The largest academic digital source of information resources in the Middle East, including more than (200 million)scientific materials covering all academic disciplines and more than 174 Arab and foreign databases.
SDL vision: lead in acquisition and availability of services and sources of digital information at national, Arab, and global levels.
SDL mission: provide and organize local and international digital information sources for the institutions of higher education, scientific research, and both governmental and private entities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
SDL Objectives:
1. Acquisition and management of Arab and foreign sources of digital information.
2. Developing digital information sources to support Arab scientific content.
3. Establishing strong and close cooperation links with Arab and international publishers who provide sources of digital information.
4. Providing advanced information services in the digital environment.
5. Supporting communication among researchers in the field of scientific production and publishing.
6. Application of quality standards in the digital environment.
7. Developing training mechanisms and information awareness.
8. Developing software and information systems to serve digital information sources.
9. Raising the awareness of digital information for library users.
10. Marketing and investing the sources of digital information for all institutions of education, scientific research, and both governmental and private entities.
11. Providing reports and indicators for Saudi scientific production, and periodic statistics of the use of digital information sources.
12. Unifying the management negotiation and purchase of digital educational and research content of all institutions of the country to rationalize governmental expenditure, and improve financial efficiency.

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• Saudi Arabia

• Youth
• Older persons
• Women
• Indigenous and nomadic peoples
• People with disabilities
• The poor
• Migrants
• Remote and rural communities
• Academics, students, teachers

1. Unifying government agencies.
2. Unify the procurement mechanism.
3. Quality and accumulated experience.
4. Security settings for information through infrastructure.
5. National control of digital resources
6. SDL compatibility with the digital transformation of Saudi Vision 2030
7. Maximize the benefit provided by the SDL from digital sources of information to beneficiaries

1. Achieving education with the least effort and less cost at any time 2. Availability of online sources of information for both sexes. 3. Unification of government agencies 4. Reducing inequalities by providing open sources for all, in addition to sources for university students and faculty members. 5. Utilizing the sources of digital information available to increase scientific production in research. 6. Application of policies, procedures and evidence that preserve intellectual property rights. 7. Collaborating to achieve objectives by negotiating with publishers to obtain sources of information at the lowest cost to ensure sustainability for both parties.