E-Library

HEC Digital Library at a Glance

50,000Full-text e-books
23,000+E-journals
11Resource collections

What It Is

A digital library is a collection of electronic resources that provides direct or indirect access to a systematically organised collection of digital objects.

The HEC National Digital Library is a programme to provide access to international scholarly e-literature — high quality, peer-reviewed journals, databases, articles and e-books across a wide variety of disciplines, for researchers within public and private universities in Pakistan and non-profit research and development organisations.

Types of E-Resources

Full Text

The whole journal or book can be downloaded.

Partial Full Text

Selected articles can be downloaded.

Contents & Abstracts

Only the contents of books/journals and abstracts can be read online.

Getting Started

  1. Open your browser (e.g. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge).
  2. Type www.digitallibrary.edu.pk in the address bar.
  3. Click Institutes.
  4. Click Public Sector Universities.
  5. Click Punjab.
  6. Click Fatima Jinnah Medical College / SGRH.

Or go directly to digitallibrary.edu.pk/gangaram.html

These e-resources can be accessed within the premises of Fatima Jinnah Medical University — in the library, all departments, and faculty offices.

Accessible E-Resources

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Full text from 28 ACM journals and transactions, 10 ACM magazines, over 40 ACM special interest newsletters, 15 non-ACM journals and publications, and over 100 annual conference proceedings. Content strengths include all areas of information technology, with full archival content for all ACM publications.
dl.acm.org

eBrary

A wide variety of content across many subject areas, especially business and social science. Users are able to copy and paste each page and print up to 40 pages at a time; 41,800 e-books are accessible.
site.ebrary.com

Project MUSE

Online access to 430 full-text journals from 108 publishers in the humanities and social sciences.
muse.jhu.edu

SpringerLink

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.
link.springer.com

Taylor & Francis

A leading international academic publisher, with more than 1,000 journal titles available across a full range of disciplines.
tandfonline.com

University of Chicago Press

Journals of the University of Chicago Press that are available in JSTOR.
jstor.org

Wiley Online Library

Following the Blackwell Synergy merger with Wiley Interscience, all journals available to the HEC consortium are now available through the Wiley Online Library — an online database containing over 1,234 journals in science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

IET Digital Library

Over 20 research journals and letters in electrical and electronic engineering, including telecommunications, power, control, radar, circuits, materials, life-sciences-related research and IT. Ten of the IET digital library journals carry an impact factor.
digital-library.theiet.org

INFORMS

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences is the largest professional society in the world for professionals in operations research. INFORMS publishes 12 scholarly journals describing the latest O.R. methods and applications, plus a membership magazine.
pubsonline.informs.org

Emerald

A dynamic database comprising over 150 titles in management, information science and engineering. The Emerald full-text collection features over 58,000 articles, with flagship titles such as Management Decision, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Documentation, Leadership & Organization Development Journal, The TQM Magazine and Industrial Robot.
emerald.com

Pakistan Research Repository

An HEC project to promote the international visibility of research originating from institutes of higher education in Pakistan, maintaining a digital archive of PhD theses produced indigenously. It provides free, single-entry access to more than 7,000 full-text theses produced in Pakistan.
eprints.hec.gov.pk