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Academic resources for Pakistani researchers.
Browse Basic and Premium resources available through the HEC National Digital Library.
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Basic Resources
Core resources available through the national subscription.
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Springer Link
Keep one research question in view.
2,182 Springer Nature journals across 32 main disciplines, led by medicine and public health, life sciences, engineering, mathematics, chemistry and physics.
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Taylor & Francis
Move from evidence to understanding.
2,147 Taylor & Francis journals across Social Sciences and Humanities, Science and Technology, and Medicine.
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Wiley
Find the evidence behind your next decision.
1,316 Wiley Online Library journals across 17 subject categories: medicine, life sciences, social and behavioural science, business, chemistry, engineering and the humanities.
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Premium Resources
Specialist resources available to eligible institutions.
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ACM
Find the research behind the next breakthrough.
177 ACM journals and magazines alongside close to 13,900 conference proceedings and book volumes, covering computing literature from 1954 onward.
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ACS
Find chemistry research you can build on.
92 ACS journals covering chemistry, materials, energy and nanoscience.
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AIP
Build stronger work on a deeper record.
23 AIP journals plus the five-title AVS package, with five years of article counts recorded for every title.
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Emerald
Bring research closer to the people it can help.
312 Emerald journals across 13 subject collections: management, accounting, marketing, education, health and social care, and engineering. The list records 282 indexed in Scopus.
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IEEE
More than journals. Find the technical library behind what comes next.
IEEE Xplore spans millions of technical documents worldwide. HEC's 2026 lists name 246 journals and magazines plus 53,581 records in the subscribed IEL content list.
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IOP
Go deeper into the science behind the signal.
68 IOPscience Extra journals across physics and its neighbouring sciences.
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JSTOR
Understand today by reading what came before.
4,520 journals across 90 disciplines, plus the complete Archival Journal and Primary Source Collection.
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ScienceDirect
Start with one question. Follow it wherever it leads.
1,642 Elsevier journals across all 21 ScienceDirect subject collections, from health sciences and engineering to economics, psychology and veterinary medicine.
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Scopus
Find the people, papers and places behind a field.
An abstract and citation database rather than a full-text library: Scopus profiles authors, sources and institutions so a field can be read as a whole.
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Web of Science
Start with one paper. Follow the evidence.
Web of Science is a citation index rather than a full-text library. Use it to discover research, then move to the HEC resource that provides reading access.
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