1. Technical Information Access Center National Science&Technology Development Agency 2544/2001 73/1 Rama VI Road, Rajdhevee, Bangkok 10400,Thailand. Tel 662-644-8150-4 Fax 662-644-8038 http://www.tiac.or.th New location: Thailand Science Park, Rangsit, Patumthani

2. TIAC Vision Serving the information need of researchers, scientists, industrialists, educators, politicians, students satisfactorily with accurate, timely and efficient information, building the databases needed for Thailand national science and technology development, linking with global information service networks to provide worldwide access of information for Thai researchers and the public at large.

3. TIAC Organizational structure NSTDA Director TIAC Director Divisions: Information Systems Information and Library Services Resources Development and Acquisition Administration and Finance

4. Budget Government support: salary, operating costs and information resources acquisition Expenditure from TIAC’s Income: equipment supplies related to services for customers from public sector.

5. 1996-2001 Budget Government TIAC income 1996 Baht 24,821,635.00 1,000,000.00 1997 19,945,767.00 2,000,000.00 1998 13,227,000.00 3,000,000.00 1999 14,906,000.00 2,400,000.00 2000 15,400,800.00 3,400,000.00 2001 18,000,000.00 4,000,000.00expected

6. Resources 500 foreign S&T journals + E- journals from ScienceDirect 3 commercial on-line vendors (Dialog(TM)/STN International(TM) / Lexis-Nexis(TM) 3500 books/ research reports/ conference proceedings Thai Thesis database Web-based Tables of Content of TIAC journals ST- Net information from TIAC’s survey and research Library service area: 163 square meters

7. TIAC staff Permanent Temporary TIAC Director 1 Computer systems 3 1 Information service 7 3 Administration 6 5 Total 17 9

8. Services SDI-Selective Dissemination of Information On-line databases searching &Document delivery Training & Consultancy Web-based Tables of Content from Thai and foreign journals Thai Thesis CD-ROM/ on Web Database Design and Production Publications

9. 2001 Highlights S&T Net since 1999 NSTDA Digital Archives S&T Research Databases Dublin Core initiative for Web cataloging Cyber Resources on S & T Curriculum for Thais Library Software Package for small/medium size schools Digital Library/Virtual Information Resources planned for new site(SciencePark-Rangsit)

10. Success Stories Thailand’s first successful fee-based information service, 1992 Orbis Award : Provider of the best methods for practical solutions to information service, France, Thai Thesis Database CD / on Web, Expert in on-line database searching of S&T information, Country’s representation of on-line database training of world’s leading database vendors, Developer of Thai CD-ROM databases. Thaialnd’s Participation in Dublin Core Initiative

11. 1989-2000 Statistics Served 23,853 users Successfully fulfilled 89,134 requests of On-line databases searching/ document delivery/ information service training/ library use/ Web access Public users 90 % Private users 10 %

12. Linkages Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment : National Research Council/ Thai National Documentation Center Ministry of University Affairs Bank of Thailand/ Industrial Finance Corporation of Thailand/ Federation of the Thai Chambers of Commerce TRF / Thailand Research Fund Thai Library Association Asian Institute of Technology APEC/British Council / USIS / NACSIS / CISTI-Canada