Keenious

What is Keenious? 

Keenious is an academic literature discovery platform that uses artificial intelligence to recommend articles. The goal is not to replace traditional search methods, but to supplement them and provide more options to researchers.  

How does Keenious work? 

You can either use Keenious's website or the extension in Microsoft Word/Google Docs. Keenious looks at the text that you've written and uses artificial intelligence to match it to other articles. You can read about how Keenious makes recommendations here

How do I use Keenious? 

You can see Keenious’s help page here. You can use the free version of Keenious, but you can access the full version if you're a Nord student/employee or you are connected to Eduroam on campus. You can also access the full version Keenious from home by creating an account. Register using your Nord email address (ending in either @nord.no or @student.nord.no), verify your account and get started !  

  1. In your web browser: go to Keenious.com  
  1. Sign in to your account and either  
  1. Insert text into the text box and click search. As you add more text, the articles will get more specific. OR upload a PDF if you would like to find other articles similar to it. 
  1. You can search either for articles or to see relevant topics. 
  1. You can add filters such as citation minimum, publication year, and Open Access. 


In Microsoft Word/Google Docs  

  1. Go to "Add ins" on the home ribbon and type Keenious. Click on it to add it to your home ribbon. 
  1. Once you've got it, click Sign in to access the full version of Keenious. 
  1. Click either "upload PDF" and upload find articles similar to that PDF. Or click Explore using text to have Keenious scan through the text you've written and find articles similar to it. As you add more text, you can find more and more specific articles. You can also highlight a section of text to focus the search on that portion of your document. 
  1. You can search either for articles with filters such as citation minimum, publication year, and Open Access or see what topics Keenious has determined are relevant to your writing and find work there. 

There is no character limit for English texts. Non-English texts are restricted to 20,000 characters. Furthermore, Keenious provides a limited number of cross language-searches every day. To perform one of these, you can click on the “Cross Languages” search. Bøkmål is supported by this feature.  

Keenious's and data protection 

Per Nord University's artificial intelligence guidelines, AI solutions should not be used to process or store information that requires protection.  

You can read about Keenious's privacy policy and the information they collect here: https://keenious.com/legal/privacy-policy Keenious adheres to GDPR guidelines and does not share the information they collect unless required to by law.  

Contact person

Employee photo: Hannah Christine Sabo

Hannah Christine Sabo

Senior Research Librarian

Research and Development Division

Office: Bodø, Hovedbygget, 2508

Phone: +4775517507