpus), and filters locally — because OAI-PMH has no keyword search of its own. Adding a fourth OA source is a single registry entry, not new code. - **International path** resolves DOIs and searches Crossref/arXiv live (Architecture A — the endpoints are small, stable and public, so no dump/cache is needed). Each response carries its **own source attribution** (Crossref CC0 · arXiv acknowledgement), never a pooled one, and returns clean top-level title/ISSN/ISBN/author fields so the model can pivot into the catalogue path. A code-layer egress allow-list restricts outbound calls to `api.crossref.org` and `export.arxiv.org`. --- ## Licensing & Scope This server is deliberately conservative about what it emits — a portfolio that treats governance as a feature cannot be careless here. - **Metadata, not full text.** For OA legal literature the server returns **title, authorship, year, licence, DOI/link and — where the source provides it as a metadatum — the abstract**. It never ingests, stores, or outputs the article body. The full-text PDF path exposed by Repositorium.ch is intentionally *not* carried into any field. - **`licence` is always set.** Open Access means *free to read*, **not** *free to reuse*. Licences range from CC0 and CC BY to CC BY-NC-ND, and some articles are simply "free to read" with no open licence at all. When no machine-readable licence is available, the field is `"unknown"` — never guessed, never omitted. The native OAI metadata of all three sources carries only copyright statements, so `"unknown"` is the default; a best-effort **Crossref** lookup upgrades it to the real CC licence where a DOI resolves (e.g. sui generis → `CC BY-SA 4.0`). Disable with `OA_LAW_CROSSREF_ENRICH=0`. - **Citation integrity.** Every result carries a resolvable reference — a DOI where present, otherwise a persistent URL. No result is emitted without one. A fabricated citation in legal literature is worse than no citation, so the server prefers one hit fewer over one hit invented. - **Language is carried, never silently filtered.** ex/ante and Repositorium.ch are multilingual (DE/FR/IT/EN). The `language` field is always populated, but results are only filtered by language when you explicitly ask — otherwise half the Romandie would vanish from the results. - **Attribution per source, not pooled.** Crossref, arXiv and the OA-legal sources have different licence and citation conditions, so each response carries the attribution of the source it actually came from. Crossref bibliographic metadata is distributed under **CC0 1.0** (facts are free); arXiv metadata is **CC0 1.0** with the requested acknowledgement *"Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability"*; preprint and article full texts remain under their own per-work licences (never emitted here). - **Scope boundary.** OA legal literature belongs here because it is the *same capability* already in this server — authentication-free bibliographic-metadata harvesting of Swiss scholarly sources over standard protocols — with the same output contract (metadata, not full text). It is institution-independent and subject-focused, which is why it does **not** overlap [`eth-library-mcp`](https://github.com/malkreide/eth-library-mcp) (ETH-institution Discovery & Persons) — the catalogue finds the *book*, the OA-legal path finds the freely readable *article* with its licence and DOI. --- ## Known Limitations - **Small, focused corpus.** The three OA sources together hold on the order of a few hundred articles. Results are ranked by relevance — articles matching all query terms first, then partial matches — so a topical query like *"Datenschutz im Bildungsbereich"* returns the privacy-law corpus (ranked) rather than nothing; if no article covers the full topic intersection, the closest real matches are returned, never a fabricated one. A query that matches no term at all still returns an honest empty result. - **No full-text search.** Matching runs over metadata (title, abstract, authorship) only — never the article body. - **Uneven DOI coverage.** sui generis ≈ 100 %, Repositorium.ch partial, ex/ante has **no DOIs** (persistent URLs only). Aggregators (Crossref/OpenAlex) therefore cover sui generis well but miss ex/ante entirely and do not index Repositorium.ch as a source — which is why the server harvests each source natively rather than relying on an aggregator. - **Licence gaps.** The native metadata rarely carries a machine-readable licence; `"unknown"` is common and only lifted where a DOI resolves in Crossref. - **Not a substitute for a paid legal database.** This surfaces *freely accessible* Swiss legal scholarship only — it is not Swisslex/Weblaw and does not cover commercial or paywalled legal publishing. ### Known findings — international layer (live probe 2026-07-20) | Finding | Detail | Consequence | |---|---|---| | **Crossref is weak for German-language CH education literature** | `query.bibliographic=Lehrplan 21` returns a **book chapter from 1881** as the top hit; other CH-education queries surface millions of irrelevant results with off-topic/old top hits. Crossref is strong for DOI resolution and international research, not for CH education publishing. | `search_publications` documents this and points to `swisscovery_search` / `oa_law_search` for CH education topics. | | **arXiv treats spaces as OR, not phrase** | `all:model context protocol` → ~1,296,686 hits (OR); `all:"model context protocol"` → 462 hits (phrase). | `search_preprints` quotes the query automatically; users need no arXiv syntax. Field syntax (`ti:`, `au:`) and explicit quotes are respected. | | **arXiv returns Atom XML, throttles, and 301-redirects `http`→`https`** | Response is Atom, not JSON; arXiv asks for ~3 s between requests; the plain `http://` endpoint 301-redirects. | Parser reuses `defusedxml` (already a dependency — no new one); a module-level throttle (`ARXIV_MIN_INTERVAL_SECONDS`, default 3 s) enforces spacing; the client calls the `https://` endpoint directly. | | **SHARE (share.osf.io) — evaluated, not built** | The `_search` endpoint responds (≈58.9 M records, Elasticsearch-style), **but** SHARE wound down harvesting in 2020, archived its database in CurateND, and carries no API-maintenance commitment ("shutting down / new phase", now the "trove" search-api). For a portfolio positioned on reliability, an index without a support guarantee is a poor dependency. | **Not implemented.** | | **Open Library — evaluated, gate failed** | A 10-ISBN probe of real Swiss/German-language Lehrmittel (Lehrmittelverlag Zürich, Klett und Balmer; ISBNs harvested from swisscovery) returned **0/10 = 0 %** (threshold 60 %). Controls confirm Open Library works (English + mainstream German trade books resolve), so it is a genuine coverage gap, not a connectivity artefact. | **Not implemented.** swisscovery already covers CH Lehrmittel; for the book trade, GVI or a publisher directory is the fitting route. | --- ## Prerequisites - Python 3.11 or higher - [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) / uvx (recommended) or pip - Internet access (all APIs are publicly available) --- ## Installation ### Claude Desktop (recommended) Add to `claude_desktop_config.json`: **macOS:** `~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json` **Windows:** `%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json` ```json { "mcpServers": { "swiss-academic-libraries": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["swiss-academic-libraries-mcp"] } } } ``` Restart Claude Desktop — the server starts automatically on first use. ### Cloud / Self-hosted (Streamable HTTP) ```bash uvx swiss-academic-libraries-mcp --http --port 8000 [--host 127.0.0.1] ``` **Security & Deployment Notes** - **Default binding is `127.0.0.1`** (loopback only). The server has no built-in authentication. - Use `--host 0.0.0.0` only when running **behind a reverse proxy that provides authentication and per-IP rate limits** (e.g. nginx with `limit_req` + OAuth2-Proxy). Non-loopback bindings emit a WARN log. - Logs go to **stderr**; set verbosity with `MCP_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG|INFO|WARNING`. ### Development ```bash git clone https://github.com/malkreide/swiss-academic-libraries-mcp cd swiss-academic-libraries-mcp pip install -e . ``` --- ## Quickstart Start by calling `library_info` for a full overview. Then: ``` "Which books about Swiss primary schools are held in Swiss libraries?" → swisscovery_search(query='subject = "Volksschule"', max_records=20) "Show digitised historical works from ETH Library" → erara_list_records(set_spec="zut") "Which Swiss periodicals were digitised in 2023?" → eperiodica_list_records(from_date="2023-01-01", until_date="2023-12-31") "What manuscript collections does e-manuscripta hold?" → emanuscripta_list_collections() → [More use cases by audience](EXAMPLES.md) → ``` > 💡 *"No API key — just install and query."* ### CQL Search Syntax (swisscovery) ``` Full text: Volksschule Zürich Title: title = "education reform" Author: creator = "Pestalozzi" Subject: subject = "pedagogy" ISBN: isbn = "978-3-05-006234-0" Combined: title = "school" AND creator = "Pestalozzi" Pagination: start_record = 11 ``` --- ## Configuration No API keys required. All environment variables are optional. | Parameter | Default | Description | |-----------|---------|-------------| | `--http` | off | Enable Streamable HTTP transport | | `--port` | 8000 | Port for HTTP transport | | `MCP_LOG_LEVEL` | `INFO` | Log verbosity (`DEBUG`/`INFO`/`WARNING`) | | `OA_LAW_CROSSREF_ENRICH` | `1` | OA legal: DOI→licence enrichment via Crossref; set `0` to disable | | `OA_LAW_REPOSITORIUM_ANON_KEY` | *(public key)* | OA legal: override for Repositorium.ch's public read-only Supabase anon key (allows rotation without a code change) | | `CROSSREF_MAILTO` | *(unset)* | International: contact e-mail for Crossref's "polite pool" (better throughput). If unset, requests use the anonymous pool — functional, just slower. | | `ARXIV_MIN_INTERVAL_SECONDS` | `3.0` | International: minimum spacing between arXiv requests (arXiv asks for restraint). | --- ## Project Structure ``` swiss-academic-libraries-mcp/ ├── src/ │ └── swiss_academic_libraries_mcp/ │ ├── __init__.py # Package init │ ├── server.py # FastMCP server, 16 tools, 3 prompts, 3 resources │ ├── api_client.py # HTTP client (+ retry), MARC21 + OAI-PMH/DC parsers │ ├── oa_legal.py # OA legal-literature registry, adapters, model │ └── intl_metadata.py # International layer: Crossref + arXiv adapters, models ├── tests/ │ ├── test_server.py # catalogue unit tests + live smoke tests │ ├── test_20_scenarios.py # end-to-end catalogue scenarios │ ├── test_oa_legal.py # OA legal-literature tests (mocked + live) │ └── test_intl_metadata.py # International-layer tests (mocked + live) ├── pyproject.toml ├── CHANGELOG.md ├── CONTRIBUTING.md # Contributing guide (English) ├── CONTRIBUTING.de.md # Contributing guide (German) ├── SECURITY.md # Security policy (English) ├── SECURITY.de.md # Security policy (German) ├── LICENSE ├── README.md # This file (English) └── README.de.md # German version ``` --- ## MCP Protocol Version This server speaks **two protocol eras** over the same endpoint. The client's first request on a connection decides which one applies; a later claim from the other era is refused. | Era | Revision | Who reaches it | |---|---|---| | `initialize` handshake | `2024-11-05` … **`2025-11-25`** | What today's clients speak. The server answers with the revision asked for, or with the `2025-11-25` ceiling when the request asks for something newer. | | Per-request envelope | **`2026-07-28`** | A request carrying the `2026-07-28` `_meta` envelope opens a modern connection. | Both revisions are pinned in [`tests/test_protocol_version.py`](tests/test_protocol_version.py) and asserted against the installed SDK, so a Dependabot bump of `mcp` cannot move either one silently. Note that the SDK's `LATEST_PROTOCOL_VERSION` is an alias for the **modern** era, not for the handshake era — pinning against it alone would leave the era that current clients actually negotiate free to drift. **Measured, not just pinned.** The same gate opens both eras in-process against the very `MCPServer` object `main()` serves, and reads the answers off the wire: the modern connection negotiates `2026-07-28`, the legacy one caps at `2025-11-25`, and every one of the six spec methods this server answers (`tools/list`, `resources/list`, `prompts/list`, `resources/read`, `prompts/get`, `tools/call`) carries the modern envelope. An earlier version of this section claimed a measured test was impossible here because the repo builds no ASGI app. It never needed one. **Server identity on a modern connection.** `2026-07-28` has no `initialize` in which `serverInfo` would be stated once — the SDK stamps it into the `_meta` of **every** result (spec #3002). This server therefore fills that block from its own package metadata: `version`, `description` and `websiteUrl` are read via `importlib.metadata`, never from literals, so they cannot drift away from `pyproject.toml`. The SDK substitutes nothing of its own — before this was wired, the stamp read `{"name": "…", "version": ""}` on every single response while both version pins above stayed green. That is the gap a constant pin cannot see, and why the gate now measures. **Update policy.** When the gate fails, do not edit the constant blindly: read the spec changelog between the two revisions, verify the server still behaves, then move the constant, this section, `README.de.md` and [`CHANGELOG.md`](CHANGELOG.md) together. --- ## Testing ```bash # Unit tests (no network required) PYTHONPATH=src pytest tests/ -m "not live" # Live smoke tests (internet required) PYTHONPATH=src pytest tests/ -m "live" ``` ### Where the test data comes from The fixtures under `tests/fixtures/` are **recorded from the live sources**, with the same request parameters the production code sends, and dated. Source, retrieval date, selection rule and SHA-256 for every file: [`tests/fixtures/PROVENANCE.md`](tests/fixtures/PROVENANCE.md). ```bash python scripts/record_fixtures.py # re-record ``` This matters because a hand-written mock encodes its author's assumption and can therefore never refute it — production code and fixture come from the same reading of the docs. The invented `ListSets` response carried no `resumptionToken`, so no test could notice that nobody followed one: e-rara serves 105 collections in pages of 10, and the tool reported 10. Where a fixture is trimmed, the count fields (`numberOfRecords`, `completeListSize`, `total-results`) and the `resumptionToken` keep their real values — they say how much is *not* in the file. `tests/fixtures/oai_ex_ante_listrecords.xml` is deliberately **not** well-formed XML: ex/ante emits a raw control character inside a `dc:description`, and recording it verbatim is what proves `strip_invalid_xml_chars` is load-bearing. --- ## Safety & Limits - **Read-only:** All tools perform HTTP GET requests against public SRU and OAI-PMH endpoints — no data is written, modified, or deleted. - **No personal data:** The APIs return bibliographic metadata (titles, authors, publication info, subject headings) and public digitisation records. No personally identifiable information (PII) about library users is processed or stored. - **Rate limits:** swisscovery SRU and the OAI-PMH endpoints are public and have no documented hard limits, but OAI-PMH harvesting is paginated via resumption tokens — use `from_date` / `until_date` and keep `max_records` reasonable. The server enforces a 30s timeout per request. - **Data freshness:** Results reflect the upstream catalogues at query time. No caching is performed by this server; indexing latency is controlled by SLSP and the digitisation platforms. - **Terms of service:** Data is subject to the ToS and licences of each source — [swisscovery / SLSP](https://slsp.ch), [e-rara](https://www.e-rara.ch), [e-periodica](https://www.e-periodica.ch), [e-manuscripta](https://www.e-manuscripta.ch). Most digitised material is in the public domain or under Creative Commons licences; always check the rights statement on the individual record before redistribution. - **No guarantees:** This is a community project, not affiliated with SLSP, ETH Library, or any of the participating institutions. Availability depends on the upstream APIs. --- ## Contributing Contributions are welcome! Please read [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for guidelines on: - Reporting bugs and requesting features - Setting up the development environment - Code style and test requirements - Submitting pull requests This project follows the conventions of the [Swiss Public Data MCP Portfolio](https://github.com/malkreide). --- ## Security To report a vulnerability, please follow the responsible disclosure process in [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md). The server is read-only and requires no API key; see the *Safety & Limits* section above for the security model. --- ## Changelog See [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) --- ## Deployment for Swiss Public Administration If you self-host this server for a Swiss school authority, archive, or municipal use case: - **Data residency:** prefer on-premise or a CH-based cloud provider. The query patterns themselves (which library searches a civil servant runs) may reveal ongoing research and are best kept on Swiss infrastructure. - **Upstream calls** go exclusively to CH-hosted services: SLSP / swisscovery, ETH-Bibliothek (e-rara, e-periodica, e-manuscripta). No data leaves Switzerland. - **Logging:** logs are written to stderr; configure your IT retention policy accordingly (e.g. systemd-journal `MaxRetentionSec`). - **HTTP transport** must run behind a reverse proxy with authentication and per-IP rate limits (see *Security & Deployment Notes* above). --- ## License MIT License — see [LICENSE](LICENSE) --- ## Author Hayal Oezkan · [github.com/malkreide](https://github.com/malkreide) --- ## Credits & Related Projects - **Data (catalogue):** [swisscovery / SLSP](https://swisscovery.slsp.ch) · [e-rara](https://www.e-rara.ch) · [e-periodica](https://www.e-periodica.ch) · [e-manuscripta](https://www.e-manuscripta.ch) - **Data (OA legal literature):** [sui generis](https://sui-generis.ch) · [ex/ante](https://ex-ante.ch) · [Repositorium.ch](https://www.repositorium.ch) — licence enrichment via [Crossref](https://www.crossref.org). Each source's metadata is used under its own terms; open-access status does not imply an open reuse licence. - **Protocol:** [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) — Anthropic / Linux Foundation - **Related:** [eth-library-mcp](https://github.com/malkreide/eth-library-mcp) — ETH Library Discovery & Persons API - **Portfolio:** [Swiss Public Data MCP Portfolio](https://github.com/malkreide) | Server | Description | |--------|-------------| | [`zurich-opendata-mcp`](https://github.com/malkreide/zurich-opendata-mcp) | City of Zurich Open Data | | [`eth-library-mcp`](https://github.com/malkreide/eth-library-mcp) | ETH Library Discovery & Persons API | | [`swiss-statistics-mcp`](https://github.com/malkreide/swiss-statistics-mcp) | Swiss Federal Statistics (BFS) | | [`fedlex-mcp`](https://github.com/malkreide/fedlex-mcp) | Swiss Federal Law via Fedlex SPARQL | | [`swiss-transport-mcp`](https://github.com/malkreide/swiss-transport-mcp) | OJP journey planning, SIRI-SX disruptions | ## Installation Run via [`uv`](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/)'s `uvx` — no clone or manual install needed. Add to your MCP client config (`mcpServers` for Claude Desktop, Cursor and Windsurf; use a top-level `servers` key for VS Code in `.vscode/mcp.json`): ```json { "mcpServers": { "swiss-academic-libraries-mcp": { "command": "uvx", "args": [ "swiss-academic-libraries-mcp" ] } } } ```