EndNote Click - formerly known as Kopernio - is a browser extension that helps provide direct access to electronic journal articles that University of Birmingham Libraries and Learning Resources subscribes to, or to an Open Access version. It functions similarly to LibKey Nomad, although unlike Nomad it requires users to set up a personal EndNote Click account before they can get started. Libraries and Learning Resources particularly recommends using EndNote Click if you are using the current version of EndNote Desktop.
If you are using the EndNote Desktop reference management software (e.g. EndNote 21 or EndNote 2025), EndNote Click may install automatically. If it does not install automatically you can initiate the installation within EndNote itself by going to the 'Tools' menu and selecting 'Install EndNote Click Browser Extension'.
If you are not a user of EndNote Desktop but would like to install the EndNote Click browser extension, you can do so by going to the relevant store for your web browser. EndNote Click is available on Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.
Once EndNote Click has installed you will be prompted to create an EndNote Click account. If you are not automatically prompted, select the EndNote Click icon in your browser's Extensions area and select 'Get Started'. You will then be prompted to to create a Click account.
Finally, once you have registered an EndNote Click account you will need to lookup and select University of Birmingham as your home institution.
You're now ready to start using EndNote Click. Just note that when you use EndNote Click off campus for the first time, you will be prompted to login to the library with your university credentials so that EndNote Click can connect to the university's subscriptions.
If you are browsing an article on a publisher's site and haven't logged in via FindIt@Bham, you may be met with a paywall when trying to access the full-text of an article.
However, this doesn't necessarily mean that University of Birmingham doesn't have subscribed access to the article, or that an Open Access version of the article is not available. If subscribed access or open access to the article is available, the following EndNote Click icon will appear in the bottom left corner of the browser.
Selecting 'View PDF' will open the article PDF within the 'My Locker' section of your EndNote Click account. From here you can download and/or print the PDF, or you can use the 'My Locker' functionality to manage the PDF in a different way (for example, saving the PDF and reference to your EndNote Desktop library). You can also choose to save the PDF to your locker, albeit you should be aware that there is a 100MB storage limit so we advise you manage what gets saved to your locker carefully. See the 'Using the EndNote Click Locker' section of this guide for more information.
The version of the article that the 'View PDF' button directs you to will vary depending on whether: Libraries and Learning Resources has subscribed access to the published 'Version of Record' (Figure 1 in the images below); whether the final 'Version of Record' has been published on an Open Access basis (Figure 2 in the images below); or where an Open Access version of the 'author accepted manuscript' (AAM) has been archived in a repository (Figure 3 in the images below). An AAM is likely to have been peer reviewed even if the content has not been formatted for publication. Hovering over the 'View PDF' button will give you an indication as to which version you will be linked to.
There will be occasions when EndNote Click cannot find a PDF for the article you are browsing on a publisher's website. In this scenario you will find that a 'Search Institution Library' tag appears instead of a 'View PDF' button. Similarly, when you hover over the 'Search Institution Library' tag there are crosses next to all the options to indicate the PDF hasn't been located.
When this happens, it does not necessarily mean that Libraries and Learning Resources does not have access to the full text of the article. It could be the case that Libraries and Learning Resources has subscribed access to the article via another platform that EndNote Click is not compatible with, or access is available from a platform that makes the full-text available in HTML form only. In this situation we recommend that you perform an Article Search within FindIt@Bham to check if Libraries and Learning Resources has full-text access to the article via another platform. The video below demonstrates how to perform an article search within FindIt@Bham.
Should FindIt@Bham confirm that Libraries and Learning Resources does not have access to the article, you can then explore whether to request an Interlibrary Loan. For more information on Interlibrary loans please see our Interlibrary Loans and Document Supply webpages, or watch the below video demonstrating how to use FindIt@Bham to make an Interlibrary Loan request.
As stated in the 'How to use EndNote Click' section of this guide, once you opt to 'View PDF' from EndNote Click, the PDF opens within your personal EndNote Click locker. You can choose to save the PDF to your EndNote Click locker by selecting the 'Save to Locker' button on the menu on the left-hand side, as exemplified in the screenshot below:
The advantage of saving to the EndNote Click locker is that it allows you to come back to your locker at any time to read the full-text of articles previously accessed. However, just be mindful that the locker area only comes with 100MB of storage, so you may want to be selective about which PDFs you save in this location.
When you access a PDF with EndNote Click, instead of saving to the Locker area, you may want to use the menu that appears to:
Use the menu that appears on the left-hand side of the page to select the feature you wish to use:
You can also access your EndNote Click Locker at any time by selecting the EndNote Click icon pinned to the top of your web browser, and selecting 'My Locker'.
You can use your EndNote Click locker to export articles into both EndNote Desktop and EndNote Online. This has the advantage of saving not just the reference information, but also the article PDF for that reference, into your EndNote library.
To do this, start by loading up the article you wish to export into EndNote within your EndNote Click locker. The menu that appears on the left-hand side of the page includes options to both 'Export to EndNote Desktop' and 'Push to EndNote Web'. Selecting 'Export to EndNote Desktop' will download the reference and PDF as a .RIS file. If you have EndNote Desktop installed, opening the .RIS file will automatically open EndNote Desktop and import the reference and PDF into your library. (Note that the screenshot below exemplifies downloading and opening the reference when working with Google Chrome).
Selecting 'Push to EndNote Web' allows you to export the reference and PDF to an EndNote Online account. The first time you select 'Push to EndNote Web' you will be prompted to login to EndNote Online.
You will then need to authorise the connection between your EndNote Click account and your EndNote Online account.
Once authorised, you will then be prompted to select which group in your EndNote Online library you would like to add the reference and PDF to.
The reference and PDF will then be pushed to your EndNote Online account (note that this won't automatically open your EndNote Online library). With the connection between your EndNote Click and EndNote Online accounts now established, the next time you want to push an article reference and PDF into EndNote Online you will notice that your EndNote Click menu has updated with an embedded option to select a group from your EndNote Online library to push the reference and PDF into.
Q. How do I uninstall or disable EndNote Click?
A. To uninstall, right click on the EndNote Click icon. On Google Chrome select 'Remove from Chrome' on the menu that appears.
You can also uninstall EndNote Click via your browser’s web extension store and select ‘remove from...’.
To disable EndNote Click (rather than uninstall it), right click on the EndNote Click icon and select 'Manage Extension'. On Google Chrome, for example, this will open up a menu that will allow you to switch EndNote Click off.
Q. Can I use EndNote Click with a reference management tool other than EndNote?
A. Yes, you can. As well as EndNote Desktop and EndNote Online, EndNote Click is also compatible with other reference management tools such as Zotero and Mendeley. To set up EndNote Click to integrate with a different reference management tool simply open your EndNote Click locker, select 'Settings', 'Customise', and open the drop-down menu in the section entitled 'Reference manager integration'.
Q. What is EndNote Click Premium?
A. The version of EndNote Click you download is a free version that comes with 100 MB of storage in the 'My Locker' area for the purpose of saving PDFs. EndNote Click Premium is a service that upgrades you to 2GB of storage. The Premium feature is unlocked when you refer a friend so that they start using EndNote Click as well. Unlocking Premium is entirely optional, but if you wish to refer a friend to unlock it you can access a personal referral code in the 'Account' area of your EndNote Click Locker. For more information visit the EndNote Click Premium webpage.
Q. How do I stop EndNote Click automatically saving PDFs to the My locker area?
A. While saving the PDFs to your EndNote Click Locker can be useful, this might lead to you maxing out your 100MB limit of storage over time. To prevent this, you can choose to switch the automatic saving of PDFs off (note that you can choose to manually save a PDF to your My Locker area when viewing the PDF in the PDF viewer). To ensure that the auto-save feature is turned off, open your EndNote Click account, go to 'Settings', and in the 'Locker Usage' section make sure that the tick box next to the 'Always save PDFs to my locker' option is unticked.
For more information visit the Clarivate webpage 'How can I choose which PDFs to save to my locker'.