Pakistan Scientific and Technological Information Center:

Pakistan Scientific and Technological Information Center (PASTIC) is the premier organization in the field of scientific and technological information dissemination. Main objectives of PASTIC are to acquire, process and disseminate S&T information to the R&D / S&T community; to compile, print & publish reference information tools, to organize trainings in contemporary techniques and methods of information handling, to develop / strengthen the PASTIC National Science Reference Library and to establish linkages with regional and international information agencies/networks.

PASTIC is situated at Quaid-i­-Azam University Campus, Islamabad , while its six Sub-Cenres are located at Karachi , Lahore , Peshawar , Quetta , Faisalabad & Muzaffarabad.

Activities:

1. S & T documents delivery service
2. Literature search/bibliographic reference service through off-line and on-line database
3. Science reference library services
4. Technology information services
5. Patent information services
6. Human resource development
7. International liaison
8. Reprographic Services
9. Publication of Pakistan Science Abstract, Union Catalogue & Directories

Achievements:

1. Supply of 142,000 documents to S&T community
2. Provision of over 2 million bibliographic references to research scholars on demand
3. Collection of 500,000 US, Canadian, German, Australian and European patents
4. Production of 30,000 indicative and informative abstracts of indigenous S&T literature in the form of Pakistan Science Abstracts (PSA)
5. Compilation and publication of Union Catalogue of S&T periodicals of 200 S&T libraries of Pakistan and an inventory of 300 S&T periodicals
6. Training to hundreds of individuals on Information Management, Library Automation, WINISIS, CDS/ISIS, IPR's, data warehousing & data mining.