If you haven’t already guessed from the headline, Zendy has expanded its resources with the addition of magazines! The best part is that you get access to all of them and more with a single Zendy Plus subscription.
Covering a broad spectrum of subjects such as technology, science, finance and humanities, Zendy Plus users in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and the UAE will now have unlimited access to an exciting collection of best-selling digital magazines including BBC, Forbes, National Geographic and many more!
Your one-stop destination for all the best magazines
Looking to go behind the scenes of entrepreneurship? Curious about nature or advances in technology? Keeping up to date with the latest news and developments in your field can be an overwhelming endeavour! With Zendy, everything is tidy in one space. Whether you’re a busy researcher, student or just curious about the world around you, get instant access to all your favourite magazines quickly and conveniently.
What about past issues of magazines you ask? Don’t worry, Zendy has got you covered! You’ll be able to revisit, re-read and access past issues of your preferred magazines at the touch of a button. No matter what kind of magazine you prefer reading, you’ll find plenty to choose from here. Don’t restrict yourself to your reading comfort zone though, because half the fun’s in finding something new!
From researcher to trailblazer, Zendy is your one-stop destination for all e-resources.
Take a look at the full range of magazines available on Zendy and sign up for a free trial today!
Are you looking to open your mind and expand your knowledge? This month, dive into the world of health policy; uncover the impact of sewage sludge; explore the relationship between flow and your emotions; discover the benefits of fungus and go behind the scenes of SMS spam! Here are Zendy’s top 5 downloaded articles and e-books in July:
1) Introduction to Health Policy
Are you interested in health policymaking, critical health policy issues, or international perspectives on health policy? In his recent e-book, Leiyu Shi takes a unique perspective by integrating all these topics into this one of a kind e-book. Drawing on real-world cases and examples to reinforce theories and concepts, this is your go-to resource for a comprehensive and refreshing introduction to health policy.
2) Sewage Sludge: Assessment, Treatment and Environmental Impact
What is sewage sludge, you ask? We asked ourselves this exact question! Sewage sludge is the product resulting from wastewater treatment plants and aquaculture systems. With insights from experts, this comprehensive e-book presents an assessment of the impact of sewage sludge on the environment and the various treatment options for converting the sludge into useful resources.
3) Flow in the Health Sciences for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
In his e-book, Kazuki Hirao explores the connection between flow (or the mental state of becoming fully immersed in an activity) with a diverse range of physical and mental conditions. Through a critical discussion of recent clinical research, Hirao outlines the relationships between flow and emotional issues such as guilt, shyness, stress, and optimism. What are the health benefits associated with flow?
Did you know that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus can create a symbiotic relationship between a plant and a fungus so that both organisms benefit from the interaction? Liquorice plants are widely used as medicinal herbs or supplements. However, drought stress and nutrient deficiency often limit the growth and production of liquorice seedling cultivation. Can mycorrhizae fungus potentially alleviate the abiotic stress on liquorice?
5) A Prototype Scalable System for Secured Bulk SMS Delivery on Mobile Networks
Recently, there has been a rise in cyber criminals who are deceiving mobile users to part with access codes and other personal information. In a study, a prototype scam detector was developed that could automatically scan through SMS messages and determine whether they are spam or not and then take necessary actions. How successful was the scam detector?
Access these e-books, articles and more on Zendy – your gateway to knowledge and discovery! Zendy is now available in Algeria, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and the UAE.
Summer 2020 will look different for most of us: no shoulder to shoulder at a crowded concert or flying on a tightly packed aeroplane! But not everything has to be different. One beloved summer pastime remains as available and accessible, and that’s summer reading! Why not use this time to expand your mind with the top downloaded e-books and articles by our Zendy users?
1) Jane Austen: Emma
Possibly one of the most beloved of Austen’s six novels next to ‘Pride and Prejudice’, ‘Emma’ is a book entirely dominated by the personality of its eponymous heroine. Although we may all be in love with Mr. Darcy first and foremost, we all want to be Emma! This e-book offers a close reading of the text, setting it in the context of Jane Austen’s life, times and literary heritage.
2) Translating research findings in genetics of learning disabilities to special education instruction
Over the past few years, a remarkable shift has taken place in the role of genetics in special education. This study outlines advances in our understanding of genetic influences on learning disabilities. Although learning disabilities are highly genetic, do environmental factors play an important role? What misunderstandings about the gene-environment correlation exist in special education?
3) Team leadership: Theories, tools and techniques
Wondering how your team can be more productive and efficient? Then ‘Team Leadership’ is the e-book for you! It brings together theories and research on team development, team functioning, managing teams, team growth and more. What tools and techniques can be used to raise the performance levels of teams and help them to function optimally?
4) A nurse’s step by-step guide to writing a dissertation or scholarly project
Feeling overwhelmed by the mere thought of writing your dissertation or scholarly project? Wondering how to begin and where to find the time? You are not alone! Earning your advanced degree is an extraordinary accomplishment, but completing those final stages can be a daunting task. Packed with practical steps and tools, this e-book will help you plan, document, organise, and write your dissertation or scholarly project.
5) Energy efficient design optimisation of a bioclimatic house
This study aimed to find the most efficient and low cost of solutions to reduce the energy consumption of a busy house in Algeria, while guaranteeing thermal comfort. How can we optimise energy efficiency and carbon emissions during building design? Is there a possible solution for retrofitting a building to minimise its energy consumption?
Access these e-books, articles and more on Zendy – your gateway to knowledge and discovery! Zendy is now available in Algeria, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and the UAE.
Want to spice up your to be read (TBR) with some exciting articles and e-books? Whether you’re looking for your next great idea or read, you’re in luck, because here are the top downloaded articles in May by our Zendy Plus users:
1) Skin: A natural history
Given the importance of our skin and the functions it performs; it is striking that relatively few scientists study its evolution. This e-book begins with a look at the skin’s structure and functions and then tours its evolution, delving into such topics as the importance of touch and how the skin reflects and affects emotions.
2) Hollywood is everywhere: Global directors in the blockbuster era
Today, as the film industry is ever more global, the people who make blockbuster movies seemingly reflect this tradition, hailing from many countries across the world. This e-book offers a scrupulously detailed discussion of the transnationalisation of Hollywood and the histories and geographies of its global directors.
Adsorption is of considerable industrial importance and is a major part of many different processes throughout the chemical and process industries. The aim of this e-book is to provide all those involved in designing and running adsorption processes with a straightforward guide to the essentials of adsorption technology and design.
4) Literature – a mode to improve critical thinking skills
Critical thinking plays a major role in the new knowledge era and one of the most efficient ways of improving critical thinking skills is through reading literature. Using Toro Dutt’s “The Lotus” poem, this paper focuses on how reading a literary text can enhance thinking skills.
5) The Paradox of Plenty: Oil booms and petro-states
“The Paradox of Plenty” explains why, in the midst of two massive oil booms in the 1970s, oil-exporting governments as different as Venezuela, Iran, Nigeria, Algeria, and Indonesia chose common development paths and suffered similar outcomes.
Access these articles and more on Zendy Plus – your gateway to knowledge and discovery! Zendy Plus is now available in Algeria, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and the UAE.
Are you looking for page-turning, conversation-starting academic literature? No matter what kind of scholarly articles and books tickle your fancy, you’ll find plenty to choose from on Zendy! Here are April’s top downloaded articles and eBooks by our Zendy Plus users:
1) Botulinum neurotoxin for head and neck disorders
This eBook offers otolaryngologists, neurologists, pain specialists, and others a guide to the management of motor, sensory and autonomic disorders of the head and neck region with botulinum neurotoxin. It covers treatment methods for conditions ranging from hyper-functional motor disorders to afferent pain disorders.
2) Beyond Silicon Valley: How start-ups succeed in unlikely places
Technology start-ups typically become successful by using injections of capital to grow as rapidly as possible and tolerating high risk in a rush for market domination. Entrepreneurs far from superstar innovation cities demonstrate that start-ups can achieve outsize success by following a different path. Wondering what path that would be?
“New Media Language” is an essential read, bringing leading media figures and scholars together to debate the shifting relations between today’s media and contemporary language. This eBook investigates how developments in world media have affected, and been affected by language.
4) Advertising culture and translation: From colonial to global
This eBook is a comprehensive study combining and integrating advertising, culture and translation within the framework of colonial, postcolonial studies, and globalisation. It addresses several issues evident in two relatively young disciplines, as a result of decades of research and teaching in university courses.
5) The uncanny and the fairy tale in Kubrick’s The Shining
The “Literature Film Quarterly” is the longest-standing journal of international adaptation studies. This article takes a psychoanalytical approach to discuss the tensions between father, mother, and child in the motion picture “The Shining,” directed by Stanley Kubrick. It also explores the Freudian concepts which are present in the film.
Access these eBooks, articles and more on Zendy Plus – your gateway to knowledge and discovery! Zendy Plus is now available in Algeria, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and the UAE.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, 11th May, 2020: Knowledge E is pleased to announce it has extended its network of collaborations to Wiley.
Wiley, a global leader in research and education, joined Zendy with its extensive portfolio of journals, allowing Zendy users to access a wealth of academic research. The partnership covers the full collection of journals from the Wiley Online Library, anything from carbon energy to theoretical economics, in more than 30 countries.
Empowering researchers and learners for a world of accelerating change
The addition of Wiley resources will complement Zendy’s current offering, helping better connect research communities with scholarly literature. The partnership aspires to enrich the content available on Zendy and strengthen research and learning.
“We are delighted to extend our partnership to a publisher such as Wiley. With access to Wiley, we aim to provide a big boost to the accessibility of content in the community, furthering research and continuous learning.” – Founder and CEO, Knowledge E, Kamran R. Kardan
Duncan Campbell, Senior Director of Global Sales Partnerships at Wiley commented, “Wiley is very excited to be extending our working relationship with Knowledge E. Our partnership with Zendy will allow us to bring our journal content to new audiences and research communities with currently limited access. We look forward to further developing this partnership to achieve our shared goal of extending the global reach, dissemination, and visibility of research.”
About Zendy
Zendy is an online platform that aims to innovatively facilitate access to academic literature. It addresses the key challenges that we face with conventional ways of finding high-quality and relevant, academic content. Current online scholarly libraries exist behind expensive paywalls or require university facilitated access. For developing countries, it can be difficult to access academic publications if they cannot afford the subscriptions. Zendy serves to provide knowledge to everyone, everywhere.
Zendy is developed by Knowledge E in a growing collaboration with researchers, students, institutions and publishers. Join us on the journey of scholarly discovery, and reach out to us if you share the same vision and would like to contribute in any way.
Zendy is now available in Algeria, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and the UAE with more countries in Africa to follow in 2020.
Established in 2012, Knowledge E’s name was fast to become synonymous with collaboration, professionalism and innovation. Head-quartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and supported by a team of over 35 highly engaged professionals, Knowledge E works closely with over 100 clients world-wide from various types of organisations and government entities within the research and education sector to support their continued innovation and development. This is achieved by providing leading expertise, information resources and software solutions. Since its inception, Knowledge E has prudently expanded its expertise, services and technology in line with its vision of developing ‘a more knowledgeable world’.
Knowledge E’s three core offerings are the 3D’s; ‘Discover’, ‘Develop’ and ‘Disseminate’. ‘Discover’ through the KnE Digital Library Solutions for research literature discovery, as well as tailored content packages; ‘Develop’ through the KnE Learning Programmes, supporting capacity building and skills development within academia as well as the KnE Consulting Projects, serving universities on their mission to become ‘world-class universities’; and ‘Disseminate’ through the KnE Publishing Services and the platform for Open Access publishing of regional journals and conference proceedings.
Wiley drives the world forward with research and education. Through publishing, platforms and services, Wiley helps students, researchers, universities, and corporations to achieve their goals in an ever-changing world. For more than 200 years, Wiley has delivered consistent performance to all of their stakeholders.
Did you
know you could copy article links by clicking on
the paper clip icon next to the article title, as shown
below?
This feature, which was only available for a few articles previously, has now been made available across all articles on Zendy! You can also share this copied link via email or on social media to let others (if they are also a Zendy user and the content is accessible in their country) easily access the link or save the link in a document for your own future use. Do note that due to this sitewide update, all links for articles that you may have previously copied are now redirecting to a new URL.
How to retrieve the updated URL for the previously copied links?
One way is to copy the ISBN/ISSN in your old article URL and paste it in the search field in Zendy and then search using the ISBN/ISSN filter. To find the ISBN/ISSN, see the below sample URL in which it has been made bold: https://app.zendy.io/title/isbn/9780231169042?id=XQAAAAIWAAAAAAAAAABBKIgm5XGa8Ww3flDPjRRS5dcCQbxwBEPm_nX_9ZewAA
After searching for the ISBN/ISSN on Zendy, the article title you had originally copied the link of should appear on the top in the search results. If the title doesn’t appear or you’re not able to decode the old URL for your title – then, no worries, just send us the old URL via our Contact us form and we will get back to you with the new URL. 😊
Hope you find this new feature useful on your journey of discovery!
Zendy is a one-stop destination for access to academic literature covering an exciting range of topics such as engineering, medicine, technology, and more! For those with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, why not delve into the top downloaded articles by our Zendy Plus users?
1) Sleep medicine
Sleep is an activity that is exhibited by virtually all animal species, but our understanding of its true function remains unclear. What is better understood are the effects on a range of human and animal biological systems when sleep is degraded or reduced. These effects are observed in the form of sleep loss and sleep disorders. This eBook describes the basic physiology of sleep and the range of sleep disorders and their consequences.
2)Ethos and narrative interpretation: The negotiation of values in fiction
“Ethos and Narrative Interpretation” examines the fruitfulness of the concept of ethos for the theory and analysis of literary narrative. The notion of ethos refers to the broadly persuasive effects of the image one may have of a speaker’s psychology, world view, and emotional or ethical stance. How and why do readers attribute an ethos to literary characters, narrators, and even to authors?
3)Emergent success factors for entrepreneurial e-media companies
The study investigates the factors that positively influence the efficacy of e-media business models. Taking into consideration the existing literature that mentions the ineffectiveness of the subscription model, it attempts to investigate new factors that contribute to the success of e-media business models. These factors are specific content, innovation, multiple revenue sources, interactivity and media brand communities.
4)The discourse studies reader: Main currents in theory and analysis
Discourse studies is an interdisciplinary field studying the social production of meaning across the entire spectrum of the social sciences and humanities. The “Discourse Studies Reader” brings together 40 key readings from discourse researchers in Europe and North America, some of which are now translated into English for the first time.
5)The internationalization of commercial real estate markets in France and Germany
This paper investigates the internationalization of the commercial real estate markets of France and Germany, which are typically ignored in comparative political economy. Although both markets are embedded in Continental European capitalism, their trajectories of internationalization vary. Exploring processes of internationalization, it also shows how these processes have played out in the commercial real estate markets of France and Germany.
Access these articles and more on
Zendy Plus – your gateway to knowledge and discovery! Zendy Plus is now
available in Algeria, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and the UAE.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, 2nd April, 2020: Zendy is now available in Tunisia! Tunisia has the highest number of researchers per million of the population among the North African countries with a growing number of women researchers. With Zendy, researchers will be able to explore an unbelievable array of scholarly publications from all over the world covering biotechnology, education, health, humanities, ICT, social sciences, and more. With over 1 million texts in French, 100,000 in Arabic, and many more in English, global academic literature has never been easier to access.
Research with ease, research with Zendy
Zendy is a digital library that is equipped with necessary filters and tools researchers need today. Users can easily save searches, export citations in various referencing styles, and navigate according to the date, subject, source, and more. From agricultural science to medical physics, there is something for everyone on Zendy. Students, researchers, professionals, and learning enthusiasts will be able to access scientific articles through an affordable monthly or yearly subscription model.
“Zendy aims to transform the way we access content across the globe. Not only is it designed to help researchers on their journey to find valuable academic literature, but it is also a powerful tool providing the resources to inspire their next innovative ideas. Amidst the health, economic and humanitarian issues today, the dissemination of high-quality research has never been more needed.” – Founder and CEO of Knowledge E, Kamran R. Kardan.
About Zendy
Zendy is an online platform that aims to innovatively facilitate
access to academic literature. It addresses the key challenges that we face with
conventional ways of finding high-quality and relevant, academic content.
Current online scholarly libraries exist behind expensive paywalls or require
university facilitated access. For developing countries, it can be difficult to
access academic publications if they cannot afford the subscriptions. Zendy
serves to provide knowledge to everyone, everywhere.
Zendy is developed by Knowledge E in a growing collaboration with
researchers, students, institutions and publishers. Join us on the journey of
scholarly discovery, and reach out to us if you share the same vision and would
like to contribute in any way.
Zendy is now available in Algeria, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and the UAE with the rest of Africa to follow in 2020.
Established in 2012, Knowledge E’s name was fast to become
synonymous with collaboration, professionalism and innovation. Head-quartered
in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and supported by a team of 30 highly engaged
professionals, Knowledge E works closely with over 100 clients world-wide from
various types of organisations and government entities within the research and
education sector to support their continued innovation and development. This is
achieved by providing leading expertise, information resources and software
solutions.
Since its inception, Knowledge E has prudently expanded its expertise, services and technology in line with its vision of developing ‘a more knowledgeable world’. Knowledge E’s three core offerings are the 3D’s; ‘Discover’, ‘Develop’ and ‘Disseminate’. ‘Discover’ through the KnE Digital Library Solutions for research literature discovery, as well as tailored content packages; ‘Develop’ through the KnE Learning Programmes, supporting capacity building and skills development within academia as well as the KnE Consulting Projects, serving universities on their mission to become ‘world-class universities’; and ‘Disseminate’ through the KnE Publishing Services and the platform for Open Access publishing of regional journals and conference proceedings.
Zendy has a
beautiful new look that went live in March – the month of reading! The vibrant
new design reflects Zendy’s personality aptly and promises a smoother journey
for the user.
As you may have noticed, Zendy’s new look revolves around a bee. What inspired us to go with the bee?
Bees have
fascinated researchers for decades. They have excellent communication and
social learning skills and are capable of incredibly complex behaviors. Pollinating
bees are one of the vital reasons behind flourishing plant communities,
agricultural production, carbon cycling, and many other essential services to
our environment that we often fail to notice.
Similarly,
Zendy’s purpose is to foster communication and encourage collaborative efforts among
researchers and leaders worldwide. With more than 120,000 publications, Zendy
is on track with its goal to pollinate the world with knowledge and become the
ultimate digital library!
Sign up today and stay tuned for a dose of Zendy’s nectar of knowledge!
