COMSATS Institute of Information Technology; Digital Library

 

 

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Library is subscribing 30,000 on-line journals (through HEC) giving access to Abstracts, , full text and Document Delivery Services. These journals are available through nine world's renowned Publishers having different databases on Sciences, Technology, Social science and humanities.

As most of the full text material on the web is in PDF (Portable Document format) so you must have any PDF reader installed in your computer like Adobe acrobat reader to view the PDF files.

 

 

Institutional Representative

Nafees Ud-Din

 

Designation

Dy.  Librarian

 

E - Mail

nafees@ciit.net.pik

 

Phone Number

0992-383591-7 Ext: 327

New Resources

Emerald
This is a highly valuable resource containing full text access to the world's widest range of management and library & information services journals. The entire collection contains over 150 titles, with leading titles in marketing, business disciplines, engineering and materials science. Service Strengths, 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

ISI Web OF Knowledge
An integrated Web-based platform, The ISI Web of Knowledge provides high-quality content and the tools to access, analyze, and manage research information. Provides simultaneous access to a variety of leading research databases, including the Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and Essential Science Indicators (ESI) and the bibliographic management software, EndNote

Open Access E-Books:
E-Books are the ideal way to gain quick knowledge on any subject areas. There is such a huge range of free e-books now available through HEC, that there is almost certainly something here that will suit for your quick reading purposes.

Available Resources

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICS TEACHERS

  • Two AAPT publications provide up to date physics knowledge, at a level comprehensible for many users.
  • AAPT publications assist in the learning of new and traditional teaching methodologies and the use of modern technology in Physics.

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS

  • Provides access to the full-collection of highly-rated of 11 Journals and conference proceedings.
  • Covers developments in Physics, Industrial Applications (Applied Physics), and advances in Scientific Computing.

AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY

  • Provides full-text online access to its four journals as well as the MathSciNet database.
  • Covers international mathematical literature dating back to 1940, providing access to the bibliographic data and reviews of mathematical literature contained in the Mathematical Reviews database.

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY

  • APS provides access to 9 prestigious research publications
  • Includes the five-specialist Physical Review Publications, and the PROLA archive

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MICROBIOLOGY

  • Provides access to 11 high-quality on-line journals.
  • Covers the spectrum of Microbiology, from Molecular and Cellular Biology to Biomedical Research and Technology.

ASSOCIATION OF COMPUTING MACHINERY

  • The ACM contains full-text from 28 ACM Journals and Transactions, 10 ACM Magazines, over 40 ACM Special Interest Newsletters, 15 non-ACM journal and publications and over 100 annual conference proceedings.
  • Content strengths include all areas of Information Technology, with full archival content for all ACM publications.

BENTHAM SCIENCE

  • Online journal access to 42 scholarly journals from Bentham Science Publishing.
  • Bentham journals are renowned in Pharmaceutical sciences, Drug design and discovery, Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, Biotechnology, Protein and Peptide science, Proteomics, HIV Research and Neuroscience.

BLACKWELL SYNERGY

  • Online database containing over 750 peer-reviewed full-text journals from Blackwell Publishing.
  • Subject Strengths include: all Life Sciences, Medicine/Health, Ecology, Veterinary Science, Accountancy and Economics, Cultural Studies, Development Issues, Social Policy, Law, History and Management Studies.

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

  • Cambridge Journals Online is the online content delivery service for Cambridge University Press’s collection of nearly 200 leading journals.
  • Subject Strengths includes: Politics, Linguistics, Social Science, ,Humanities, Law, Mathematics, Science, Medicine

EBSCOHOST

9 databases of information that provide access to over 17,250 abstracted and indexed journals of which over 13,000 are available as full-text with over 4,700 of these being fully peer-reviewed.

Databases within EBSCOHOST include:

Academic Search Premier

·         The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database containing full-text for nearly 4,700 publications with over 3,600 peer-reviewed journals.

·         Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study.

Business Source Premier

·         The world’s largest full-text business database providing full-text for nearly 7,600 scholarly business journals with over 1,100 peer reviewed business publications.

·         Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business.

ELSEVIER (Science Direct)

  • Science Direct is the world's leading electronic collection of scientific journals.
  • Renowned for the high-quality of its content in all branches of science, technology and medicine.

     Subscribed Subject Areas

  • Computer Science
  • Mathematics
  • Physics and Astronomy

INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS - IEEE

  • Provides access to almost a third of the world's current Electrical Engineering and Computer Science literature.
  • IEL provides full-text access to 132 IEEE and 45 IEE journals, magazines, transactions and conference proceedings as well as active IEEE standards.

INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS

  • The Institute of Physics is a leading international professional body and learned society, established to promote the advancement and dissemination of physics. The Institute has a world-wide membership.
  • Subject Strength: Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, Applied Physics, Computer Science, Condensed Matter and Materials Science, High Energy and Nuclear Physics, Measurement Science and Sensors, Medical and Biological Physics, Optical, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Plasma Physics, Physics Education.

JSTOR

  • Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, with over 500 high-quality publications available in the archive.
  • JSTOR provides the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated.

MARY ANN LIEBERT

  • Provides access to 55 authoritative peer-reviewed journals.
  • Subject strengths in the most promising areas of Biotechnology, Biomedical Research/Life Sciences, Clinical Medicine and Surgery, and Law.

NATURE PUBLISHING

  • Nature is amongst the most prestigious journals of the world.
  • Includes prompt publications of significant advances in all branches of science, as well as providing a forum for the reporting and discussion of news and issues concerning science.

OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

  • Access to 8 peer-reviewed journals that set the publications standard for advanced optics research within each major sector of the field.
  • OSA journals cover the full spectrum of optics research, including the fields of Physics, Materials Research, Atmospheric Studies, Visual Psychology, Biomedical Optics, Physiology, and Ophthalmology, as well as Mechanical, Computer, Electrical and Optical Engineering.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

  • Access to over 190 leading titles in Science, Technology, Medicine, Humanities and Social sciences.
  • Subject Strengths include content in Medicine, Public Health and Epidemiology, Humanities, Social Sciences, Law, Economics, Business, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, Computing and Physics.

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

  • A dynamic publisher within the Social Sciences and Humanities, with 31 authoritative publications.
  • Content strengths include Business Management, Economics, Education, Information Systems, Information Technology, Political Science, International Studies, Social and Cultural Studies, Urban Design and Architecture.

ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY

  • One of world's leading chemistry publishers, the RSC provides access to the full-text of its 50 online journals.
  • Subject areas cover all branches of Chemistry, plus a range 4 key abstracting databases in Analytical Chemistry, Catalysts and Catalyzed Reactions, Organic Synthesis and Natural Products plus its online series of specialist periodical reports.

SCIENCE ONLINE

  • Provides access to the full text of the prestigious Science publication.
  • It allows users to search within Science and across a multitude of scientific journals.
  • Provided to selected public-sector universities in Pakistan on the basis of identified research requirements.

SCOPUS

  • Scopus is a multidisciplinary navigational tool that contains records going back to the mid 1960s, offering newly-linked citations across the widest body of scientific abstracts available in one place
  • Designed and developed with researchers and librarians, Scopus is the easy way to get expert results. It offers superior support of the literature research process.
  • Subject Strengths includes: Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Engineering, Life and Health Sciences, Social Sciences, Psychology and Economics, Biological, Agricultural, Environmental and General Sciences.

SPRINGERLINK

  • SpringerLink provides 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.

FREE MEDICAL JOURNALS

  • 47 leading international medical Journals available through "Highwire Press", without any registration