The World Bank is now allowing access to thousands of its datasets, which should help academics and practitioners work with the development data that was restricted to subscribers in the past.

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Addition of 2 Social Sciences resources:

• Duke University Press publishes more than thirty periodicals that span a range of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences.

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• Edinburgh University Press has been recently subscribed with the HEC - Digital Library. It publishes over 30 journals across a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. It's access has been provided to all the DL registered institutes.

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Institution of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has been offering its top of the line product, IEEE Xplore to the members of Higher Education Commission (HEC) since 2005. IEEE has keenly observed this trend among the Pakistani universities and in an effort to further enhance their excellent professional collaboration with HEC has offered to train the librarian/Institutional representative of all HEC consortium members.

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Following resources have been unsubscribed from the Digital Library:

• EBSCOHost
• Oxford University Press e-Books
• Scopus
• Bentham Science
• Mary Ann Liebert
• Palgrave Macmillan
• Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Royal Society of Chemistry
• Walter De Gruyter
• American Society of Microbiology (ASM)
• National Inquiry Service Centre - (NISC SA)
• NRC Research Press Journals Online
• Oxford University Press Journals

British Library is the national library of United Kingdom and one of the world's greatest libraries. It serves business and industry, researchers, academics and students, in the UK and world-wide. Over 100 million items have been supplied to readers all over the world.

HEC - DL has been subscribed to the Secure Electronic Delivery (SED) Service of British Library. For more details please visit @ http://digitallibrary.edu.pk/sed_bl.html

After the successful trial access of McGraw Hill Collections, HEC - Digital Library has acquired following Collections for Public/Private Sector Universities and Non-Profit/Research Oriented Organizations of Pakistan.

• McGraw-Hill's Access Engineering
• McGraw-Hill's Access Medicine
• McGraw-Hill's Access Science

ESDU collection is based on industry standard tools and software as part of teaching and research projects. They are also key design elements in many of the largest engineering industries. ESDU provide validated engineering design data, methods and software for the engineer.

Following institutions have been added for the access of ESDU:

• Air University - Islamabad
• Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad
• National University of Sciences & Technology - Rawalpindi

The HEC National Digital Library Program is continuously expanding the resources on the basis of demand of our researchers and end users and this expansion is very much dependent on the research output from the institution and total number of downloads in a specific year. Based on these key points recently six new institutions has been added for the access of JSTOR.

• Aga Khan University, Karachi
• Bahria University, Islamabad
• Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore
• National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad
• Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad
• Quaid-e-Azam Library, Lahore

Access of Taylor & Francis Journals has been resumed. You are able to access Taylor & Francis Journals with a different URL.

Click here to access T&F Journals http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/subjecthome~db=jour

Chemical & Engineering News is a weekly magazine published by the American Chemical Society. C&EN editors and reporters based in Europe, the U.S., and Asia cover science and technology, business and industry, government and policy, education, and employment aspects of the chemistry field.

Only ACS (American Chemical Society) registered institutes can access C&EN.

For further information visit www.cen-online.org

The HEC Digital Library always keeps on trying to extend the research boundries for researchers. This new feature of E-Books will definitely benefit you in your research work. Well known publishers offers you the additional feature of online E-Books access.

• Ebrary
• Oxford University Press E-Books

To get benefit of this offer go to this link http://digitallibrary.edu.pk/books.html

Freedom Subject Collection is available to Elsevier Science Direct customers. It offers the opportunity to get access to all subject categories for the researchers. Following universites can access any subject category from ScienceDirect:

• Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
• University of the Punjab, Lahore
• University of Karachi, Karachi

Just click and get benefit http://www.sciencedirect.com

The Higher Education Commission is periodically reviewing the performance of Institutions that have been provided with access to the Digital Library Resources. The aim is to respond to the needs of researchers in Pakistan and tailor our resource expansion strategy according to demand and research capacity, and to support institutions where excellent usage has been demonstrated.

We are proud to acknowledge the enthusiasm shown by your researchers and would like to offer you a further subject collection from Science Direct in addition to the existing collections available to you. A complete listing of subject collections available through Elsevier is attached at Annex A for reference. The collections to which you already have access have been highlighted for your convenience. The complete journal listings for each subject collection may be accessed at: http://www.sciencedirect.com .

The HEC looks forward to providing you with this resource and extends its complete cooperation to facilitate the awareness and usage of this database. We are confident that your Institution will maintain a high level of performance and benefit from this key resource.