Keenious for Universities
Keenious makes academic research more accessible by removing barriers of language, technical expertise, and domain knowledge. Built in collaboration with universities, our platform helps students and researchers discover and understand scholarly literature across disciplines and languages.
Making Academic Research Accessible
Supporting the research journey, not replacing it
Breaking Down Language Barriers
Students and researchers can explore academic literature in nearly 100 languages, with AI providing explanations and context in their preferred language. This opens access to global scholarship that was previously inaccessible due to language limitations.
Simplifying Technical Complexity
Users can search using natural language instead of complex Boolean queries or database-specific syntax. This removes the technical expertise barrier that often prevents effective research discovery, making academic literature accessible to users at all skill levels.
Bridging Domain Knowledge Gaps
AI explanations help users understand complex concepts, methodologies, and terminology from unfamiliar fields. This enables interdisciplinary research and helps users engage with scholarship outside their primary area of expertise.
Maintaining Educational Standards
While removing access barriers, Keenious is designed to support learning rather than replace it. Users still engage directly with original sources, develop their own analyses, and create original work - just with better access to the literature they need.
Supporting Academic Principles
Enhancing the research journey without replacing critical thinking
Supporting Not Replacing
While other AI tools aim to do research for users, Keenious is designed to support the research journey. Users remain at the center of the process - developing their own insights, writing their own analyses, and building their own understanding.
Preserving Academic Integrity
We believe students and researchers should write their own thoughts and develop their own arguments. Keenious provides the tools to understand complex literature better, but the intellectual work remains with the user.
Positive Elements of AI
Our goal is to capture the benefits of AI - removing language barriers, explaining complex concepts, discovering relevant literature - while maintaining the essential academic processes of critical thinking and original analysis.
Research-Backed Approach
Keenious is designed to complement traditional search methods by helping users discover relevant literature without requiring specific keywords. Our approach addresses the challenge that researchers face when they lack the prior knowledge needed to formulate effective search terms.
Simple Implementation
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Quick Implementation
Get started in hours, not weeks. Thanks to OpenAlex integration and standard link resolver protocols, Keenious requires no complex data migration or system overhaul. Office 365 deployment lets you roll out the add-in to your entire university with just one click.
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Minimal IT Requirements
Designed to work with your existing authentication systems through IP recognition, institutional email domains, and standard protocols including SAML, Microsoft, and Google authentication. No new password systems or additional security infrastructure required, with minimal administrative overhead.
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Aligned with Educational Outcomes
Designed to encourage direct engagement with scholarly sources, proper attribution practices, and critical evaluation skills. The platform's focus on understanding rather than content generation aligns with information literacy frameworks and institutional learning objectives.
Our stances
Privacy and security
At Keenious, we take privacy and security seriously. Our goal is to only process and store the minimal amount of data we need to run our service. We are based in the EU/EEA and subject to GDPR and we do not store the text submitted to us by our users.
Accessibility
We are committed to providing inclusive experiences for all users. We understand the importance of accessibility and strive to ensure that our services are available to everyone, regardless of ability.
Purchasing Keenious
In order to help universities assess the potential value of Keenious for their institution, we offer a trial with the sole expense being the implementation fee for setup.
Once you are convinced of the value of Keenious, you can purchase a volume license based on the number of full-time equivalents (FTEs) of students and staff.
Together with you, we ensure success by providing education for staff and driving adoption through increased awareness throughout the institution.
Want to see Keenious in action?
Set up a meeting with our team today to see how Keenious can help your university. Fill out the form below to get started.
Questions? Answers.
While other AI tools focus on doing research for users, Keenious uses AI to enhance the research process while preserving the user's central role. We help users access and understand literature more easily, but they still engage with original sources, develop their own insights, and write their own thoughts and analyses. Our goal is to capture the positive elements of AI while maintaining academic integrity.
Keenious addresses three main accessibility barriers: language (supporting nearly 100 languages), technical complexity (natural language search instead of Boolean queries), and domain expertise (AI explanations of complex concepts and methodologies). This makes scholarly literature accessible to users regardless of their technical skills or field of study.
By making research more accessible, Keenious helps institutions support diverse student populations, including international students and those from different academic backgrounds. Users gain access to broader literature while still engaging with original sources and developing their own analytical capabilities.
There's a wide range of ways for you to assess Keenious. We recommend setting up a trial at your university so you can properly evaluate the tool as its meant to be used. Please schedule a meeting with one of the Keenious team members for help on the variety of options available to you and your university.
Keenious fits most institutions! Any institution that provides education informed by research may take advantage of Keenious. Customers of Keenious that see the value of the tool for their staff and students include research-intensive universities, universities of applied sciences, and university colleges. However, we have individual users benefitting from Keenious who hail from virtually all types of institutions. They span the range from upper secondary schools, vocational and trade schools, colleges, community and associate colleges, institutes of technology to distance, online and, lifelong learning institutions — just to name a few!