Browser extensions
Save a paper from the page you found it on
Locus can fetch open-access papers on its own. It cannot reach the ones behind your university’s subscription — those are yours, not ours, and our server holds no credentials at any publisher. The extension runs where that access already lives.
Your access, not ours
The download runs in your browser with your session, so a paper your library subscribes to comes through exactly as it would if you clicked the PDF yourself.
Straight into the right project
Pick any project, or let it guess — open a paper from the research web and it defaults to the project you came from.
One paper at a time
No queue, no bulk collection, no background crawling. It saves the page you are looking at, which is what a subscription permits.
Pick your browser
None of these are in a store yet, so each loads the way an extension in development does. The steps differ more than you would expect, so they have a page each.
- Two minutes
Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera
One package for every Chromium browser. Load the folder, and it stays installed.
- Two minutes, every session
Firefox
Its own package — Firefox builds background scripts differently. Reloads each time Firefox restarts.
- Needs Xcode
Safari
Apple requires a signed Mac app, so the package is converted through Xcode first.
Using it
Open any article page and click the Locus icon. It reads the title and DOI off the page, offers your projects, and saves the PDF into the one you choose.
- Works on the publisher’s site, through your library proxy, or on a PDF already open in the tab.
- Defaults to the project you opened the paper from, and says so.
- Tells you plainly when a paper is one your account cannot reach.
Questions
Something not working, a publisher it does not recognise, or you would rather we sent you a build — tell us which browser and what you saw.