Paper Search MCP — A Practical Guide for Researchers and Developers Academic research often begins with a familiar challenge: finding reliable and up-to-date papers across multiple sources. Researchers may spend hours moving between platforms like arXiv, PubMed, or bioRxiv, only to repeat similar searches and manually organize results. Paper Search MCP was built to change this experience. This guide offers a complete walkthrough of what Paper Search MCP is, what it can do, how to install and configure it, and how it fits into different research and development scenarios. The goal is simple: provide you with a clear, trustworthy, and …
★From Paper to Poster in 30 Minutes: A Step-by-Step Guide to PosterGen★ “ “I spent two weeks tweaking my poster, only for my advisor to say, ‘Let’s start over.’” If that sounds familiar, the next twenty minutes will change how you prepare for every future conference. PosterGen is an open-source, multi-agent large-language-model (LLM) pipeline that turns a research PDF into a print-ready conference poster—complete with balanced layout, harmonious colors, and an editable PowerPoint file—without manual formatting. Below you will find everything required to run it locally or through a simple web interface, written for anyone with basic Python experience. 1. …
Research Agent — A Lightweight Assistant for Academic Search and Rapid Paper Reading At-a-glance summary Research Agent is a lightweight research assistant built with Streamlit. It integrates three practical capabilities into one interactive interface: quick literature lookup (arXiv-oriented search), webpage and abstract scraping, PDF text extraction (via PyMuPDF) and LLM-based summarization or hypothesis suggestion. The tool is intended to chain these steps into a single workflow so you can find papers, extract the useful sections, and generate concise summaries or draft hypotheses — all from a small local application. Who this is for Research Agent is designed for people who …