diff --git a/man/KorAPConnection-class.Rd b/man/KorAPConnection-class.Rd
index ad64dc9..0b14316 100644
--- a/man/KorAPConnection-class.Rd
+++ b/man/KorAPConnection-class.Rd
@@ -54,13 +54,27 @@
 
 \item{apiUrl}{URL of the KorAP web service.}
 
-\item{accessToken}{OAuth2 access token. To use authorization based on an access token
-in subsequent queries, initialize your KorAP connection with
-\code{kco <- new("KorAPConnection", accessToken="<access token>")}.
+\item{accessToken}{OAuth2 access token. For queries on corpus parts with restricted
+access (e.g. textual queries on IPR protected data), you need to authorize
+your application with an access token.
+How to obtain an access token for the DeReKo KorAP instance is explained in the
+\href{https://github.com/KorAP/RKorAPClient#authorization}{authorization section}
+of the RKorAPClient Readme on GitHub.
+
+To use authorization based on an access token
+in subsequent queries, initialize your KorAP connection with:
+
+\if{html}{\out{<div class="sourceCode">}}\preformatted{kco <- new("KorAPConnection", accessToken="<access token>")
+}\if{html}{\out{</div>}}
+
 In order to make the API
 token persistent for the currently used \code{KorAPUrl} (you can have one
-token per KorAPUrl / KorAP server instance), use
-\code{persistAccessToken(kco)}. This will store it in your keyring using the
+token per KorAPUrl / KorAP server instance), use:
+
+\if{html}{\out{<div class="sourceCode">}}\preformatted{persistAccessToken(kco)
+}\if{html}{\out{</div>}}
+
+This will store it in your keyring using the
 \code{\link[=keyring]{keyring()}} package. Subsequent new("KorAPConnection") calls will
 then automatically retrieve the token from your keying. To stop using a
 persisted token, call \code{clearAccessToken(kco)}. Please note that for
diff --git a/man/KorAPQuery-class.Rd b/man/KorAPQuery-class.Rd
index 1f0bca3..97000de 100644
--- a/man/KorAPQuery-class.Rd
+++ b/man/KorAPQuery-class.Rd
@@ -123,7 +123,12 @@
 
 \item{KorAPUrl}{instead of providing the query and vc string parameters, you can also simply copy a KorAP query URL from your browser and use it here (and in \code{KorAPConnection}) to provide all necessary information for the query.}
 
-\item{metadataOnly}{logical that determines whether queries should return only metadata without any snippets. This can also be useful to prevent access rewrites. Note that the default value is TRUE, unless the connection is authorized (currently not possible).}
+\item{metadataOnly}{logical that determines whether queries should return only metadata without any snippets. This can also be useful to prevent access rewrites. Note that the default value is TRUE.
+If you want your corpus queries to return not only metadata, but also KWICS, you need to authorize
+your RKorAPClient application as explained in the
+\href{https://github.com/KorAP/RKorAPClient#authorization}{authorization section}
+of the RKorAPClient Readme on GitHub and set the \code{metadataOnly} parameter to
+\code{FALSE}.}
 
 \item{ql}{string to choose the query language (see \href{https://github.com/KorAP/Kustvakt/wiki/Service:-Search-GET#user-content-parameters}{section on Query Parameters} in the Kustvakt-Wiki for possible values.}