diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b331929f..5c2adadc 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ question answering, summarization, and contradiction detection.
   - [Using External DB/Vector DB and Caching](#using-external-dbvector-db-and-caching)
   - [Reusing Index](#reusing-index)
   - [Running on LitQA v2](#running-on-litqa-v2)
+  - [Using Clients Directly](#using-clients-directly)
 - [Where do I get papers?](#where-do-i-get-papers)
   - [Zotero](#zotero)
   - [Paper Scraper](#paper-scraper)
@@ -603,6 +604,47 @@ async def evaluate(folder_of_litqa_v2_papers: str | os.PathLike) -> None:
     print(metrics_callback.eval_means)
 ```
 
+### Using Clients Directly
+
+One of the most powerful features of PaperQA2 is its ability to combine data from multiple metadata sources. For example, [Unpaywall](https://unpaywall.org/) can provide open access status/direct links to PDFs, [Crossref](https://www.crossref.org/) can provide bibtex, and [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/) can provide citation licenses. Here's a short demo of how to do this:
+
+```python
+from paperqa.clients import DocMetadataClient, ALL_CLIENTS
+
+client = DocMetadataClient(clients=ALL_CLIENTS)
+details = await client.query(title="Augmenting language models with chemistry tools")
+
+print(details.formatted_citation)
+# Andres M. Bran, Sam Cox, Oliver Schilter, Carlo Baldassari, Andrew D. White, and Philippe Schwaller.
+#  Augmenting large language models with chemistry tools. Nature Machine Intelligence,
+# 6:525-535, May 2024. URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-024-00832-8,
+# doi:10.1038/s42256-024-00832-8.
+# This article has 243 citations and is from a domain leading peer-reviewed journal.
+
+print(details.citation_count)
+# 243
+
+print(details.license)
+# cc-by
+
+print(details.pdf_url)
+# https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-024-00832-8.pdf
+```
+
+the `client.query` is meant to check for exact matches of title. It's a bit robust (like to casing, missing a word). There are duplicates for titles though - so you can also add authors to disambiguate. Or you can provide a doi directly `client.query(doi="10.1038/s42256-024-00832-8")`.
+
+If you're doing this at a large scale, you may not want to use `ALL_CLIENTS` (just omit the argument) and you can specify which specific fields you want to speed up queries. For example:
+
+```python
+details = await client.query(
+    title="Augmenting large language models with chemistry tools",
+    authors=["Andres M. Bran", "Sam Cox"],
+    fields=["title", "doi"],
+)
+```
+
+will return much faster than the first query and we'll be certain the authors match.
+
 ## Where do I get papers?
 
 Well that's a really good question! It's probably best to just download PDFs of papers you think will help answer your question and start from there.
diff --git a/paperqa/clients/unpaywall.py b/paperqa/clients/unpaywall.py
index 297cd0bf..beb1f406 100644
--- a/paperqa/clients/unpaywall.py
+++ b/paperqa/clients/unpaywall.py
@@ -158,6 +158,12 @@ async def search_by_title(
         return details
 
     def _create_doc_details(self, data: UnpaywallResponse) -> DocDetails:
+        # extract pdf location if present
+        pdf_url: str | None = None
+        license: str | None = None  # noqa: A001
+        if data.best_oa_location:
+            pdf_url = data.best_oa_location.url_for_pdf
+            license = data.best_oa_location.license  # noqa: A001
         return DocDetails(  # type: ignore[call-arg]
             authors=[
                 f"{author.given} {author.family}" for author in (data.z_authors or [])
@@ -174,6 +180,8 @@ def _create_doc_details(self, data: UnpaywallResponse) -> DocDetails:
             title=data.title,
             doi=data.doi,
             doi_url=data.doi_url,
+            license=license,
+            pdf_url=pdf_url,
             other={
                 "genre": data.genre,
                 "is_paratext": data.is_paratext,
diff --git a/paperqa/types.py b/paperqa/types.py
index 43ce8106..7d3a5ffc 100644
--- a/paperqa/types.py
+++ b/paperqa/types.py
@@ -334,6 +334,12 @@ class DocDetails(Doc):
     doi_url: str | None = None
     doc_id: str | None = None
     file_location: str | os.PathLike | None = None
+    license: str | None = Field(
+        default=None,
+        description="string indicating license."
+        " Should refer specifically to pdf_url (since that could be preprint). None means unknown/unset.",
+    )
+    pdf_url: str | None = None
     other: dict[str, Any] = Field(
         default_factory=dict,
         description="Other metadata besides the above standardized fields.",
@@ -570,17 +576,21 @@ def formatted_citation(self) -> str:
                 " to call `hydrate`?"
             )
 
-        quality = (
-            SOURCE_QUALITY_MESSAGES[self.source_quality]
-            if self.source_quality >= 0
-            else None
-        )
+        if self.source_quality_message:
+            return (
+                f"{self.citation} This article has {self.citation_count} citations and is"
+                f" from a {self.source_quality_message}."
+            )
+        return f"{self.citation} This article has {self.citation_count} citations."
 
-        if quality is None:
-            return f"{self.citation} This article has {self.citation_count} citations."
+    @property
+    def source_quality_message(self) -> str:
         return (
-            f"{self.citation} This article has {self.citation_count} citations and is"
-            f" from a {quality}."
+            SOURCE_QUALITY_MESSAGES[self.source_quality]
+            if self.source_quality is not None
+            and self.source_quality
+            != DocDetails.UNDEFINED_JOURNAL_QUALITY  # note - zero is a valid value
+            else ""
         )
 
     OPTIONAL_HYDRATION_FIELDS: ClassVar[Collection[str]] = {"url"}