[Dubai, August 2024] – Zendy has signed an agreement with Lexxion, a leading academic publisher that specialises in research in the field of law. This agreement enables Lexxion’s diverse collection to be discoverable to Zendy’s growing user base of over 600,000 readers from 200 countries and territories.
Berlin-based publisher Lexxion was established in 2000 and has since built a valuable reputation in disseminating academic research on the EU’s legal and regulatory system. Working with academic institutions and leading law firms across the globe, Lexxion hosts scholarly literature that addresses challenges and pivotal research in European legal systems.
“We are happy to partner with Lexxion to bring an influx of legal academic research on Zendy. Integrating Lexxion’s scholarly content on Zendy will not only diversify the research already available on Zendy but accelerate our mission in making academic research accessible everywhere across all disciplines.” said Zendy Co-founder, Kamran Kardan.
This partnership with Lexxion facilitates Zendy’s mission to expand the content on its digital library and take further steps towards creating a more equitable research discovery ecosystem.
About Zendy: Zendy is a product of Knowledge E. Since its inception in 2019, Zendy has connected over 600,000 users to academic journals, proceedings, articles, e-books, and more. Zendy is an AI-powered library that is on a mission to make academic literature more affordable and accessible for students, researchers, and professionals worldwide. Zendy recently launched ZAIA – Zendy’s AI assistant for research. ZAIA is a domain specific Large Language Model designed to help researchers deepen their knowledge base credible answers backed by references. To learn more, visit www.zendy.io.
About Lexxion: Lexxion is an academic publisher that specialises in legal research. Since its establishment in 2000, Lexxion has worked with academic institutions and leading law firms to disseminate quality academic content that addresses legal frameworks in the EU. To learn more, visit www.lexxion.eu/en/
[Dubai, July 2024] – The AI-powered digital library, Zendy, has signed a partnership agreement with prominent science, medical and technology publisher Bentham Science. This agreement is set to further diversify Zendy’s open access offering with research across the fields of pharmacy, medical subspecialities, engineering, technology, and social sciences.
Founded in 1993, Bentham Science Publishers has developed a formidable reputation by disseminating peer-reviewed research papers in science, technology, and medicine. Currently, Bentham publishes more than 160 journals in print and digital formats, out of which more than 70 have now received impact factor rankings.
Zendy’s Co-founder, Kamran Kardan said, “As an evolving digital library, we’re always happy to welcome open access content to Zendy to accelerate our mission in making academic content accessible and discoverable. This partnership with Bentham Science Publishers will add a diverse collection to Zendy in the disciplines of science, medicine, and technology”
This partnership plays a significant role in Zendy’s mission to advance SDG-4 (Quality Education) and SDG-10 (Reduced Inequalities) by publishing and disseminating open access research across the globe.
About Zendy: Zendy is a product of Knowledge E. Since its inception in 2019, Zendy has connected over 500,000 users to academic journals, proceedings, articles, e-books, and more. Zendy is an AI-powered library that is on a mission to make academic literature more affordable and accessible for students, researchers, and professionals worldwide. Zendy was awarded Best Startup – Education at the Middle East Technology Excellence Awards 2022. To learn more, visit www.zendy.io.
Bentham Science Publishers is a leading academic publisher that specialises in medical and general STM (Science, Technology, and Medicine) disciplines. With a diverse portfolio of over 130 hybrid and Open Access journals, Bentham Science aims to disseminate high-quality research to the scientific community worldwide. Founded in 1992, Bentham Science was established “by scientists for scientists” and has always been committed to quality. The publisher maintains the most robust peer review process in the scholarly publishing industry with all papers undergoing a blind review, from a verified pool of experts. For media inquiries, please contact: marketing@benthamscience.net
[Dubai, August 1, 2024] – The AI-powered digital library, Zendy, has signed a partnership agreement with leading open access publisher, Tech Science Press. This partnership is set to increase the scholarly content within the disciplines of engineering and science on Zendy’s free Open Access plan.
Founded in 1997, Tech Science Press has maintained high publishing standards for scholars, researchers, academic groups, and institutions to access relevant and reliable scholarly content. Currently, the publisher disseminates 28 peer-reviewed academic journals that specialise in the fields of science and engineering.
Zendy Co-founder, Kamran Kardan said, “This partnership is well-aligned with Zendy’s mission to make academic research accessible globally. With Tech Science Press’ commitment to publishing open-access peer-reviewed journals, this partnership works towards accelerating the accessibility of academic research at a global scale. We’re delighted to host and disseminate Tech Science Press’ open access journals and advance our open subscription offerings as well.”
This announcement comes as Zendy continues to forge partnerships with prominent academic publishers to expand its content library and cater to diverse user interests. Zendy recently announced a series of new partnerships with IntechOpen, IEEE, IT Governance Publishing, and IGI Global.
The partnership with Tech Science Press reinforces Zendy’s dedication to nurturing a global academic community and making scholarly resources accessible to all.
About Zendy: Zendy is a product of Knowledge E. Since its inception in 2019, Zendy has connected over 500,000 users to academic journals, proceedings, articles, e-books, and more. Zendy is an AI-powered library that aims to make academic literature more affordable and accessible for students, researchers, and professionals worldwide. Zendy recently launched ZAIA – Zendy’s AI assistant for research. ZAIA is a domain-specific Large Language Model designed to help researchers deepen their knowledge base credible answers backed by references. To learn more, visit www.zendy.io.
About Tech Science Press: As a publisher, Tech Science Press (TSP) disseminates fully peer-reviewed and Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) compliant open access Journals that are published online. The mission of TSP has always been to promote open science and uphold research integrity, and TSP is a publisher member of COPE, SSP, ALPSP, CSE and STM. Currently, TSP publishes 28 high-quality open access journals, many of which are indexed in prestigious databases such as WoS, Scopus, Ei Compendex, PubMed Central, and Europe PMC. In addition to journal publications, TSP also publishes a series of academic books, monographs, and conference proceedings. To learn more, visit www.techscience.com
[Dubai, July 15, 2024] – Zendy, a global AI-powered digital research library, has signed an agreement with academic publisher, British Online Archives (BOA). This partnership will bring an influx of primary sources covering the humanities and social sciences to Zendy.
British Online Archives is a leading academic publisher that hosts over five million records, carefully sourced from private and public archives, such as The National Archives (UK) and British Library. BOA’s specially curated primary source collections cover over 500 years of world history. They boast extensive documentation from across the globe, providing invaluable source material for students and researchers working within a wide range of scholarly disciplines.
Zendy Co-founder, Kamran Kardan said, “We’re happy to partner with British Online Archives to diversify the academic content available on Zendy. The humanities and social sciences are pivotal in understanding the landscape of the current world. We’re delighted to welcome archival content onto our platform. Offering our users a diverse range of enriching scholarly literature is part of our core mission. Through partnerships, we can make a significant impact to ensure that accessibility remains at the forefront of innovation in the academic publishing industry.”
Head of Publishing at British Online Archives, Katherine Waite, said, “We are delighted to be forming this partnership with Zendy, whose ethos of providing access to all researchers regardless of their location greatly aligns with our own goal of being an ethically conscious publisher. We look forward to working with them as we open new doors for researchers to access some of our great content.”
This partnership with British Online Archives facilitates Zendy’s mission to enhance the discoverability of quality academic content all over the globe. With a significant increase in scholarly literature from the humanities and social sciences, Zendy aims to provide a seamless solution for accessibility with the convenience of having a wide range of research available on one easy-to-use platform.
About Zendy: Zendy is a product of Knowledge E. Since its inception in 2019, Zendy has connected over 500,000 users to academic journals, proceedings, articles, e-books, and more. Zendy is an AI-powered library that aims to make academic literature more affordable and accessible for students, researchers, and professionals worldwide. Zendy recently launched ZAIA – Zendy’s AI assistant for research. ZAIA is a domain-specific Large Language Model designed to help researchers deepen their knowledge base with credible answers backed by references. To learn more, visit www.zendy.io.
About British Online Archives: British Online Archives is one of the United Kingdom’s leading academic publishers whose goal is to provide students and researchers in the humanities and social sciences with access to unique collections of primary source documents. To learn more, visit www.microform.digital/boa/.
As a mission driven digital research library, Zendy is committed to helping reduce inequality in access to academic literature for audiences worldwide. We are committed to taking an ethically driven approach in the design, development, deployment, and use of our AI-based solutions. We prioritise the responsible and ethical use of AI, ensuring we address and minimise any potential negative impacts, whether societal or environmental. Our commitment centres around placing human values at the core of our responsible AI practices.
By working closely in partnership with publishers and data providers to create an affordable and accessible route to peer reviewed content, we aim to even the playing field of global research, enabling students and researchers from underserved markets to participate in the global academic and policy dialogue and to contribute to identifying solutions to our planet’s major challenges.
We believe that AI has an important role to play in fostering a fairer research and publishing ecosystem. By leveraging AI, we can offer a range of innovative solutions to facilitate access to content and to make the search journey quicker and more efficient, thereby supporting researchers’ needs irrespective of funding or location.
Whilst AI has the potential to transform research and education, Zendy acknowledges that it also raises ethical concerns around issues such as bias, privacy, and accountability. In response to these concerns and to the growing discussion around AI, we have formulated a list of AI imperatives to guide Zendy’s strategy for the development and integration of AI technologies into our products.
Zendy’s AI Imperatives:
AI in service of a better world
In line with our mission to reduce inequality in research and publishing, we believe AI can help to positively impact society by facilitating access to and use of scientific content. Our portfolio of AI solutions and our ongoing development work reflects this ethos, with a focus on solutions designed to support our users in their search for quality, reliable data.
As a signatory to the UN’s Global Publishing Compact, and working hand in hand with our partners, we aim to offer a more enriched, personalised learning and discovery environment for all users globally, with AI very much in service of a better world.
Openness, trust and transparency
Zendy embraces transparency in AI, committing to clear communication about how our AI systems work, the data they use, and the decision-making processes they employ.
We explain our use of AI tools, defining them in terms of their abilities and limitations. We clarify how they fit into our platform’s ecosystem and how users can make the most of them. If the tool makes use of partner copyrighted data, as per licensed agreements, we put in place limitations and clear safeguards on that use.
We recognise the need for openness, trust and transparency across all our activities to foster trust with our partners and clients, and we are always open to feedback.
Personal privacy, regulation and data governance
Zendy is a committed advocate of personal privacy. As we continue to develop new solutions and acquire larger data sets, we safeguard the personal information which is shared with us by implementing robust security policies and procedures to secure our systems. We also ensure that data is collected, reproduced, and protected in a compliant and appropriate manner in accordance with applicable privacy laws and regulations.
Zendy’s AI systems prioritise data privacy and security by adhering to data protection regulations GDPR) and implementing practices like differential privacy when necessary.
We proactively follow our own internal governance policies as well as external regulations to ensure our AI development is aligned with sustainable practices, including national and international guidelines on AI privacy and ethics.
Equity, unfair bias and data integrity
Fairness and equity are at the heart of Zendy’s mission to help create a better world. As we develop and implement new AI tools and solutions, we put in place procedures to ensure reliability and carry out extensive review. We recognise that biases and hallucinations present challenges in machine learning models, similarly to their presence in human cognition.
To minimise these challenges, Zendy AI uses high-quality, accurate data, avoiding harmful or biases data sets. We also implement state-of-the-art techniques, including prevention and mitigation mechanisms like “chain-of-verification” and “counterfactual reasoning”, which are integrated into our models.
Human oversight and accountability
We believe human oversight is key to the successful development and deployment of reliable and ethical AI-powered solutions. We maintain human oversight of the development of our AI tools and their output from design to deployment to ensure reliability and quality.
We routinely conduct evaluation benchmarks on our models to assess their tendency to reproduce falsehoods and biases, as well as to measure their accuracy. This ongoing evaluation process enables us to continually enhance and refine our models.
We are fully accountable for our tools. We apply a systematic risk management approach to each phase of the AI system lifecycle and adopt responsible business practices to address risks related to AI.
Sustainable AI
At Zendy, promoting responsible innovation is at the heart of our mission. We work to ensure that our development and use of AI solutions contributes positively to society and the environment and considers the long-term impact of technology on the world.
In line with the tenets of ethical AI, we deploy our technologies in a manner that adheres to responsible and ethical principles. We strive to maximise their long-term sustainability for our stakeholders and the field of research more broadly.
Zendy is proud to be mission led with social impact at the heart of our values. Together with our stakeholders, we aim to leverage AI to contribute to solving global challenges such as the right to quality education and reducing inequalities.
We believe in a fair and sustainable approach to using data which is licensed to Zendy for use by our AI systems. We do not train our AI systems on publisher data, instead using a technique called Retrieval Augmented Generation. We offer full referencing and compensation to publishers for use of their content.
We commit to supporting Green AI and to minimising theenvironmental impact of AI research and operations by prioritising the development of energy-efficient models.
We believe in fair, inclusive and equitable access to AI. Our AI tools are geared towards supporting all human learning as humans adapt to continuing AI advancements.
United Arab Emirates, 13th March 2024 – AI-powered research library Zendy has announced the launch of a significant version release for its domain-specific Large Language Model (LMM), ZAIA (Zendy AI Assistant).
Developed by Zendy’s data science team and initially launched in December 2023, ZAIA is designed to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of research discovery and literature review. In this new version, a host of new features have been introduced to support researchers:
Ask ZAIA: You can now ask specific questions to ZAIA on a paper level, giving you a new way to conduct in-depth analysis during literature review.
PDF Analysis: ZAIA can now analyse any PDF. Upload or link a research paper with sections, and ZAIA will extract, analyse, and summarise each section, including the abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, and references.
Reference validation and verification: using techniques such as chain of verification, all references go through a validation and verification process to increase accuracy.
Conversation and analysis history: once you log in, you can now see a complete history of all conversations with ZAIA and a history of PDFs analysed.
An enhanced fine-tuned model for increased accuracy.
ZAIA is also now accessible without registration.
ZAIA is not a general-purpose language model. It is fine-tuned with Zendy’s own data sources, allowing it to support higher-level abstractions for research-specific use cases.
“ZAIA 0.1 takes us closer to our vision of creating an ecosystem of research-centric AI tools using the latest development methods that increase efficiency and reliability. The future of research is intertwined with the vast capabilities of AI, and we are committed to leveraging the best of AI to provide solutions to the pressing issues researchers face in research discovery,” said Zendy’s Chief Technology Officer, Rodrigo Pinto.
“We have a core focus on increasing collaboration with publishers and data providers to navigate the increasing potential of AI. We look forward to extending the vast capabilities of our LLM and all our learnings to institutions, publishers, and organisations looking to streamline information discovery and retrieval using AI,” said Zendy Co-founder Kamran Kardan.
Committed to helping foster an ecosystem of collaborative partnerships rooted in responsible AI practices, Zendy believes AI is important in fostering an equitable research and publishing ecosystem, but only with ethical guidelines. In response to the growing discussion around AI, Zendy recently released a list of AI imperatives to guide strategic development and the integration of AI technologies.
To find out more about Zendy’s AI solutions, email hello@zendy.io.
To read the Zendy AI Imperatives statement, click here.
About Zendy
Zendy is a product of Knowledge E. Since its inception in 2019, Zendy has introduced over 500,000 users to a better way to research. Zendy’s intuitive AI-powered research library features millions of journals, articles, e-books, and more, allowing users to access unlimited content for an affordable monthly subscription. Zendy also offers a free open-access plan.
We hosted a joint webinar with IntechOpen in November that addressed emerging technologies across different industries that contribute to sustainability and research accessibility and discovery.
The webinar was titled, “Emerging Technologies – Partnering for Accessibility, Discoverability and a Sustainable Future.” The session featured 3 key speakers, Dr. Jo Havemann representing AfricArXiv, Professor Tatiana Morosuk from Technical University of Berlin and Zendy’s Head of Marketing, Monica Chinsami.
Each speaker articulated how their organisation works to increase sustainable practices through research dissemination. Zendy’s Head of Marketing, Monica Chinsami highlighted our library’s initiatives to advance the accessibility and discoverability of scholarly literature. In an effort to break geographical barriers in research, Zendy partners with leading publishers to ensure their content reaches regions with limited access via our global subscription.
Additionally, Professor Tatiana Morosuk from the Technical University of Berlin placed emphasis on the transionary period the energy sector is experiencing as it moves away from fossil fuel and towards technology focused on sustainability. The professor stated the importance of innovation to advance sustainable practices and energy use.
Finally, Dr. Jo Havemann stated how AfricArXiv is on a mission to make African research more discoverable as this is in line with SDG 4 (Quality Education), the organisation announced their collaboration with Ubuntunet which is a network provider that assists with connectivity and infrastructure for research and education institutions.
Advancing research dissemination catalyses SDG 4 (Quality Education) and SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities). As equitable research platforms emerge and partner to expand their reach, the more academic research is democratised to create knowledgable societies.
We look forward to hosting more webinars in 2024, to tackle and highlight the initiatives in the world of academia.
Discover millions of e-books, journal articles, proceedings and more on Zendy now.
United Arab Emirates, 15 December 2023 – AI-powered research library, Zendy, announced the launch of its AI Assistant, ZAIA, a domain-specific Large Language Model (LMM) developed by Zendy’s data science team.
ZAIA (short for Zendy AI Assistant) exists to help researchers quickly understand key research concepts and discover research papers that specifically link to inputs. These two functions enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the literature review process.
You can ask any research-related question, and ZAIA will analyse millions of academic research papers to give you credible answers backed by references.
Unlike general-purpose language models, ZAIA is trained with Zendy’s own data. In the future, it can also query, in real-time, additional sources from publisher data that are not available on the public domain.
There is growing recognition of the necessity for domain-specific solutions to strengthen the credibility of data. Fine tuning models on domain-specific data narrows down the LLM’s focus to improve performance in a defined context, thus reducing the likelihood of hallucinations.
“We developed ZAIA to advance the usage of AI on research platforms and improve the research discovery process for researchers. ZAIA aims to assist readers on Zendy by quickly solving research-related questions. ZAIA stands out from other AI products as it is fed real-time data and information available on Zendy, which is then fine-tuned to efficiently cater to our users,” said Zendy’s Head of Technology, Rodrigo Pinto.
“The first iteration of our LLM, ZAIA, is our unique AI offering for Zendy users who can now leverage the best of AI to improve their research discovery process. This is a very exciting milestone for Zendy and we look forward to the feedback from our valued users,” said Zendy Co-founder Kamran Kardan.
Committed to helping foster an ecosystem of collaborative partnerships rooted in responsible AI practices, Zendy’s Large Language Model is built to be entirely customisable. It has the capacity to learn from diverse datasets with integration made simple through Restful API’s or Websocket APIs.
“Bigger picture, our technology presents limitless potential for organisations and institutions yet to integrate the power of LLMs into their workflows. The potential is immeasurable, with use cases including on-demand tutoring, psychology support services, employee onboarding, the list goes on,” continued Kamran Kardan.
To find out more about Zendy’s AI solutions email hello@zendy.io.
You can use ZAIA now on Zendy. To access, log in or sign up to Zendy: www.zendy.io.
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – 28 November 2023 – Our head of technology, Rodrigo Pinto Mendez, presented his paper titled: “Leveraging Big Data and Machine Learning to Enhance Open Data Quality: Insights for Developing Regions” at the Forum for Open Research panel that tackled “Open Data and Open Source: Benefits and Case Studies.”
The presentation addresses the need for accurate and reliable open data, focusing on developing regions that can accelerate their social and economic progress through data-driven insights. It explores the relationship between big data and machine learning in enhancing the quality of open data while also observing how open data can be extracted, transformed, and unified. The talk also assesses how machine learning can be used to detect anomalies within datasets.
About F.O.R.M. 2023
The 2023 Annual Forum featured panels addressing key themes related to the advancement of Open Science policies and practices in research institutions and communities throughout the Arab world. This 2023 conference theme was: Democratizing Knowledge: The evolution of open science ecosystems and communities in the Arab World.
