How to Use Kopernio

Visit the Kopernio website on either your Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Opera browsers-- https://kopernio.com

Click on the “Add to Chrome” or the "Accept Invite and get Kopernio" link if you used my invite link below at the end of this post.

Download the Kopernio plugin by clicking on the “Click here to download” link.

Follow the steps explained on the Kopernio installation page in order to install Kopernio on your browser. Don’t bother about the false positive alerts about the Kopernio plugin possible harming your PC. The plugin is actually harmless and the alarm is just a browser security feature.

Once you have the plugin installed, check the top right region of your browser page, you will see the Kopernio green icon, showing you the plugin has been successfully installed on your browser.

Once done, click on the “Verify Installation” link to verify if you have successfully installed Kopernio. This will redirect you to an article on Sciencedirect page.

If Kopernio is properly installed you will see a dialog box showing you “PDF found” and you can click to view it.
You should endeavour to register an account with Kopernio, by clicking on the "Create an Account" link.

After creating the account, customize your Kopernio account and link to your Institutions library by selecting your University from the drop down menu. If your Institution isn't listed, just select "Not Affiliated with a University" or "Free PDFs only". Many Institutions like Bayero University Kano, Ahmadu Bello University, University of Illorin, University of Ibadan etc are listed though.

If you can't find your University, you can send a request to Kopernio to add your University to the lists. Send a request email to help@kopernio.com

To start using Kopernio, search for a research article using your favourite tools such as Google Scholar, Web of Science, PubMed etc or search for the papers through the Kopernio search bar integrated into the browser plug-in.

Kopernio returns a “PDF Found" message if the article searched for is found. Click to open and read the article.
Opening the PDF with Kopernio gives you full access to the best and full version of the article available online.

The article is also automatically saved in your Kopernio Locker cloud account to be easily accessed by you at any time. You can equally decide to download the full-text article locally on your PC and also export the article as a reference in .RIS file format to be imported into a reference Management Software such as Mendeley, Zotero, EndNote, etc.

To change your Kopernio settings, click on the Kopernio browser plugin, and click on the “Settings” link. You can then modify or update your details as you wish.

You can equally click on the “Citations” link to choose a citation style you wish such as APA, Harvard, IEEE, etc. There are numerous Citation Style Languages supported by Kopernio.

Kopernio additionally offers Citation Metrics for various articles accessed through it.

Now here comes the best part, Kopernio offers to upgrade the free account (offering 100MB of cloud storage space) to a premium account if you get JUST ONE FRIEND to sign up to use Kopernio, through your personal invite link, such as this https://Kopernio.com/invite/66285278 (my personal invite link)

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