labpubs

Publication tracking and retrieval for research labs.

labpubs automatically discovers publications from OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, and Crossref, deduplicates across sources, and stores them locally in SQLite. It supports funding/grant tracking, multiple export formats, GitHub-based verification workflows, and an MCP server for use with AI assistants.

Features

• Multi-source publication discovery (OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Crossref)

• Automatic deduplication across sources

• Funding and grant tracking

• GitHub Issues integration for human-in-the-loop verification

• Export to BibTeX, CSL-JSON, CV entries, and grant reports

• CLI interface and MCP server

• SQLite storage with no ORM dependencies

User Guide

• Getting Started
  • Installation
  • Quick Start
  • Python API
• Configuration
  • Full Configuration Reference
  • Researcher Configuration
  • Generating Configuration from CSV
  • GitHub Integration
• CLI Reference
  • Commands
• GitHub Issues Integration
  • Workflow
  • Setup
  • Issue Template
  • Enrichment Parsing
  • Labels
  • Verification Status
• MCP Server
  • Running the Server
  • Available Tools
  • Resources

API Reference

• API Reference
  • Models
  • Core Engine
  • Configuration
  • Store
  • GitHub Issues
  • Export
  • Source Backends