Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS), in collaboration withInformation, Research and Communication (IRC), Embassy of the United States of America , Islamabadarranged a training workshop on online databases at CRSS office onThursday, March 8, 2012 from 3 pm to 5 pm. A large number of researchers, academicians and students participated in the workshop.

In her opening remarks, Ms Afshan Amir, Director IRC, US Embassy introduced the participants with the IRC and its objectives. She underlined that it is a unique initiative on the part of US State Department that it is providing free access to costly online databases.

Later on, Mr. Umar Farooq, assistant at IRC conducted the training session and thoroughly acquainted the participants with the online databases and real time search techniques. He narrated that this particular initiative on the part of IRC will provide online access to the subscribers into 32 databases and hundreds of books and documentaries. At the end, IRC provided free logins to the participants to access the databases.