Connect Psychology Research to Claude
Query Psychology Research directly from Claude. Arlet links the two through one MCP connection and takes care of API keys.
A research assistant for psychology that covers what PubMed alone misses.
Tools:
- search_psychology_papers: OpenAlex restricted to the psychology field, so social, cognitive, developmental and clinical psychology journals outside the biomedical index are included. Returns title, authors, journal, year, DOI, citation count and open-access status.
- search_psyarxiv_preprints: PsyArXiv preprints on OSF, for work not yet in a journal.
- search_preregistrations: OSF Registries, to check whether hypotheses and an analysis plan were filed before data collection.
- search_education_psychology: ERIC, for education and educational-psychology literature.
Abstract handling: abstracts are returned only for open-access articles under a CC license. For everything else the record carries metadata and a link, because abstract text remains the publisher's copyright. ERIC summaries are written by ERIC itself and are always safe to quote.
OpenAlex requires an API key as of 2026-02-13 and bills against credits, so the key stays in your own Arlet environment variables and usage is attributed to you. The key is declared optional so the three key-free tools stay usable without it; search_psychology_papers reports clearly when it is missing.
How to connect Psychology Research to Claude
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In the Arlet dashboard, open Data tools, find Psychology Research and switch it on. No API key setup is needed.
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In Claude, open Organization settings → Connectors from the account menu at the bottom left, then click + Add.
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Choose Custom → Web, enter "Arlet" as the Name and https://mcp.arlet.dev/mcp/ as the Remote MCP server URL, then click Add. Authentication settings are auto-detected, so keep the defaults.
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The first time you use it, sign in with Google. After that, every service you switched on in Arlet is available from Claude.
Adding a connector is done by an organization admin on Team / Enterprise plans. On Pro / Max you can add it for yourself from Settings → Connectors with the same steps.