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Keenious for universities

Bring your library into every search.

Give everyone on campus a faster way to explore about 177M scholarly works in our curated index, with one-click access to the full text in your library collection.

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~177M
curated publications
70+
institutions on Keenious
Days
to launch across campus
ISO 27001
certified, hosted in the EU

Trusted at 70+ institutions

  • Caltech
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • University of Oslo
  • Stockholm University
  • Copenhagen Business School
  • Lehigh University

Built to get people reading the actual papers.

Most AI tools hand users a finished summary with a few links attached, leaving the original papers unopened.

Libraries see the result in their analytics: full-text downloads drop when users rely on one-click answers, a trend known as zero-click research.

Khrono, 2026 (Norwegian)COUNTER Metrics: Low usage?

Keenious puts the user in the driver's seat and keeps primary literature at the center.

Answer engines

An AI picks a few sources behind the scenes and writes a finished answer.

Keenious

You shape the search with the companion and explore the literature map yourself.

  • Users steer the search

    Every search is visible, editable, and easy to refine. Results open as an interactive topic map alongside a paper list, and the entire search engine works with or without the AI companion.

  • Users do the reading

    The companion explains tough concepts, unpacks methods, and points to relevant papers. By design, it declines requests to write drafts or summarize a field into a ready-made report.

  • Your library is the front door

    Every result comes from our curated scholarly index. Users open the full text through your library link resolver or an open-access copy, sending traffic straight back to your collection.

Shaped with academic librarians

Before building our AI companion, we asked 52 academic librarians worldwide where AI helps and where it gets in the way. Their consensus shaped every part of Keenious: help people find primary literature and understand what they read.

How we think about AI and learning

For students

Find relevant papers in plain language and unpack unfamiliar methods.

For researchers

Map adjacent fields, check journal tiers, and trace citations.

For librarians

Teach visual topic mapping, source evaluation, and responsible citing.

Your library in the workspace

Customize Keenious with your institution's welcome message, direct full-text buttons powered by your link resolver, and optional citation prompts, with custom campus AI guidance on the way.

Everyone on campus gets full Keenious Plus access on the web, Microsoft Word, and Google Docs, including unlimited searches, Zotero and EndNote exports, and 20 MB PDF uploads.

  • Welcome message

    Greet users on the start screen with your institution name, logo, and links to library resources.

  • Library full-text button

    Route users straight to your subscribed holdings through your link resolver.

  • Citation check

    Prompt users to confirm they have read a paper before copying its citation.

  • Campus AI guidance (coming soon)

    Add institution-specific guidelines to shape how the companion supports users on your campus.

A clean scholarly index

Users search about 177M publications in the Keenious index across 131 languages. We curate and update our index weekly, filtering out non-scholarly records, duplicates, and retracted works.

Built on OpenAlex, the index includes open-access links from Unpaywall and peer-review ratings from the Norwegian Scientific Index (NSI). How we curate the index

Live usage analytics

Monitor campus adoption, search activity, and link-resolver traffic from a live admin dashboard built for annual reporting and renewal reviews.

Live in a week

Setup takes days with zero local installation. Share your email domains, campus IP ranges, and link resolver URL, and users can sign in right away on campus or by email.

Your IT team can also add SAML single sign-on (SSO) or deploy the Word add-in campus-wide whenever you are ready.

  1. Monday

    Keenious

    Connects your email domains, IP ranges, and link resolver.

  2. Tuesday

    Your library

    Sets up your welcome message, library branding, and citation check in a live session.

  3. Wednesday and Thursday

    Keenious

    Runs onboarding webinars and shares ready-to-use LibGuides and training materials.

  4. From Wednesday

    Your admins

    Monitor campus adoption and library link clicks on the live dashboard.

Security, privacy, and accessibility

Ireland, Belgium, France and Germany

All data is processed in the EU across Ireland, Belgium, France, and Germany. Your institution owns its data, and user queries and uploads stay private to your campus with zero model training.

  • ISO 27001

    Certified security management with annual third-party penetration testing.

  • Data processing agreement

    GDPR-compliant DPA ready for EU and international institutions.

  • Subprocessors

    Published list of all subprocessors and their hosting locations.

  • WCAG 2.2 AA

    Accessible by design, with a full VPAT available on request.

Request compliance documents in the Trust Center or read our privacy policy.

One license for the whole campus

One annual license covers everyone on campus, priced simply by full-time equivalent (FTE) headcount.

Frequently asked questions

Bring Keenious to your campus

Book a quick walkthrough with our team and get a quote for your institution.

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