Keenious for librarians
Research discovery built to work with your library.
Keenious connects students to your library's collection, runs on an open scholarly index, and reinforces the source evaluation skills you teach.
Finding and judging sources
- 1Describe your topic in your own words
- 2See how the results group into areas
- 3Check where each source was published
- 4Open the full text
Search that supports what you teach
Information literacy means knowing where a source comes from and why it was selected. Keenious makes both visible, so students practise the habits you teach while they search.
Selection students can see
Students see the query, the filters, and the research areas behind every result list. In a session you can change a filter and show what it removes.
Peer review on the source
Journals show their peer-review status and level from the Norwegian Scientific Index, Norway’s national register of scholarly publication channels.
Shaped with librarians
We asked 52 academic librarians where generative tools help students and where they get in the way. Their answers set what Keenious explains and what it will not write.
Transparent by design
You teach students to check where information comes from, how it is selected, and how their data is handled. Here is how Keenious works.
Grounded in real publications
Studies of general-purpose chatbots have found that nearly half the references they generate are fabricated or inaccurate. Keenious searches a curated index of published works, and every result links directly to the source record.
Oladokun et al., Journal of Web Librarianship, 2025Curated scholarly index
Keenious maintains a curated index of about 177M publications built on OpenAlex, with retracted works and non-research records filtered out and transparent metadata on every source.
Keenious index coveragePatron privacy in the EU
All prompts, messages, and files are processed in the EU and are never used to train our models or third-party AI models. Institutional licences include a full data processing agreement.
Keenious privacy policyDesigned for library workflows
How Keenious supports collection access, information literacy instruction, and academic integrity.
Collection access
Connect students to your subscriptions
Add your link resolver and every paper displays a button with your institution name, taking students straight to the full text your library provides alongside clear open-access indicators.
Functional neuroimaging insights into how sleep and sleep deprivation affect memory and cognition
Michael W.L. Chee, Lisa Y.M. Chuah
Current Opinion in Neurology · Peer-reviewed journal
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The review summarizes current knowledge about what fMRI has revealed regarding the neurobehavioral correlates of sleep deprivation
Information literacy
Show how a research topic is structured
Each search maps papers into labelled topic clusters sized by publication volume. In instruction sessions, students can see at a glance how a broad subject breaks down into distinct scholarly conversations and vocabularies.
Source evaluation
Put journal details in plain sight
Students can open any journal to check its publisher, peer-review status, output, citation metrics, and Norwegian Scientific Index tier, or filter searches directly to DOAJ and PubMed.
Learning & Memory
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Explore this venue
Memory and Neural Mechanisms · Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research · Stress Responses and Cortisol
Academic integrity
Show your referencing guidance when students cite
Customize the confirmation prompt students see before copying a citation, link directly to your library referencing guide, and optionally add a 30-second pause before the Cite button activates.
Manage when users can access, copy and export formatted references.
Set a custom citation dialog message that users must confirm before citing articles.
Add a 30-second delay before users can copy the formatted reference for an article.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about index coverage, setup, authentication, and privacy.
Bring Keenious to your library
Try it yourself first, or talk to us about campus-wide access for your institution.