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Keenious: AI For the Article Search

What Is Keenious?

Keenious Plus logo with purple "k," the word "keenious" black on white, the word "plus" in white font on pink, and the words "University of Missouri" below.Keenious is an AI-enhanced search for scholarly sources.

It can be used as a search engine or a word processor plugin. Keenious takes any text you give it and looks for articles that are relevant to that text. The list of articles appears in a sidebar on the right side of your screen. Keenious does not attempt to summarize or synthesize these sources; its only output is the list, which you may filter in several ways.

Note: for best results, off-campus users should run the university's AnyConnect VPN while creating an account and using Keenious. You can download AnyConnect at  anyconnect.missouri.edu.. 

 

Account Setup and Access

Mizzou is piloting an institutional subscription to Keenious, but Keenious also has a (more limited) free version.

Screenshots

Keenious Search Screen. Note that you can either enter text or upload a document. Keenious will search for published articles related to the text you enter or upload, based on a combination of keyword, citation, and natural language searching.

 

 

Keenious Search Box (Mizzou-branded)

Keenious search results based on entered text appear in a sidebar:

Shows Keenious search results based on text "Wolf reintroduction enhances the Yellowstone ecosystem in multiple unforeseen ways." The results list shown in the screenshot contains six relevant looking search results.

Keenious updates its search results based on highlighted text (there are more results than those showing in this screenshot):

Keenious updated search results based on highlighted text "Grizzly bear populations rise with wolf populations"

Clicking on an article title shows an abstract and a purple button linking out to Mizzou's full text:

Shows article information (abstract, link to MU full text, and more) for article "Trophic cascades from wolves to grizzly bears in Yellowstone"