Students and staff of Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences have access to the fee-based Keenious plus tool until December 31st, 2025. Access to the Keenious plus is activated with a Microsoft login. Use your SEAMK email address to create an account. You will receive a confirmation email and a code to log in. No password is required for the service.
Once logged in, you can use all the features of Keenious plus. After creating an account, the tool is available at https://keenious.com. Login with your SEAMK Microsoft account.
You can search either by typing text in the text box or by uploading a PDF file to Keenious. You can paste text to the text field in Keenious, for example in the form of a research question.
The uploaded file must be a pdf file. Note that you can also choose/highlight a part of the text to be analyzed (see more from Keenious guide).
The artificial intelligence of Keenious starts to analyze the text and soon gives you results to the right margin of the screen.
The search results appear in the right margin of the text in relevance order. If the article or other research text is open access, an open access logo (open lock) can be found next to the search result. Three vertical bars are also displayed in the same row. Look for this "Result Insights" button. It's located at the top right, next to the cite and bookmark buttons. Click the "Result Insights" button to view insights on why the article was recommended, focusing on text relevance (more info on the Keenious guide). The search result includes a link to the open article.
You can continue editing the search result in the Search articles search field. You can use Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), phrase search (quotation marks) and grouping of search terms with parentheses.
If the article in the search result is not open access, the Check SEAMK Access link will allow you to immediately check whether the article behind the paywall is accessible through the e-journal packages purchased by the SEAMK Library.
When logged in to Keenious plus, you can also search in languages other than English by using the Cross language search feature. You can do 10 Cross language searches per day. The Cross language search feature can be found in the top right-hand corner of the search results list.
When the Cross language search feature is enabled (the option is blue), Keenious will translate your Finnish search query into English, for example, and then conduct an English search. The search result is a list of articles in English.
When the Cross Language feature is not enabled (greyed out), the search results will be articles in the language of the search query. For example, if you want to search for articles in Finnish with Finnish text, click cross-language off.
When you find a useful article on Keenious, you can use it in different ways. This requires an account in Keenious plus. When you find a search result you like, you can add the information about it directly to a word processor, export it to a reference manager or bookmark it.
Click on the "-sign in the top right-hand corner of the article. You can choose a citation style from a wide range of options. You can either copy the citation to your desktop, from where you can move it to the bibliography of the article, for example. Alternatively, you can download it as a RIS file to your computer, from where you can transfer it to into the reference management software you use (e.g. Zotero, Endnote).
You can also bookmark your favourite search results in your own account and return to them later. Click on the star in the top right-hand corner of the article. It will turn yellow, indicating that the article has been added to your bookmarks.
You can view your bookmarks in the basic search (on the right-hand side). At the top is the "My bookmarks" section, which you can click on to view your bookmarks.
Keenious allows you to filter the results in many different ways. First paste a text or upload a pdf to Keenious and let it analyse it. Click then
button and get the following filters.
As explained before, Keenious does not only return results based on search terms, but also through text analysis by artificial intelligence. The search results will include suggestions for topics that are relevant to the text in question, which may or may not be mentioned in the text itself. This is useful if, for example, you are just getting to know a new discipline. You can find the topics in the search results above the list of articles (see figure).
Click on the topic and Keenious will give a short presentation on it.
Search results can also be refined by adding or removing a topic. Click on the bottom right triangle next to the topic (image above). You can choose to add it to the search criteria ("Add to include list") or exclude it from the search ("Add to exclude list"). You can do the same for multiple topics.
Once these have been added or removed from the search, the search results will be more accurate. You can also do the same for part of the text – paint the desired part and let Keenious do the search. If you want to remove a topic from the search, click on the checkbox in front of it.
Result Insights feature shows you why the Keenious engine ‘thinks’ a certain result is relevant, focusing on factors such as text relevance, publication date and citation count.
Click the "Result Insights" button. It's located at the top right, next to the cite and bookmark buttons.
Read more about Result Insights.