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How You Can Use Zendy to Benefit Your Research

What is Zendy? 

The Zendy academic library is designed to accompany users on their journey of discovery across a broad spectrum of disciplines. It is an intuitive and user-friendly platform that accommodates a vast collection of academic research covering all major fields. Developed in close collaboration with researchers, students, institutions, and publishers, Zendy aims to democratise knowledge and make it accessible to all. Zendy was established with the vision of making academic content more accessible and affordable for individuals worldwide, regardless of their field of study, area of interest or geographic location. 

Welcome to Zendy! When you log in, you’ll be met with recommended articles.

Using Zendy To Your Advantage

Zendy offers a wide selection of academic research. Discover peer-reviewed journal articles, e-books and proceedings across disciplines; from science and technology to arts and humanities, Zendy has it all. The academic library provides access to full-text articles and books from various leading publishers, making it a tool students, professors and avid readers can benefit from. 

What Makes Zendy Stand Out?

With an aim to democratise access, Zendy offers two unique solutions to users. The first is Zendy Plus, a subscription service giving users unlimited access to premium academic content for the monthly price of a single research paper. Secondly, Zendy Open – a free open access research library packed with research tools to make content easier to navigate and discover.

With a single Zendy Plus subscription; you can access academic content across numerous fields from leading publishers like Taylor & Francis, Wiley, Emerald, EBSCO, Sage and many more. Zendy Plus is available in UAE, KSA, Bahrain, Jordan, Nigeria,  Morocco, and Algeria. To facilitate Zendy’s vision of democratising access and promoting research-based solutions and decision-making, the subscription offers access to millions of academic articles in over 45 languages in an active effort to make academic material inclusive and accessible. Zendy Plus allows users to access a vast collection of premium academic research for the monthly price of a single research paper.

Easy Citations

Researchers and students know that generating citations and reference lists are time-consuming tasks. On Zendy, we’ve simplified how you can get your citations done. It only takes one click to access citations in multiple formats as shown below.

Simply click “Cite” to get an accurate citation for the academic material you’re referencing
Once clicking on “cite” you’ll have this window on your screen and you may pick the citation format you’d like to use from the top right drop-down menu

Advanced filters

Zendy’s comprehensive filters will effortlessly refine your research discoverability process. Your searches can be filtered by author, publication, title, H-index score, Scientific Journal Rank (SJR), International Standard Serial Number (ISSN), International Standard Book Number (ISBN), and keyword. 

To utilise Zendy’s advanced filters, click on the arrow within the search bar on the right.
From this drop-down menu, you may select the filter you’d like to apply and proceed from there

Favourites

This particular feature serves as a wish list for research you find intriguing. You can essentially add articles to read either later or come back to for quick references. Save time scrolling by simply just clicking on the ‘thumbs up’ icon at the bottom right of the research you’re interested in.

To add a research paper to your favourites, simply click the thumbs-up icon located on the bottom right.
Access your favourites by logging in and selecting ‘My Library’ from the drop-down menu on the top right or simply click ‘My Library’ located to the right of the Zendy icon at the top
By selecting ‘Favourites’ at the top of the page, you can access all the research you’ve liked and saved here.

Read History 

This feature collates every piece of research you have accessed on Zendy. In case you forget to add some academic research to your reading list, you now have the option to go into your read history and locate key research easily. 

Just like how you accessed your Favorites list, you’ll need to go to ‘My Library’ from either one of the options shown above.
Click on ‘Read History’ and easily access all the academic research you’ve previously read or visited.

Reading Lists

Customise your very own reading list now on Zendy. Arrange your academic research based on genre, publication or simply your area of interest. Pick up right where you left off across articles, e-books, proceedings and much more, you’ll never need to search again for a source you know you’ll come back to. 

From either the drop-down menu on the top right or the option on the top left, you need to select ‘My Lists’ 
From this page, you’ll need to select the ‘Create List’ Option to organise your reads.
Simply name your list and save it, you can now begin adding academic research papers to this list.
Once the list has been created, you can begin adding academic content to it by clicking on the ‘add to list’ on the bottom right.
You may then select the list you’d like to segregate the research paper into and click ‘done’.
Your academic research material has been successfully saved to your desired list for you to access at any time you need it.

Dive into research papers across many disciplines while taking advantage of Zendy’s amazing features and discover millions of e-books, journal articles, proceedings and more on Zendy now.