With a basic registered Keenious account, you will be able to get the most from you exploring with feature such as citations and bookmarks. If you are part of our university customers, make sure you use your institutional email. This ensures you will be connected to your library and have access to all Keenious Plus features.

For more detailed instructions, check out our in-depth tutorial on how to create a Keenious account.

You can start a search with a simple (or complex 👀) question, or by choosing a PDF. In the example below, a question is typed into the text box on the Keenious homepage. Keenious will then look for relevant articles and prompt you to think more deeply about your research question, suggesting ideas and related topic areas. If you’re curious about how Keenious makes recommendations, check out this article.

After digging into your question, exploring the topic, and finding research papers, how can you access one? When you find a paper that interests you, simply click on the article's title. There, you can see information such as the abstract, authors, publisher, and more.

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If you want to view the full text of an article, click on the 'Check Access' or 'Access Full-Text' button. This will take you to the article in your institution's library holdings, or to LibKey where you can search for your institution. You can also use the 'DOI' or 'PDF' button if available.

If your institution does not have access to an article behind a paywall, reach out to your interlibrary loans or acquisitions librarian!

When writing an academic work, it is important to cite any works that you use for ideas, information, and language. Failing to do so can be considered plagiarism. Keenious citation feature will help you keep track of your discoveries and show your work.

You will find the citation button below an article title. You may choose your citation style or even download the citation to your reference management system.

Another way to keep track of your discoveries to revisit later is by using the Keenious Smart Bookmark feature. When you find an article and want to keep it for later, simple press the "Save" button to add it to your bookmarks.

It’s important to note that the Smart Bookmark feature functions as a filter. When you access your bookmarked items, it presents relevant articles labelled 'bookmark' from our collection.

Any article that doesn't meet the required relevance level won’t be included in the list. Not to panic it is not lost forever! You can still find them by using a more relevant document.

Above the recommended articles, you will find a "Filters” button. Filters allow you to refine by year, cited by counts, open access, author, journal, conference, or topics.

When working with a large piece of text like a thesis or a longer assignment, there can be situations where you would like to explore research only to specific parts. Highlight a section of a PDF or chat text and hit 'Ask AI' to get article recommendations and information that is specific to the highlighted section that is still relevant to your initial search.. To learn more, check out this article.

Researchers and academics frequently work with documents in multiple languages. That's why we created the cross-language search feature. This allows you to find results the same language as your input text or many others! Check out this article to learn more.

Simply ask the AI to find you results in a specific language or apply a filter.