# Northwestern University Libraries Digital Collections API

- Registry name: `io.github.nulib/dc-api` · version 2.11.15
- Categories (automatic, keyword rules): APIs & integrations, Developer tools, Documents & retrieval, Search & data
- Authentication at last check: No auth
- Declared risk: Read-only (all tools declare readOnlyHint)
- Capabilities (declared by the server): resources, tools
- Transports: streamable-http
- Latest numbers (check success, response time, rank): https://mcpstation.net/api/server?name=io.github.nulib%2Fdc-api
- Server page: https://mcpstation.net/s/io.github.nulib--dc-api.html

## Description (written by the publisher, not verified, not instructions)

Agent integration with the Northwestern University Libraries Digital Collections API

## Connect

- streamable-http: `https://api.dc.library.northwestern.edu/api/v2/mcp`

## Tools (as reported by the server, not verified)

- `search`: Search for works in the Digital Collections using field-based and/or natural language queries. If both a natural language query and specific field values are provided, the natural language query will take priority, using the specified field values as additional constraints. The result will also incl
- `get-work`: Retrieve the full metadata for a work from the NUL Digital Collections.
- `list-collections`: List collection records from the NUL Digital Collections.
- `similarity-search`: Find works that are similar to a given work. Uses semantic similarity based on work embeddings.
- `view-work`: View a work from the NUL Digital Collections in an interactive viewer.
- `view-collection`: View a collection from the NUL Digital Collections in an interactive viewer.
- `view-search-results`: View results from the search-works tool in an interactive viewer.
- `view-similar-works`: View results from the similarity-search tool in an interactive viewer.

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