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ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery) -provides access to thirty magazines and journals in computing and IT, with complete archive reaching back to 1950's. Also includes the ACM Special Interest Group newsletters and conference proceedings, many with full archives in 34 distinct areas of information technology address your varied interests - Programming Languages, Graphics, and Mobile communications etc.

The ACM SIGMOD Anthology - This anthology covers 25 years of database research spanning 1975-1999. It is a digital library for the database systems research community developed by ACM SIGMOD in cooperation with the VLDB Endowment, the IEEE TC on Data Engineering, and the EDBT Endowment. The bibliographic information of ACM SIGMOD Anthology is integrated into the DBLP Bibliography.

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.

American Physical Society (APS) - APS is an authoritative source of physics information. It provides full text access to all APS material from 1893 to present.

Bentham Science Publisher - in chemistry and allied subjects 41 full text titles are available, many going back to 2000.

Business Periodicals on Disc (CD-ROM), Research Edition 1971 - 1987 (index) 1988-1998 (Fulltext) - BPO has been a premier source of business information for more than 30 years. The database contains full text and abstracts of major business journals that help researchers track business conditions, trends, management techniques, corporate strategies, and industry-specific topics worldwide.

Cambridge Journals Online - Cambridge University Press’s collection of nearly 200 leading journals across the sciences, social sciences and humanities.

The Complete All India Reporter (AIR) Supreme Court on CD-ROM 1950-2007 - It covers the entire AIR Supreme Court on one disk. It facilitates to search by statute, by nominal, by page number, by name of Judges and even by combination of any of these. In addition you have specially customized search - search by cases referred.

Ebrary.....eContents Platform - ebrary offers an increasing selection of more than 20,000 e-Books in business, economics, computers, engineering and technology.

EBSCO HOST - offers the largest scholarly full text collections in the world covering virtually every area of academic study. EBSCO through PERI provides access to 7 online databases of journals. They can be searched individually, in selected groups or altogether. Over 11,000 journals are available as full text with over 4,000 of these being fully peer-reviewed.

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 as well as 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.

Encyclopedias - BRITANNICA the must reference and research tool.

Encyclopedias - ENCARTA is an ultimate research and reference source, provides access to more than 60,000 up-to-date articles, easy to use search tools, hundreds of videos, photos, animations, maps, audios, and interactive timelines, web center with thousands of web links, sidebars, and more.

Emeraldinsight- provides full text of all 150+ Emerald online journals available, with full text back files, many going back to 1990's abstracts going back in some cases to 1980's.

Global Economic Monitor (GEM) - provides daily updates of global economic developments, with coverage of high income- as well as developing countries. Daily data is provided for exchange rates, equity markets, interest rates, stripped bond spreads, commodity prices and emerging market bond indices. Monthly data coverage is provided for consumer prices, high-tech market indicators, industrial production and merchandise trade, etc. Quarterly data is available for GDP, current account balances, and budget balances. All data sets are updated each weekday to capture the latest available observations.

High Courts on CD-ROM 1975-2007 [All India Reporter (AIR) - Cri.L.J.] - It brings the full text in the paged format so that the law practitioners able to get contents of a specific page from AIR books (Indian High Court and Cri.L.J. section) in the electronic format. It also refers to the Indian High Court Act under which the Case has been decided with all the modifications in the acts and sections on year-by-year basis.

IEEE Communication Society Digital Library - is a comprehensive collection of more than 28,000 technical research/industry papers published by the IEEE ComSoc from the its inception in 1952 through the present.

IEEE Computer Society Digital Library - Computer Society Digital Library gives online access to 17 Society magazines and transactions, and a growing body of conference proceedings, from 1997 to the present.

IEEE Signal Processing Electronic Library (SPeL) - is a collection of documents from among the periodicals and technical meeting proceedings published under IEEE Signal Processing Society - SPS, the period 1950-2001. It contains about 238,000 pages of more than 44,800 documents. The whole library compressed on two DVDs.

IEEEXplore - provides full-text access to 132 IEEE and 45 IEE journals, magazines, transactions and conference proceedings as well as active IEEE standards.

IEEE's LEOS Journal Collection - LEOS (Lasers and Electro-Optics Society) CD-ROM journal collection includes the 1999 issues of the Journal of Quantum Electronics, Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Photonics Technology Letters, and the LEOS Newsletter. Also included is a cumulative index for 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999 including title, author, and abstract.

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.

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 national or regional group level.

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.

Informaworld - Informaworld provides access to over 1100 peer-reviewed research journals published by Taylor & Francis, Rutledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare in Sciences, Engineering and Humanities subject areas generally from 1997 to present.

International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA) - It provides abstracts (not full text) from approximately 900 journals and yearbooks in the fields of political science, international relations, public administration, and public law from 1989 to date. The database is updated four times a year.

Jamal's Yellow Pages of Pakistan - Jamal's Yellow Pages (JYP) is a complete up-to-date source of information on all sorts of business activities operating in Pakistan. With a very intuitive and easy to use interface, the software helps in getting business addresses and contacts in a flash. Not only this, JYP serves as direct marketing agent as well, with full facility to export data to different other formats.

JSTOR - is an online archive database with complete backfiles of over 700 core scholarly journals covering Business, Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Language, Law, Religion, Philosophy, Anthropology, History, Geography, Biological Sciences, Political Sciences and Education.

LexisNexis - More than legal research, the LexisNexis® Total Research System provides you online access to state and federal case law; codes and statutes; court documents and extensive secondary materials such as treatises and law journal articles. It has over 3.5 billion public records; business news, legal news, and regional news; expert commentary on the law; Shepard's® Citations Service; and so much more.

MathSciNet - is a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature. It is the online version of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications, which are published by the American Mathematical Society. MathSciNet indexes and abstracts journals, books, and proceedings in mathematics. The database covers from 1940 to the present and is updated daily.

Microsoft Encarta World Atlas is the most detailed and comprehensive geographical reference product. It covers the world as never before with the most realistic 3-D maps, engaging multimedia, and authoritative content.

National Trade Data Bank -The Export Connection - National Trade Data Bank (NTDB) surveys the economic and demographic conditions of over 250 countries using the central intelligence agency World Factbook. It reviews market research reports from U.S. foreign commercial service and gets exchange and interest rate data from Federal Reserve Board. It also includes the census data on Merchandise Trade Exports and Imports. NTDB spots trends and identify markets, the data is arrayed two ways: by country of origin or destination for each commodity, listed by 10-digit harmonized system code, and by top 100 commodities traded with each country. It also gives the Foreign Traders Index.

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.

Questia Digital Library - is the online library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of over 67,000 books and 375,000 journal articles in the humanities and social sciences.

PAKISTANLAWSITE - ensembles the idea of LAWONLINE. This is 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, State 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 that are PLD, SCMR, CLC, PCrLJ, PTD, PLC CLD and YLR.

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

SpringerLink - is 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 back files starting from different dates.

SpringerLink Lecture Notes in Computer Science(LNCS Book Series)- L ecture Notes in Computer Science is a medium for the publication of new research & developments in Computer Science, Information Technology and related areas. It holds over 50,000 papers from 1973 to present.

UNIDO Industrial Statistics Database - The database contains time series data starting with 1981 to the latest available year for approximately 102 countries. The data are 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 are originally stored in national currency values at 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).

United Nations Common Database (UNCDB) - is a well documented and content rich database design to meet the multidisciplinary data needs by providing many paths to the data covering economics, social, financial and development related topics since 1951.

United Nations Official Documents System Database (ODS) - is the electronic repository for official documents published by UN in all official languages. It covers the UN resolutions that include the official records versions of resolution of General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and Trusteeship Council since 1946.

United Nations Statistical Yearbook - United Nations Statistical Yearbook SYB-CD provides data on every aspect of social and economic life for nearly 200 countries and areas of the world. The content of the SYB-CD is the same as the print edition but the CD provides an easy means of searching and grouping of countries, periods and series. The Yearbook presents 81 tables in the fields of demographic and social statistics, national accounts, finance, labour force, wages and prices, agriculture, manufacturing, transport and communications, energy, environment, science and technology, intellectual property, international merchandise trade, international tourism, balance of payments, and development assistance.

United Nations Treaty Collection Database (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.

University of Chicago Press Journals- Over 50 scholarly journals of the world’s most prestigious societies are accessible. Its first scholarly publication was the Journal of Political Economy, introduced in 1892.

VISTA (CD-ROM) - Vital Information Total Analysis - provides access to historical database of the companies' published accounts, including half-yearly, since as far back as 1990. The database carries historical stock price, trading volume, summary of the director's report, name of the auditors, CEO, principal products, etc. We receive weekly updates. VISTA enables the analyst to perform, in a windows based and user-friendly environment, a comprehensive analysis on fundamentals of a company, in relation to other companies in the sector. One could analyze various sectors also, on a wide variety of parameters and ratios.

Wiley-Blackwell- provides full text access to over 800 leading learned journals in science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences, many going back to 1990's..

World Bank e-Library - is one of the most comprehensive collections in the area of social and economic development. It covers all current and recent World Bank titles, documents and papers in PDF and other user-friendly formats. It has more than 1,396 World Bank Publications and over 1,938 Policy Research Working Papers.

World Bank Global Development Finance (CD-ROM) - 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.

World Bank Global Development Finance (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.

World Bank TradeCan 2002 - is a comprehensive database for the analysis of the competitiveness of nations. It is based on the official UN international trade statistics, using the 4-digit SITC. It covers the period 1985-2000 for all exporter countries in the world. Around the central concept of "market share," TradeCAN offers novel indicators of the quality, structure and performance of international trade specialization of nations. TradeCAN 2002 has a user-friendly interface that allows rapid data retrieval and easy report preparation.  

World Bank World Data 1994 - includes World Bank data for over 200 countries, more than 700 time series on national accounts, balance of payments, trade, external debt and finance, social and natural resources, including the current Social Indicators of Development, World Tables, and World Debt Tables. National Accounts data from 1960 and Social Indicators from 1965 reminder from 1970 through the most recent estimates.

World Development Indicators - is World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. It is a collection of statistical data and commentary. It focuses on people, economy, environment, states and markets, and global links. The CD-ROM contains a database of more than 550 indicators selected from a time series database of 40 years and 208 countries, where data is available. It also contains full text of WDI book. The data can be exported in several formats. WDI 2003 has new user friendly interface.

World Development Report 1978-2003 (WDR) - published annually by the World Bank since 1978, is a mine of information on the economic and social state of the world today. This omnibus CD-ROM edition includes all reports from 1978 through 2003, fully indexed and cross-referenced. Designed for ease of speed of use, this edition uses a complete text indexing. Multiple volumes of text are turned into a single powerful resource database, which can be used as an encyclopedic reference tool by professionals and students alike.

World Development Sources (WDS) - contain information collected by the World Bank from its developing country members related to the Bank funded projects. WDS CD-ROMs also include economic and sector papers that provide the macro and sectoral background to a country. Specific types of documents are: Economic Reports and Sector Reports, Staff Appraisal Reports and Project Appraisal Reports, Technical Annexes, Global Environment Facility Project Documents, Operations Evaluation Department (OED) Reviews & Studies, OED Impact Evaluation Reports.

World Trade Almanac - is designed to provide international traders with a blueprint for success in foreign markets. The Almanac provides useful information on a variety of subjects from economics to travel for 100 of the world's leading trading nations. It is structured in a logical, easy-to-follow format, which allows ready comparison of the business environments of different countries so traders can gain a good understanding of the overall conditions and requirements of doing business in these countries. The World Trade Almanac CD-ROM contains separate documents with information on the top 100 countries in the world. There are also separate documents for an overview, the Dictionary of International Trade, and the Dictionary appendix.