A very special feature of Khuda Bakhsh Library is its publications which have created history in the academic world. Since 1977 it has been issuing regularly a bilingual research quarterly "Khuda Bakhsh Library Journal" in Urdu and English. Sometimes it contains articles in Persian and Arabic also. The main aim of bringing out this Journal was to advance research in oriental and Islamic studies and also to promote research in literature. Hence it includes scholarly articles, reprints of articles from old research periodicals and prints original articles on the subjects, the library specializes.

Simultaneously it undertook a project of publishing research treatises, its manuscripts after getting them edited by scholars, facsimile edition of manuscripts, indices of Urdu periodicals, catalogue of the manuscripts, books bridging the communal gap and also books on Indian culture, history, literature and Islam.

It has brought out so far about 400 titles in