The HEC National Digital Library is a program in Pakistan that provides researchers access to international scholarly literature, including over 75,000 electronic resources such as e-books and e-journals. The library supports public and private universities, as well as non-profit organizations, by offering both basic and premium resources based on licensing agreements. It aims to facilitate academic research and education by providing a non-profit platform for high-quality electronic research materials.

1. HEC DIGITAL
LIBRARY
WAHID ULLAH
M.PHIL RESEARCH SCHOLAR
UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR
EMAIL: SARHADIWAHID222@GMAIL.COM

2. HEC DIGITAL LIBRARY INTRODUCTION
• DIGITAL LIBRARY IS A COLLECTION OF ELECTRONIC RESOURCES THAT PROVIDES
DIRECT/INDIRECT ACCESS TO A SYSTEMATICALLY ORGANIZED COLLECTION OF
DIGITAL OBJECTS.
• 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.
• IT PROVIDES 50,000 ONLINE FULL TEXT E-BOOKS IN ADDITION TO MORE THAN
23,000 E-JOURNALS

3. HEC NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY PROGRAM
(NDLP) – POLICY
• HEC NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY PROGRAM (NDLP) PROVIDES RESEARCHERS
WITHIN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES/INSTITUTIONS AND NON-PROFIT
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS IN PAKISTAN WITH ACCESS TO
INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARLY LITERATURE. IT PROVIDES ACCESS TO HIGH
QUALITY, PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS, DATABASES, ARTICLES AND E-BOOKS
ACROSS A WIDE RANGE OF DISCIPLINES.

4. TYPES OF E-RESOURCES
THE E-RESOURCES UNDER DIGITAL LIBRARY ARE CATEGORIZED AS FOLLOW:
• BASIC RESOURCES: BASED ON THE LICENSES ACQUIRED FROM THE PUBLISHER/
SERVICE PROVIDERS (E.G., OVID, WILEY), THESE RESOURCES ARE EXTENDED
COUNTRYWIDE TO THE UNIVERSITIES, COLLEGES, R&D ORGANIZATIONS AND
OTHER PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR INSTITUTIONS.
• PREMIUM RESOURCES: DUE TO THE LIMITED NUMBER OF LICENSES ACQUIRED,
THESE ARE EXPENSIVE RESOURCES ACCESS FOR WHICH IS GIVEN TO LIMITED
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR UNIVERSITIES BASED ON DEMAND AND
AVAILABILITY OF LICENSES E.G., IEEE, SCIENCE DIRECT.

5. HOW TO SUBSCRIBE HEC DIGIDTAL LIBRARY
1. ​​​​HEC ACQUIRES LICENSES OF DIGITAL RESOURCES FROM THE
PUBLISHERS/SERVICE PROVIDERS HAVING LICENSING AND COPYRIGHTS, AS PER
THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE
2. PUBLISHERS ENGAGE WITH HEC PROVIDING DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT
THE RESOURCE, PRICE QUOTATIONS, AND TERMS OF LICENSE AGREEMENTS
3. HEC MAY SEEK THE RESOURCE ON A TRIAL BASIS (FREE OF COST) WHICH MAY
BE OFFERED TO RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES/ INSTITUTIONS IN ORDER TO
CONDUCT NEED ASSESSMENT.
FOLLOWING FACTORS ARE CONSIDERED WHEN ACQUIRING E-RESOURCES FROM
PUBLISHERS:

6. • SUBSCRIPTION REQUESTS/ DEMAND OF THE UNIVERSITIES / INSTITUTIONS /
AVAILABILITY OF LICENSES
• ​​​USAGE AND CONTENTS OF THE E-RESOURCES
• TERMS OF LICENSES AND COST
• FINANCIAL RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO HEC
4. HEC WILL ENTER INTO A LICENSING AGREEMENT WITH THE PUBLISHER/SERVICE
PROVIDER IF THE RESOURCE IS APPROVED BASED ON THE RECOMMENDATIONS
OF THE DIGITAL LIBRARY TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE (DL-TAC).
5. THE INSTITUTIONS INTERESTED IN GETTING ACCESS TO E-RESOURCES WILL APPLY
ON A PRESCRIBED REGISTRATION FORM AND SUBMIT THE DULY FILLED
APPLICATION FORM TO THE DEALING OFFICER OF HEC DIGITAL LIBRARY. THE
INSTITUTIONS WILL ALSO PROVIDE A STATIC IP ADDRESS TO ACCESS THE E-
RESOURCE.
6. ALL INTRITUTIONS MUST AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR ACCESS TO
THE RESOURCES AVALIABLE THROUGH THE DIGITAL LIBRARY AND WILL SIGN A
FORMAL AGREEMENT FOR THE PURPOSE.

7. ELIGIBLE INSTITUTIONS TO SUBSCRIBE FOR E-
RESOURCES
THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES OF INSTITUTIONS ARE ELIGIBLE TO SUBSCRIBE FOR E
RESOURCES:
• PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR UNIVERSITIES/ DEGREE-AWARDING INSTITUTIONS
RECOGNIZED BY HEC
• PUBLIC SECTOR OR NON PROFIT INSTITUTIONS/ R&D ORGANIZATIONS WITH
ACADEMIC/RESEARCH AND/OR TRAINING MANDATE
• ANY OTHER GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS, INDIGENOUS NON-GOVERNMENTAL
ORGANIZATIONS (NGO'S) AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS (CSO'S); OR THAT
MAY BE ALLOWED TO SUBSCRIBE FOR E-RESOURCES UPON RECOMMENDATIONS OF
THE DL-TAC.
THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED ELIGIBLE FOR ACCESS TO
THE DIGITAL LIBRARY:
• UNIVERSITIES/ DAI,S NOT RECOGNIZED/ BLACKLISTED BY THE HEC.

8. HOW TO USE HEC DIGITAL LIBRARY
• OPEN YOUR BROWSER E.G. INTERNET EXPLORER, MOZILLA FIREFOX, GOOGLE CHROME ETC.
• TYPE: WWW.DIGITALLIBRARY.EDU.PK IN THE ADDRESS BAR.
• CLICK ON INSTITUTES
• CLICK ON PUBLIC SECTOR UNIVERSITIES
• CLICK ON KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA
• CLICK ON WOMEN UNIVERSITY MARDAN
• OR
• TYPE THE BELOW URL IN ADDRESS BAR
• HTTPS://WWW.WUMARDAN.EDU.PK/
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9. Click On
Browser
Click here and
find your
required article
and journals and
books

10. AVAILABLE RESOURCES
• PROQUEST DESSERTATION AND THESIS
• PROQUEST DISSERTATIONS & THESES GLOBAL IS THE WORLD'S MOST
COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF DISSERTATIONS AND THESES FROM AROUND
THE WORLD, SPANNING FROM 1743 TO THE PRESENT DAY AND OFFERING FULL
TEXT FOR GRADUATE WORKS ADDED SINCE 1997, ALONG WITH SELECTED FULL
TEXT FOR WORKS WRITTEN PRIOR TO 1997. IT CONTAINS A SIGNIFICANT
AMOUNT OF NEW INTERNATIONAL DISSERTATIONS AND THESES BOTH IN
CITATIONS AND IN FULL TEXT.
• ACCESS URL:
https://search.proquest.com/pqdtglobal?accountid=135034

11. ASTM
• THE ASTM STANDARDS & ENGINEERING DIGITAL LIBRARY IS A VAST COLLECTION
OF INDUSTRY-LEADING STANDARDS AND TECHNICAL ENGINEERING
INFORMATION. IT COVERS A BROAD RANGE OF ENGINEERING DISCIPLINES,
INCLUDING AEROSPACE, BIOMEDICAL, CHEMICAL, CIVIL, ENVIRONMENTAL,
GEOLOGICAL, HEALTH AND SAFETY, INDUSTRIAL, MATERIALS SCIENCE,
MECHANICAL, NUCLEAR, PETROLEUM, SOIL SCIENCE AND SOLAR ENGINEERING.

12. INSTITUTE FOR OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE
MANAGEMENT SCIENCES (INFORMS)
• INFORMS PUBLISHES 12 SCHOLARLY JOURNALS, INCLUDING A JOURNAL FOR THE
PRACTICE OF OR/MS (INTERFACES), AS WELL AS AN ON-LINE OPEN ACCESS
JOURNAL (INFORMS TRANSACTIONS ON EDUCATION).
• ACCESS URL: HTTP://JOURNALS.INFORMS.ORG/
Subject Strengths
•Operations Research
•Management Science
•Analytics
•Operations Management
•Information Systems
•Decision Analysis
•Research Theory
•Marketing Research and Science
•Computing and Information Technologies
•Research Theory
•Strategic Management
•Mathematical Theory
•Supply Chain Management

13. SPRINGERLINK
• SPRINGER IS THE WORLD'S SECOND LARGEST STM PUBLISHER, DELIVERING HIGH
QUALITY PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS THROUGH ITS ACCLAIMED ONLINE SERVICE -
SPRINGER LINK. THROUGH SPRINGER LINK, SPRINGER PUBLISHES MORE THAN 1,250
JOURNALS ONLINE OF WHICH 1,030 ARE NOW AVAILABLE TO INSTITUTES WITHIN A
RANGE OF PERI COUNTRIES. SPRINGER ALSO OFFERS OPTIONAL PRICING FOR THE
REMAINING (NEW AND TAKEOVER JOURNALS IN ITS PROGRAMME).
• THE WWW.SPRINGERLINK.COM WEBSITE LISTS A VAST COLLECTION OF SPRINGER
ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS INCLUDING: E-JOURNALS, 'HISTORICAL ARCHIVES' OF E-
JOURNALS, E-BOOK SERIES, 'HISTORICAL ARCHIVES' OF E-BOOK SERIES, E-BOOKS
AND E-REFERENCE WORKS. MOST INASP-PERI SUBSCRIBERS HAVE 'PAID' ACCESS TO
SELECTIVE E-JOURNALS ONLY AND NONE OF THESE OTHER ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS.
ALL E-JOURNALS THAT YOUR INSTITUTION DOES HAVE ACCESS TO ARE CLEARLY
HIGHLIGHTED WITH A 'GREEN BOX' NEXT TO THE ARTICLE. IN ADDITION TO THIS ALL
'PAID' INASP-PERI SUBSCRIBERS WILL HAVE FREE ACCESS TO THE ABSTRACTS OF ALL
SPRINGER E-JOURNALS AND ALSO - WHERE AVAILABLE- TO THE ABSTRACTS (ONLY –
NOT THE FULL TEXT) IN SPRINGER'S HISTORICAL ARCHIVES.

14. TAYLOR & FRANCIS JOURNALS
More than 1,300 titles in humanities, social sciences and applied
sciences.
Access URL: http://www.tandfonline.com
Access T&F User
Guide: http://www.tandfonline.com/page/librarians
License Agreed: Available to all public and selected private universities
and some other eligible institutes

15. WILEY-BLACKWELL JOURNALS
Wiley-Inter science is an STM (Science, technology, and Medicine) and SSH (Social Sciences and
Humanities) publisher. Introduced in 1997, Wiley Inter Science is a leading international resource for
scientific, technical, medical and scholarly content.
In June 2008, Wiley Inter Science incorporated the online content formerly hosted on Blackwell
Synergy to provide access across 1,234 journals in science, technology, medicine, humanities and
social sciences. Since the Blackwell-Synergy merger with Wiley-Inter science, all the journals
available to HEC consortium are now available through Wiley-Inter science.
Access URL: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/

16. .
• PRE MEDICAL JOURNALS
47 LEADING INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL JOURNALS AVAILABLE THROUGH "HIGH WIRE
PRESS", WITHOUT ANY REGISTRATION
• WOLTERS KLUWER OVID SP
• LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS (LWW) STARTED IN 1792 AND HAS A LONG
HISTORY AS A LEADING INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHER WITH A SINGULAR FOCUS AND
STRENGTH IN MEDICINE, NURSING AND HEALTH. IT PROVIDES PROFESSIONAL
INFORMATION RESOURCES FOR PHYSICIANS, NURSES, SPECIALIZED CLINICIANS AND
STUDENTS. IT PUBLISHES OVER 275 JOURNALS, NEWSLETTERS AND LOOSE-LEAF
PRODUCTS, INCLUDING MANY OF THE INDUSTRY’S MOST RESPECTED TITLES. IT IS
THE PUBLISHING PARTNER TO MORE THAN 60 PRE-EMINENT MEDICAL SOCIETIES
AND OFFERS HIGH QUALITY CONTENT AND EXPERT CAPABILITIES IN EDITORIAL
INNOVATION.
• ACCESS URL: HTTPS://OVIDSP.OVID.COM/AUTOLOGIN

17. HOW TO ACCESS DIGITAL LIBRARY FROM
HOME
• FOLLOW THESE SIMPLE STEPS TO HAVE ACCESS TO HEC DIGITAL LIBRARY FROM
HOME
STEP 1
GO TO THE WEBSITE OF HEC NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY
STEP 2
ON HOME PAGE, CLICK ON THE INSTITUTES
STEP 3
A PAGE WILL APPEAR SHOWING THE UNIVERSITIES FROM PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR
AND OTHER INSTITUTES WHICH HAVE ACCESS TO HEC NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY
HNDL

18. .
• STEP 4
• SELECT YOUR DESIRED INSTITUTE
• STEP 5
• A PAGE WILL APPEAR SHOWING THE RESOURCES OF THE INSTITUTION
• STEP 6
• JOURNALS AND RESEARCHES WILL APPEAR
• STEP 7
• YOU CAN FIND A JOURNAL BY CLICKING ON JOURNALS AND DATABASE AND
INTER A KEY WORD TO SEARCH FOR YOUR DESIRED JOURNAL.
Journals and Researches will appear

19. PURPOSES AND USAGE OF HEC DIGITAL
LIBRARY
• BASED ON A WIDE COLLECTION OF E-BOOKS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS, THE HEC
NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY PROGRAM FACILITATES UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE
STUDENTS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. HEC ONLINE LIBRARY CAN ALSO BE BENEFICIAL
FOR FACULTY MEMBERS OF SUCH EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. ONE OF THE
BIGGEST PROS OF THIS E-LEARNING PROGRAMME IS THAT IT’S A NON-PROFIT
PLATFORM. THIS MAKES IT A GOOD RESOURCE FOR FREE ONLINE EDUCATION IN
PAKISTAN.
• HEC DIGITAL LIBRARY WORKS IN COLLABORATION WITH MANY NATIONAL AND
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS. IT HELPS IT PROVIDE SERVICES LIKE ONLINE
RESEARCH DATABASES, E-JOURNALS, AND MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS. PAKISTAN
RESEARCH REPOSITORY, IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY, AND CHEMICAL & ENGINEERING
NEWS ARE A FEW FINE EXAMPLES IN THIS REGARD. THEY HAVE ALSO PARTNERED
WITH EBSCO INFORMATION SERVICES TO PROVIDE FREE INTERNATIONALLY-
RECOGNISED MEDICAL JOURNALS.
• AS PER HEC DIGITAL LIBRARY’S OFFICIAL WEBSITE, ITS DATABASE COMPRISES A
COLLECTION OF 75,000 ELECTRONIC CONTENTS. THESE CONTENTS ARE
CATEGORISED AS HIGH-QUALITY E-JOURNALS, INTERNATIONALLY-RECOGNISED E-
BOOKS, RESEARCH ARTICLES, AND MAGAZINES.

20. THANKS FOR
READING