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Research Connect

Connect your institution to authorized sources

One trusted AI connection for your whole institution.

Research Connect brings the scholarly sources your people are entitled to read, and your own repositories, into the AI tools they already use, with citations, provenance and access rights carried through. Researchers can start today with the Community Edition. Institutions and companies can have a connector in their own name.
Discuss your branded Research ConnectStart with the Community Edition
The Community Edition is live today in MCP-enabled AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude and Mistral.
Concept

Authorized sources

Publisher servicesRepositoriesLicensed servicesYour own MCP servers

Olive Turn University Research

Your institution’s connector, powered by Research Connect

  • Chosen sources
  • Full text and metadata
  • Member sign-in

Your members, in their AI tools

ChatGPTClaudeMistralOther MCP tools

For institutions

Your people already use AI. Give it your sources.

AI tools cannot see the journals and services your institution pays for, or what it keeps in its own repositories, so people settle for abstracts, snippets and guesses. Research Connect gives a university, library, research organization, association or company one connection to all of it.

One connector, in your name

Members add a single connector that carries your institution’s name, instead of setting up each source in each AI tool.

Your sources and repositories

Choose the publisher and knowledge services your members can use, and add your own repositories and internal systems. Our team sets them up with you, and any access details are stored encrypted.

Member sign-in

Members sign in with the identity they already use at your institution, and every article is checked against your institution’s entitlements.

Usage your library can report

AI usage in COUNTER Release 5.1.1 reports (platform, title and item), harvested with your own credential.

Repositories and internal systems

Outside sources and your own, in one place.

Much of an institution’s most valuable knowledge is its own: papers and theses in its repository, research data, internal reports. Research Connect connects to those systems too, so people reach everything they may read from the AI tool they already use.
  • Institutional and research data repositories, next to publisher and licensed sources.
  • Internal reports, document systems and any MCP server you run.
  • The same access checks, citations and usage reporting for every source, inside or outside.
  • Our team sets up each connection with you, including a bespoke connector where one is needed.

Outside your walls

  • Publisher services
  • Open scholarly infrastructure
  • Journal and database subscriptions

Inside your walls

  • Institutional repository
  • Research data and internal reports
  • Your own systems and MCP servers

One connector, in your name

Everything your people may read, brought together by Research Connect

Full text with citations, from both sides, in the AI tools people already use:

  • ChatGPT
  • Claude
  • Mistral
  • Other MCP tools

The member journey

From question to checked evidence.

How a member of your institution works with your connector.

  1. 1

    Discover

    A member finds your institution’s connector in their AI tool.

  2. 2

    Sign in

    They sign in with their institutional identity, once.

  3. 3

    Access is checked

    Each article is checked against what your institution is entitled to.

  4. 4

    Ask

    They ask questions in ChatGPT, Claude, Mistral or another AI tool.

  5. 5

    Receive evidence

    Answers come with citations, provenance and retraction notices.

When a publisher has no AI-ready service yet

Research Connect can still deliver the articles a member is entitled to read, using the access they already have. It never grants access a person does not have, and anything it cannot deliver comes back as a link to the publisher’s page.

Evidence, not snippets

Every article arrives with its context.

Your AI tool receives more than text. It gets what it needs to cite and interpret the research responsibly.
  • The citation: title, authors, journal and year.
  • Version and retraction notices, where the source records them.
  • Provenance: where the copy came from, how it was delivered and when.
  • The licence, where the source states one.
  • Instructions to cite from these fields and to flag retractions.

Research Connect works with publisher-provided services and open scholarly infrastructure, including Crossref, DataCite, GetFTR, OpenAlex and PubMed Central. It does not certify an article’s findings, and a missing retraction notice is not proof that an article is sound.

Evidence record Delivered
Citation
Verity, Oliveira and Locator (2026). Journal of Olive Turn Press 14(2)
Access
Entitled through your institution
Source
Publisher service, version of record
Retrieved
8 Nov 2026, 14:22 UTC
Retraction
None recorded by the source
Licence
As stated by the publisher
Usage
Counted for the library report

Where it fits

Built for the places research happens.

University library

Give every student and researcher one trusted connection to the sources you license, and see AI use in the COUNTER reports you already collect.

Professional association

Offer members AI access to your journals and partner sources as a member benefit, under your own name.

Company research teams

Give R&D, clinical and policy teams one place for their journal subscriptions and internal reports, with full articles, citations and provenance, inside their AI tools.

Community Edition, for researchers and professionals

Start on your own, today.

The Research Connect Community Edition brings the scholarly full text you are entitled to read into the AI tools you already use. Setup takes a few minutes.
  1. 1Create a loginSign up with your email, or connect without one.
  2. 2Add Research Connect to your AI toolIn ChatGPT, Claude, Mistral or another MCP-enabled AI tool, add a custom connector with this address:

Connector address

https://research-connect.oliveturn.com/mcp
  1. 3Choose your institutionSo every article is checked against your institution’s access.
Start with the Community Edition
research-connect.oliveturn.com/register
Research Connect Community Edition, live sign-up page.

Reporting for libraries

AI usage, in the reports libraries use.

Libraries and publishers see which articles AI tools checked, asked for and received, in the COUNTER format they already collect.
  • Platform, title and item reports in COUNTER Release 5.1.1 JSON, by complete month.
  • Harvested automatically with a credential for one institution or one publisher.
  • A public guide explains exactly what is counted, and what is not.
research-connect.oliveturn.com/counter
Research Connect, public COUNTER guide.

What we stand for

Legitimate access. Trustworthy evidence. User control.

Legitimate access

Content comes only through authorized, rights-respecting channels, including the subscriptions and entitlements people already have.

Trustworthy evidence

Articles arrive with their provenance, publication details and the integrity information available for them.

User control

People control their account, their institution and their research history, with clear disclosure of what is recorded.

Features

Community Edition for researchers. Your own edition for institutions.

  • Works in MCP-enabled AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude and Mistral, with setup steps for Cursor and VS Code
  • Access checks against your institution’s entitlements
  • Full text from open-access sources, publisher services and the access people already have
  • Enhanced metadata: citations, provenance and retraction notices with every delivered article
  • Publisher and research connectors, your repositories and your own MCP servers
  • COUNTER Release 5.1.1 reports of AI usage
  • One connector branded for your institution
  • An administrator console for sources, access and reports
  • Member sign-in with your institution’s single sign-on
Planning a pilot for your institution or company? Talk to us 
  • A publisher’s collection in Razeta  can be one of the sources an institution connects.

Questions

Asked early, answered plainly.

Does Research Connect give people access they do not already have?

No. It never grants access a person does not already have. It works only through authorized channels: open-access sources, publisher-provided services, and the subscriptions and entitlements people already have.

Which AI tools does it work with?

Any AI tool that supports MCP, the open standard AI tools use to connect to outside services. That includes ChatGPT, Claude, Mistral and others, through one connector address, with setup steps for Cursor and VS Code as well.

Is Research Connect a search engine?

Its main job is different: to get the full text of the research into your AI tool, with its citation and context. Your AI tool finds the works it needs, and Research Connect checks access and delivers them. It can also be fitted with a connector that does search, for example a search service your institution already subscribes to, so your AI tool can search through it as well.

How is usage reported to libraries and publishers?

As COUNTER Release 5.1.1 reports of AI usage (platform, title and item), which libraries and publishers harvest with their own credentials.

What happens to our members’ data?

Usage records keep only the publisher’s DOI prefix, never an IP address, an email address or an account. People can see and clear their research history, pause it with Incognito Mode, and export or delete their account.

Does it work with Razeta?

Yes. A publisher’s Razeta collection can be one of the sources Research Connect connects to, alongside many others. Neither product requires the other.

Bring your sources into AI, under your name.

Tell us about your institution, the sources your members rely on and the AI tools they use. We will show you where Research Connect fits today.

Discuss your branded Research ConnectStart with the Community Edition