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@@ -39,6 +39,14 @@ Listening on port 3000.
 Development mode features like JSON pretty printing and the GraphiQL interface
 will be enabled unless the server is run with `NODE_ENV=production`.
 
+Note that if you are not running the standalone server within another Node
+project, you may wish to install this package globally so that the `graphbrainz`
+script is globally available:
+
+```sh
+npm install -g graphbrainz
+```
+
 ### As middleware
 
 If you have an existing Express server and want to add this GraphQL service as