EndNote Click

EndNote Click is a straightforward browser extension that solves a specific pain point for researchers: getting to the full text of academic papers quickly. It sits in your browser toolbar and, when you land on an article page, it searches for the PDF. First it checks your institution's subscriptions, then it looks for open-access versions. The result appears as a single button you click to download the paper.

The tool is aimed at university students, professors, and anyone who regularly reads journal articles. It integrates with major search platforms like PubMed and Web of Science, and the button stays in a consistent spot across sites. Over 750,000 researchers already use it, and the Chrome Web Store rating sits at 4.8 stars. That kind of adoption speaks to its reliability.

There is no cost involved. EndNote Click is entirely free, which is rare for a tool this focused. The main limitation is browser support — only Chrome and Firefox are supported. If you use Safari or Edge, you are out of luck. It also does not include reference management features, so you will still need a separate tool like EndNote or Zotero to organize your citations. For what it does, though, it does it well.