Pakistan Bureau of Statistics

PBS Library has grown into one of the best libraries of Pakistan. Its core collections are on the subjects of statistics, economics, demography, sociology, banking, finance, trade and commerce. However, literature on other auxiliary disciplines such as information technology, geography, law and management as well as on disciplines of general interest like philosophy, religion, politics, literature, and history, etc. is also adequately maintained. Below is a summary of present library holdings:

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DharaVerse World Atlas

The DharaVerse World Atlas is a multi-layered, fully interactive online geographical mapping platform designed for students, educators, researchers, and geography enthusiasts. Created by Sandhya Baletiya, it shifts away from static print maps into a living digital experience spanning 195 countries and all seven continents.

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Infoplease Atlas

Our world atlas includes all continents of the world, including the primary landmasses of Europe, Asia, and North America, but also Oceania and the Pacific Islands. Our world atlas includes all continents of the world, including the primary landmasses of Europe, Asia, and North America, as well as Oceania and the Pacific Islands.

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World Atlas

A world atlas is a comprehensive collection of maps, geographical data, and demographic metrics that visually and analytically represent the Earth. Whether accessed through iconic physical reference books, digital smartphone applications, or legacy online resources, a modern atlas compiles political boundaries, topographic landforms, and thematic data to help users navigate global relationships.

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Scholarpedia

Scholarpedia is a peer-reviewed, open-access online encyclopedia where articles are authored and curated directly by expert scientists and researchers.

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Free Online Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia.com is a free online aggregator that lets users search over 200 individual encyclopedias and reference books at once. Rather than generating its own original articles, it compiles fact-checked information, definitions, and biographies from highly trusted, established publishers and academic sources.

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Encyclopedia Britannica

The Encyclopedia Britannica is the oldest English-language general encyclopedia, originally founded in 1768 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Created by printer Colin Macfarquhar and engraver Andrew Bell, it was initially published in weekly installments over three years before being compiled into a three-volume set. In 1901, the publication was acquired by an American firm and eventually moved its headquarters to Chicago, Illinois, where its editorial operations remain

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Wikipedia Encyclopedia

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Zotero

Reference Management Tool

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OATD

Open Access Thesis

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British Library Ethos: e-theses Online Service

Search over 600,000 doctoral theses. Download instantly for your research, or order a scanned copy quickly and easily.

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PhD Country Directory & Pakistan Research Repository

An initiative of the Higher Education Commission, Islamabad, for Thesis and Dissertations.

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World Bank Global Development Finance (GDF Online): Economics

GDF (online) contains statistical data for the 138 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System. The database covers external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructuring, and scheduled debt service projections. Data selection screens are intuitive and easy to use. Results can be scaled, indexed against a particular year, viewed by percentage change, and charted. Data can also be exported in standard formats.

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United Nations Treaty Collection Database (UNTC)

UNTC contains full-text of the United Nations Treaty Series, the current status of the Multilateral Treaties deposited with the Secretary-General, and texts of recently deposited multilateral treaties 1945 to present.

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UNIDO Industrial Statistics Databa

The database contains time series data starting with 1981 to the latest available year for approximately 102 countries. The data is arranged according to the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC) at the 4-digit level, which provides for the inclusion of 81 industries in the manufacturing sector. Information is presented by country, year, and industry. Each of the following items is covered: number of establishments, employment, wages and salaries, output, value added, gross fixed capital formation, and number of female employees. The data is originally stored in national currency values at the current process. The system allows for data conversion from national currency into current U.S. dollars using the average period exchange rates as given in the International Financial Statistics (IFS).

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The New York Times (NYT)

The New York Times (NYT) is an American newspaper and internationally recognized daily newspaper founded in 1851 and distributed throughout the United States. For an insightful view of the world, there's no paper like The New York Times. Its coverage Science, Art, Business, Sports, Movies, Travel, and book reviews. It has been organized into sections like News, Editorials, Opinions, & Columns.

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PC-TAS - Trade Analysis System

PC-TAS contains five-year time series of foreign trade (import/export) statistics extracted from the COMTRADE database of the United Nations Statistical Division (UNSTAT), which covers over 90% of world trade. The data provides an overview of actual import and export values, quantities, and trends broken down by country of origin or destination, for each product. It contains foreign trade data covering 200 countries and territories broken down into 3,800 Standard International Trade Classification (SITC Revision 3) products viewable at the 1, 4 or 5-digit level or 5,300 Harmonized System (HS revision 0) products viewable at the 2- and 6-digit level.

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PAKISTAN LAW SITE

This resource ensemble the idea of LAW ONLINE. This is a one-stop resource site for statutes, rules, and cases relating to Pakistan. This site is one of its kind and houses all the federal and provincial statutes and cases related to these statutes. Taxation, service, copyright, estate planning, labour and all kinds of fiscal statutes are covered in this site. Moreover, there are more than 1200 essays and writing and other legal documents available here. It also houses all the journals of PLD publishers including PLD, SCMR, CLC, PCrLJ, PTD, PLC CLD and YLR.

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OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY

The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present, and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources. The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world. It also offers etymological analysis and listings of variant spellings.

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New Left Review

New left review published every two months from London. New Left Review analysis World Politics, the Global Economy, State powers and protest movements: Contemporary Social Theory, History and Philosophy, Cinema, Literature, Heterodox Art, and Aesthetics. A complete index of the New Left Review, going back to 1960, can be searched by Author, Title or Subject.

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ITC (International Trade Centre) Market Analysis Tools

The ITC Market Analysis and Research (MAR) section is part of the Market Development Programme of the International Trade Centre (ITC). Through MAR services, ITC provides online tools, provides tailored market research and trade analysis, and conducts training programs in market analysis for trade policymakers, trade support institutions and the business community in developing countries. MAR services comprise a number of web-based applications including Trade Map, Market Access Map, Investment Map, Trade Competitiveness Map and Product Map which are now accessible through Market Analysis Tools Portal.

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Institute of Physics (IOP)

IOP publishes 37 of the world's most prestigious journals in physics and related disciplines - all available online through the IOPP's award-winning electronic journals service.

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IMF International Financial Statistics

The IFS database contains approximately 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries and areas and includes all series appearing on the IFS Country Pages.

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IMF Direction of Trade Statistics

It contains data on the value of merchandise exports and imports between each country and all its trading partners. Total bilateral and multilateral exports and imports are aggregated at the national or regional group level.

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IMF Balance of Payment Statistics

It summarizes, for a specific period (typically a year or quarter), the economic transactions of an economy with the rest of the world and covers all the goods, services, factor income, and current transfers an economy receives from or provides to the rest of the world.

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Faculty Opinions

Faculty Opinions is an expert guide to the literature that comprehensively and systematically highlights the most interesting articles published in Biology and Medicine based on the opinions of over 8,000 leading international scientists, medics, and clinicians.

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Emeraldinsight

Provides full-text of all 150+ Emerald online journals available, with full-text backfiles, many going back to 1990 abstracts going back in some cases to the 1980s.

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Econlit

Econlit is a comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature, produced by the American Economic Association. It includes coverage of over 400 major journals and articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.), books, book reviews, dissertations, and working papers licensed from the Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics.

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Economic & Political Weekly

The Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) is a weekly Indian magazine published in Mumbai. It publishes original research and analysis on the economics, politics, sociology, and history and is known for its strong editorial stands to have a social conscience.

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American Chemical Society (ACS)

ACS is the leading publisher of peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences, serving scientific communities worldwide through an unparalleled commitment to quality, reliability, and innovation. Fulltext access is available for all titles back to the start date of the publication, some back as far as the 1800s.

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American Physical Society (APS)

The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit scientific membership organization dedicated to advancing and disseminating knowledge in physics and related disciplines. It comprises numerous divisions, sections, and units that support a global community of physicists. APS publishes a wide range of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals, including the renowned Physical Review series and Physical Review Letters. In addition, it organizes major scientific meetings and contributes to research, education, and outreach in the field of physics. APS is also a member society of the American Institute of Physics (AIP).

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American Institute of Physics (AIP)

AIP Publishing is a wholly owned not-for-profit subsidiary of the American Institute of Physics (AIP). AIP Publishing's mission is to support the charitable, scientific and educational purposes of AIP through scholarly publishing activities in the fields of the physical and related sciences on its own behalf, and on behalf of our publishing partners to help them proactively advance their missions.

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ACS in Focus Digital Books (Collection1)

The ACS In Focus digital books help readers of all levels accelerate their fundamental understanding of new topics and core techniques from across the sciences, especially in the field of Chemistry and chemical engineering.

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Clarivate: Web of Science Research Journals

Web of Science (WoS) is a premier multidisciplinary citation database that covers over 250 subject disciplines, including sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. It indexes high-quality, peer-reviewed journals globally.

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PERN

Pakistan Education and Research Network (PERN): A nationwide project managed by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) that connects higher education and research institutions with high-speed internet, cloud computing, and digital library resources.

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DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals

DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality research.

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archive.org / openlibrary.org

"This is a massive digital library that contains millions of public domain books, papers, and audio/video materials. Its Public Domain Texts section is completely copyright-free and can be downloaded for free."

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OpenStax

An amazing education meets you where you are and stays with you. It's the moment something clicks, and you see the world differently. OpenStax free textbooks are always available and enhanced with research-based learning tools wherever you need them.

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CORE (COnnecting REpositories)

The world's largest collection of open-access research papers harvested from repositories and journals worldwide.

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NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations)

An international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).

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Pak Medi Net

A major database for medical journal articles published in Pakistani biomedical journals.

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BioMed Central (BMC)

BioMed Central (BMC) is a pioneering commercial publisher of roughly 300 peer-reviewed, open-access journals spanning science, technology, engineering, and medicine (STEM)

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BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)

One of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic open-access web resources, operated by Bielefeld University Library.

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OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks)

A quality-controlled collection of open-access books, mainly covering humanities, social sciences, and management.

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DOAB Open Access E-Book Repositories (Copyright-Free / CC-Licensed)

The counterpart to DOAB. It provides access to over 15,000 open-access, peer-reviewed scientific and academic journals across all disciplines.

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PubMed

PubMed is a free database maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located within the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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SCOPUS

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature with more than 20,500 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers. Scopus offers researchers a quick, easy and comprehensive resource to support their research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and arts and humanities

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SpringerLink

One of the world's leading online information services for scientific, technical, and medical books and journals. Over 1100 fully peer-reviewed journals are available with backfiles starting from different dates.

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Science Direct

The world's leading electronic collection of scientific journals and provides access to the full-text of last 5 years. The subject areas covered in this database ar Business Management and Accounting, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Economics.

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ProQuest One Social Sciences

ProQuest One Social Sciences offers high-quality titles from around the world to researchers across regions, markets, and disciplines. It includes journal content and a wide variety of specialist full-text publications such as dissertations, trade publications, and grey literature. Subject coverage spans anthropology, criminology, economics, international relations, library science, linguistics, political science, public policy, social work, and sociology, making it a valuable resource for interdisciplinary studies. With more than 7,300 indexed titles and over 22.5 million records, the database supports comprehensive social science research.

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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Global

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Global includes more than 200 premier newspapers from the U.S., Canada, and around the world. Each newspaper is presented as PDF scans, allowing users to exlore the pages just as they were originally printed. The collection is fully searchable from cover to cover, making it easy to find specific articles, topics, or dates.

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ACM Digital Library (Association of Computing Machinery)

Provides access to thirty magazines and journals in computing and IT, with a complete archive reaching back to the 1950s. It also includes the ACM Special Interest Group newsletters and conference proceedings, many with full archives in 34 distinct areas of information technology that address your varied interests - Programming Languages, Graphics, and Mobile Communications etc.

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IEEE Xplore

IEEE Explore is a digital library that has been offering full-text access to the research literature on electrical engineering, information technology, electronics and related disciplines published by IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers), IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) and their fellow publishers since 1872. It provides access to over 3 million full-text documents, books, eBooks, journals, transactions, magazines, conference proceedings, standards and educational material, etc.

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