Quaid-i-Azam university has been registered for digital library program of Higher Education Commission, Pakistan. As HEC has provided access to scientific and scholarly literature through the Programme for Enhancement of Research Information (PERI) of the International Network for Scientific Publications (INASP) to the various research oriented organizations including QAU.

This program aims to support capacity building in the research sector in developing and transitional countries by strengthening the production, access and dissemination of information and knowledge. Through the registration, our university have gained access to over 11,600 peer-reviewed full-text online international academic journals and more than 20,000 abstracts from some of the world's top publishing houses including Blackwell, CABI, EBSCO, oxford university press, Mary Ann Leibert, Springer, and Highwire etc. In addition, users/readers of our university have gained access to many of the world's leading bibliographic and reference databases