Scholar Gateway

Getting Connected

Platform notes:

Scholar Gateway works with Anthropic Claude Pro, Mistral Le Chat, and other AI Agents with compatible MCP support. We’re still testing other MCP compatible agents and currently offer official support for Claude Pro and Le Chat.

Connection details:

  • Server URL: https://connector.scholargateway.ai/mcp
  • Authentication: OAuth 2.1 (via CONNECT SSO)
  • Protocol: Model Context Protocol (MCP) v1.0

Setup steps:

  1. Configure your MCP client with server endpoint:
    https://connector.scholargateway.ai/mcp
    Refer to your agent’s documentation about connecting to MCP “Connectors” for agent-specific instructions.
  2. ‘Connect’ to the Scholar Gateway Connector from within your selected agent, e.g.:Claude Pro or Le Chat
  3. Authenticate using CONNECT credentials
  4. Be sure the MCP Connector is ‘enabled’ in your selected agent, e.g.: Claude Pro

Supported operations: semantic_search

Access and Authentication

Scholar Gateway is currently available to subscribers via institutional access and as a limited free trial to researchers, active through January 31, 2026. If you are interested in subscribing, please contact scholargateway@wiley.com.

Free Trial Eligibility requirements:

  • Valid institutional affiliation (academic, clinical, corporate R&D, pharmaceutical, etc.)
  • Active research role
  • Willingness to provide feedback on experience

Authentication Process:

Scholar Gateway uses CONNECT for authentication.

Don't have a CONNECT account? No problem - you can create one during the signup process, or sign-in with popular social logins like Google and Microsoft.

  • If you already have CONNECT: Sign in with your existing credentials
  • If you're new to CONNECT: You'll be guided through creating a CONNECT account to verify your institutional affiliation and research credentials

Why CONNECT authentication is required:

CONNECT authentication ensures that Scholar Gateway users have legitimate research credentials while protecting content access rights. This system allows us to:

  • Verify research community membership
  • Maintain content licensing compliance
  • Provide a secure bridge between your credentials and AI tools

Account setup:

  • Email: You can use either institutional or personal email addresses for your Scholar Gateway account
  • One account per researcher: If you have multiple institutional affiliations, you'll authenticate through your primary institution

Available Content

Scholar Gateway provides access to a growing selection of Wiley's research collection, including:

  • Peer-reviewed journal articles from Wiley's portfolio
  • Complete citation metadata and DOI links

Disciplinary coverage:

The collection spans disciplines from sciences and healthcare to business, law, and the humanities – with more content being added continuously to support the evolving needs of researchers.

Volume:

Over 3 million articles from more than 1,300 journals

Content format & limitations:

Text-only content: Scholar Gateway currently processes text content only. Images, graphs,charts, and multimedia elements are not included in search results or AI responses.

Content discovery & ranking:

Scholar Gateway uses semantic search to find the most relevant content based on your research questions. Content relevance is determined by cosine similarity score. Impact Factor or other journal metrics are not used as ranking factors.

Future content expansion:

Scholar Gateway is designed to become a comprehensive research platform. We're actively working with other publishers to expand available content based on researcher needs and user feedback.

Support & troubleshooting

Scholar Gateway has some current limitations we're actively working to improve:

  • Some queries may not automatically trigger Scholar Gateway – remember to specify that you want scholarly resources or to use Scholar Gateway when prompting your AI tool.
  • Content coverage derives from a limited set of articles (>3 million) from a selection of Wiley publications (> 1,300).
  • Scholar Gateway is currently available through Claude and Le Chat AI platforms, and you may need a Pro account to access the connector.
  • Scholar Gateway focuses on semantic similarity search, which retrieves passages based on meaning rather than just matching keywords. This helps surface more contextually relevant results. We're planning to add additional search options as we expand functionality.

Common setup issues:

  • Connection failed: Our service traffic threshold may have been exceeded; try your request again in a few minutes
  • Authentication errors:

Getting help:

Technical issues: Complete our contact form at https://support.scholargateway.ai/ with details about your setup and the specific problem

What to include in your support request:

  • Description of the issue
  • Which platform you're using (Claude Pro/Le Chat)
  • Steps you've already tried
  • Any error messages you're seeing