Technical Information Access Center

National Science&Technology Development Agency

1999 731/ Rama VI Road, Rajdh,

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TIAC Vision 1999• Serving the information need of

researchers, scientists, industrialists, educators, politicians, students satisfactorily with accurate, timely and efficient information,

• building the databases needed for planning Thailand national science and technology development policy,

• linking with global information service networks to provide worldwide access of information for Thai researchers and the public at large.

TIAC Organizational structure

NSTDA DirectorTIAC Director

Divisions: Information Systems

Information and Library Services

Services and Product Development

Administration and Finance

Budget

• Government support: salary , operating costs and inform

ation resources acquisition• Expenditure of TIAC’s Incom

e: equipment supplies relat ed to services for customers

from public sector.

1996-1999 Budget

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TIAC staff

Permanent Temporary

TIAC Director 1Computer systems 1

3Information service 7Administration 6

2Total 20

1999 Services

• - On line databases searching• Document delivery•Training&seminars• Consultancy: database creation• Tables of Content from Thai and

foreign journals• -Thai Thesis CD ROM•Publications

1999 Highlights•NSTDA Digital Archives•NSTDA Research Databases for

public access•S & T Chronology of Speech &

news releases•Cyber S & T Curriculum for Thais•Library Software Package for

small/medium sizes schools•Continuing Projects

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1989-1998 Statistics

•Served 16,320 users•Successfully fulfilled

25,213 requests•Public users 90 %

•Private users 10 %