Pakistan Scientific and Technological Information Centre
Urdu: پاکستان سائنٹیفک اینڈ ٹیکنالوجی انفارمیشن سینٹر | |
Official patch of the PASTIC | |
| Abbreviation | PASTIC |
|---|---|
| Established | 1974 |
| Founder | Government of Pakistan |
| Founded at | Islamabad, Pakistan |
| Type | Governmental |
| Legal status | Repository |
| Purpose | Dissemination of Scientific and Technological Information |
| Headquarters | PASTIC National Center, Quaid e Azam University, Islamabad, 44000 |
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| Fields | Science and Technology |
Official language | Urdu, English |
| Muhammad Akram Sheikh | |
Parent organization | Pakistan Science Foundation |
| Website | www |
The Pakistan Scientific and Technological Information Centre (PASTIC) is a research support and premier national organization of the government of Pakistan with prime focus on scientific academic principles and research and the dissemination of scientific studies and information technology. It is principally focused on providing academic assistance to scientists, researchers, academicians, industrialists, entrepreneurs, planners, and policymakers among others. It also contains information about science, engineering and technology for research and development of technology.
An expanded project of the Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (PCSIR) and a subsidiary of the Pakistan Science Foundation, it is headquartered in Quaid-i-Azam University campus, Islamabad. Its six branches are located in Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Peshawar, Muzaffarabad and Quetta. The PASTIC consists of a database of full-text science and technology documents, publications of the Pakistan Journal of Computer and Information System (PJCIS) and secondary journals of abstracts which are available in ten academic disciplines, in addition to serving as a database of patents, bibliographic information, compilation of Union catalogues and directories, and reprographic printing services grouped into mimeographing, photocopier and microfilming.