1. Presentation topic:
Higher Education Commision Library of PAKISTAN
Submitted to:
Sir Aamir rasool
Submitted by:
Shafiq-ur-rehman
Roll.no. 4
BSlisc 6th semester
The ISLAMIA UNIVERSITY OF
BAHAWALPUR

2. • HEC National Digital Library (DL) is a programme to
provide researchers within public and private
universities in Pakistan and non-profit research and
development organizations with access to international
scholarly literature based on electronic (online)
delivery, providing access to high quality, peer-
reviewed journals, databases, articles and e-Books
across a wide range of disciplines. The e-books support
programme will allow researchers to access most of
the important text and reference books electronically
in a variety of subject areas. Around 75,000 number of
electronic content has been made available through
the Digital Library Programme.

4. Open Access Resources
• Open-access literature is digital literature that is
available on the web, free of charge, and free of
most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Committing to open access requires dispensing
with the financial, technical and legal barriers
that are designed to limit access to scientific
research articles to paying customers.The only
constraint on reproduction and distribution, and
the only role for copyright in this domain, should
be to give authors control over the integrity of
their work and the right to be properly
acknowledged and cited.

5. Eligibility Criteria
• Eligibility for access to the information resources is exclusively for
the following institutes recognized by the Higher Education
Commission that operate with a not-for-profit remit:
• Public and private sector degree-awarding universities and
institutes (departments and libraries) on the HEC list of recognized
institutions
• Constituent institutes of the HEC recognized universities.
• Non-profit research institutes. (Primary Activity should be
Education and Research)
• Higher education colleges.
• Teaching hospitals.
• Indigenous non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) and Civil
Society Organizations (CSO’s); any other eligible organization
authorized by the HEC.

6. • The following institutions will NOT be considered
eligible for access to the Digital Library:
• Universities or institutes not recognized by the
HEC;
• Military or military affiliated institutions (except
those recognized as degree awarding by the HEC);
• Atomic and/or nuclear research and development
institutes.
• All institutions must agree to the Terms and
Conditions for access to the resources available
through the library.

7. Available Free Full Text E-Book
• Ebrary
• ebrary helps customers acquire e-books strategically through a
three step approach involving transitioning, diversifying and
streamlining™. The company believes that by challenging the e-
book status quo, organizations can effectively serve the diverse and
growing needs of end-users within budget.
• ebrary currently has more than 4,500 library customers around the
world serving more than 19.2 million end-users. More than 500 of
the world’s most authoritativepublishers distribute e-books on the
ebrary platform.
• Founded in 1999, long before e-books were popular, ebrary is a
ProQuest business located in Palo Alto, CA, USA.

8. McGraw Hill Collections
• Following collections of McGraw Hill are subscribed to
your institution:
• McGraw-Hill's Access Engineering
• McGraw- Hill's Access Medicine
• McGraw-Hill's Access Science
• Springerlink
• SpringerLink provides access to 503 full-text Springer-
Verlag Journals and 738 full-text journals formerly
published by Kluwer Academic Publishing.
• One of the world's leading information services for
Science, Technical and Medical journals.

9. Available Databases
• ELSEVIER (Science Direct)
• About ScienceDirect
• ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database
offering journal articles and book chapters from more than
2,500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books.
There are currently more than 11 million articles/chapters,
a content base that is growing at a rate of almost 0.5
million additions per year.
Elsevier has digitized as much of the pre 1995 journal
owned-content as possible, bringing articles from as far
back as 1823 (The Lancet) to the desktop. Never has in-
depth literature searching been so comprehensive and easy
to find.

10. • The platform offers sophisticated search and retrieval
functionality that enables the user to maximize the
effectiveness of their knowledge discovery process. New
tools facilitate research work flow aids such as access to
content at an early publication stage and efficient multiple
document downloading of content that can be stored,
printed and passed to colleagues.
• The web environment offers new ways to present
information as well as enhancing it with other content
sources based on semantic technologies, e.g., NextBio. In
addition, since 2003, many authors have been submitting
extra value-added content associated with the research,
such as audio and video files, datasets and other
supplementary content, effectively accelerating research
beyond the print format.
• For more background information on the ScienceDirect
platform, read theScienceDirect brochure

11. About science direct site
• ScienceDirect’s Info site gives an introduction to
everything ScienceDirect has to
offer librarians and researchers. Here you will find
an overview of the ScienceDirect family of
products and services, a summary of the
ScienceDirect content coverage, buying options,
and the policies that govern its use.
• If you do not find the answer to your question
about ScienceDirect on this site, please contact
us.

12. • About Elsevier
• ScienceDirect is a part of Elsevier. Headquartered in Amsterdam,
The Netherlands, the company is the world's largest scientific,
technical and medical information provider and publishes over
2,000 journals as well as books and secondary databases.
• Elsevier is a member of the Reed Elsevier plc group, a world-leading
publisher and information provider. Operating in the scientific, legal
and business-to-business sectors, Reed Elsevier provides high-
quality and flexible information solutions to professional users, with
increasing emphasis on the Internet as means of delivery.
•
• Science Direct is the world's leading electronic collection of
scientific journals.
• Renowned for the high-quality of its content in all branches of
science, technology and medicine.
Subscribed Subject Areas: Chemistry, Computer Sciences, Physics &
Astronomy and Mathematics

13. Emerald
• Emerald is a global publisher linking research
and practice to the benefit of society. The
company manages a portfolio of more than
290 journals and over 2,000 books and book
series volumes, as well as providing an
extensive range of online products and
additional customer resources and services.

14. • Our values
• Quality is at the heart of our business. The highest quality of double-blind
peer reviewed research is at the heart of what we do, working alongside
some of the most prestigious contributors in their respective fields. Our
commitment to quality and relevance is reflected by a growing network of
more than 100,000 advisers, authors and editors and nearly 5,000
customers in over 130 countries worldwide.
• Agility in a fast-changing environment. As a fast-growing, independent
publisher we offer the best of both worlds, with a global presence to
provide significant research and support services, while remaining agile
enough to respond quickly to market needs.
• Passionate about service excellence. Our absolute commitment to quality
extends throughout the service and supporting resources we provide. This
is one of the main reasons our authors, editors and customers choose to
work with us year after year.
• Creating impact. Emerald's philosophy has always been to help our
communities create a meaningful impact; one that furthers the body of
knowledge and supports teaching, contributes to advances in society and
the environment, and influences government policy and business practice.

15. • Quick facts
• At the end of 2012 Emerald had 55 journals and 3 Book
Series ranked by Thomson Reuters (ISI)
• In 2012, more than 22 million Emerald articles were
downloaded and read in research and study
• In 2012, nearly 500,000 Emerald Book Series chapters
were downloaded and read in research and study
• Over 135,000 researchers, academics and authors have
contributed to Emerald content since 1994
• Emerald has customers in over 130 countries and
contributors in over 205 countries, demonstrating our
commitment to providing international research
•

16. • Emerald is a long established publisher with over 200 titles
in the fields of management, information science and
engineering. All of Emerald research journals are peer-
reviewed to ensure the highest quality.
• HEC has provided access to 150 of the total journal title.
•
• Emerald is a dynamic database comprising over 150 titles in
the fields of " Management, Information Science and
Engineering.
• The Emerald fulltext collection features over 58,000 articles
from titles published by Emerald.
• Flagship titles such as Management Decision, European
Journal of Marketing, Journal of Documentation,
Leadership & Organization Development Journal, The TQM
Magazine and Industrial Robot.

17. Jstor
• JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a
dual mission to create and maintain a trusted
archive of important scholarly journals, and to
provide access to these journals as widely as
possible. JSTOR offers researchers the ability
to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of
journal issues and pages as they were
originally designed, printed, and illustrated.
Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines.

18. • JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and
maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide
access to these journals as widely as possible. JSTOR offers researchers the
ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and
pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Content in
JSTOR spans many disciplines.
• Originally conceived as a project at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
JSTOR began as an effort to ease the increasing problems faced by libraries
seeking to provide adequate shelf space for the long runs of backfiles of
scholarly journals. JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of
JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years,
between the most recently published journal issue and the content
available in JSTOR (see JSTOR: The Moving Wall for more information).
•
• Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, with over 500 high-quality
publications available in the archive.
• JSTOR provides the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of
journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and
illustrated

19. Project Muse
• Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital
humanities and social sciences content; since
1995, its electronic journal collections have
supported a wide array of research needs at
academic, public, special, and school libraries
worldwide. MUSE books and journals, from
leading university presses and scholarly
societies, are fully integrated for search and
discovery.

20. • MUSE currently includes:
278,779 articles and 484,131 chapters by 203
publishers
•
• Project MUSE provides access to 430 full-text
journals from 108 publishers in humanities
and social science. MUSE pricing meets library
needs around the world.

21. Science Online
• Provides access to the full text of the
prestigious Science publication.
• It allows users to search within Science and
across a multitude of scientific journals.
• Provided to selected public-sector universities
in Pakistan on the basis of identified research
requirements.

22. Springerlink
• SpringerLink provides access to 503 full-text
Springer-Verlag Journals and 738 full-text
journals formerly published by Kluwer
Academic Publishing.
• One of the world's leading information
services for Science, Technical and Medical
journals.

23. Refernce
www.HEC.org