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| October 1973 |
A proposal is made to achieve an "Improvement of a Distribution System for Academic Information" in the Third Report (Basic Policies for the Promotion of Scholarship) of the Science Council. |
| May 1976 |
The Research Center for Library and Information Science (RCLIS) is established at the University of Tokyo. |
| November 1978 |
An inquiry entitled "A New Plan for Academic Information Systems" is placed before the Science Council by the Minister of Education, Science, Sports and Culture. The Science Council responds in January 1980. |
| April 1983 |
The Center for Bibliographic Information is established at the University of Tokyo. (This involves reorganizing the Center for Information and Library Science.) |
| December 1984 |
The Catalog Information Service is started. |
| April 1986 |
The National Center for Science Information Systems (NACSIS) is established. (This involves reorganizing the Center for Bibliographic Information, University of Tokyo.) |
| April 1987 |
Operation of Science Information Network and Information Retrieval Service (NACSIS-IR) is started. |
| April 1988 |
The Electronic Mail Service (NACSIS-MAIL) is started. |
| January 1989 |
The Science Information Network is linked to the National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S.A. |
| January 1990 |
The Science Information Network is linked to the British Library (BL), U.K. |
| April 1992 |
The Inter-Library Loan System (NACSIS-ILL) is started.
Operation of Internet backbone network service (SINET) is started. |
| November 1993 |
Mutual utilization by Japan Information Center of Science and Technology (JICST) users and NACSIS users becomes possible via a gateway connection. |
| April 1994 |
NACSIS-ILL is linked to the British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC). |
| October 1995 |
An international connection is established, linking the Science Information Network to Thailand. |
| April 1996 |
NACSIS-ILL System is connected with the National Diet Library (NDL). |
| March 1997 |
International Seminar House for Advanced Studies (Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture) is completed. |
| April 1997 |
The Electronic Library Service (NACSIS-ELS) is started. |
| February 2000 |
Operations move to building of National Center of Sciences (Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo). |
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| December 1997 |
An Advisory Panel on a Core Institution for Scientific Research in the Information Field is established by the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture. |
| January 1998 |
A proposal entitled "Promoting Computer Science Research" is published by the Science Council of Japan.
It calls for a core informatics research institution be established as an inter-university research institute. |
| March 1998 |
The Advisory Panel on a Core Institution for Scientific Research in the Information Field issues its report. |
| Apri 1998 |
The Core Institution for Scientific Research in the Information Field Coordination Office is established, and a committee is formed in May. |
| March 1999 |
The Core Institution for Scientific Research in the Information Field Coordinating Committee issues its report. |
| April 1999 |
The Core Institution for Scientific Research in the Information Field Preparatory Office is established, and a committee is formed in May. |
| July 1999 |
The Core Institution for Scientific Research in the Information Field Preparatory Committee issues its interim report. |
| March 2000 |
The Core Institution for Scientific Research in the Information Field Preparatory Committee issues its final report. |
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| April 2000 |
The National Institute of Informatics (NII) is established. (This involves the reorganization of NACSIS and assumption of its functions.) |
| January 2002 |
Super SINET is started |
| April 2002 |
Ph.D Program in Informatics at the Department of Informatics, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies is established.
Global Environment for Networked Intellectual Information (GeNii) is started.
Operation of Document Delivery Service between U.S. and Japan is started. |
| June 2002 |
Operation of Intersystem Linkage of Catalogs with RLG in U.S. is started. |
| September 2002 |
Research Planning and Promotion Strategy Office is founded. |
| October 2002 |
International Course of Ph.D.Program in Informatics is established.
Joint Project for Constructing NII metadata database is started. |
| January 2003 |
Global Liaison Office is founded. |
| April 2003 |
National Research Grid Initiative (NAREGI) is started.
Project for the Improvement of the Infrastructure of International Scholarly Information
Circulation(SPARC/JAPAN) is started. |
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| April 2004 |
NII begins a new chapter as a member of the new Inter-University Research Institute Corporation / Research Organization of Information and Systems. |
| April 2005 |
The official service of GeNii (NII Scholarly and Academic Information Portal) is launched. |
| June 2007 |
Science Information Network (SINET3) is launched. |
