About NII
History
Main Events
| 1973 October | Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture proposes an "Improved Circulation System for Academic Information" in the Third Report (Basic Policies for the Promotion of Scholarship) of the Science Council. |
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| 1976 May | Research Center for Library and Information Science (RCLIS) is established at the University of Tokyo. |
| 1978 November | "A New Plan for Academic Information Systems" is presented to the Science Council by the Minister of Education, Science, Sports and Culture. The Science Council issues a response in January 1980. |
| 1983 April | Center for Bibliographic Information is established at the University of Tokyo, with the reorganization of the Research Center for Information and Library Science. |
| 1984 December | The NACSIS-CAT catalog information service is launched. |
| 1986 April | National Center for Science Information Systems (NACSIS) is established, with the reorganization of the Center for Bibliographic Information, the University of Tokyo. |
| 1987 April | The Science Information Network (SINET) is launched. |
| 1987 April | The NACSIS-IR information search service is launched. |
| 1994 November | Chiba Annex (Inage-ku, Chiba City) is built. |
| 1997 March | International Seminar House for Advanced Studies, Inose Lodge (Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture) is established. |
| 1997 December | 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. |
| 1998 January | A proposal entitled "Promoting Computer Science Reseach" is published by the Science Council of Japan, calling for the establishment of a core institution for inter-university research in informatics. |
| 1998 March | Advisory Panel on a Core Institution for Scientific Research in the Information Field issues its report. |
| 1998 April | Coordination Office is established for the Core Institution for Scientific Research in the Information Field; committee is formed in May. |
| 1999 March | Coordinating Committee of the Core Institution for Scientific Research in the Information Field issues its report. |
| 1999 April | Preparatory Office is established for the Core Institution for Scientific Research in the Information Field; committee isformed in May. |
| 1999 July | Preparatory Committee of the Core Institution for Scientific Research in the Information Field issues its interim report. |
| 2000 March | Preparatory Committee of the Core Institution for Scientific Research in the Information Field issues its final report. |
| 2000 February | Operations move to a building in the National Center of Sciences (Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo). |
| 2000 April | National Institute of Informatics (NII) is established, with the reorganization of NACSIS and assumption of its functions. |
| 2002 April | Ph.D. Program in Informatics is established in the Department of Informatics, Graduate University for Advanced Studies. |
| 2002 September | Research Planning and Promotion Strategy Office is founded. |
| 2002 October | International Course is established within Ph.D. Program in Informatics. |
| 2003 January | Global Liaison Office is formed. |
| 2003 April | Initiation of Project to Improve Infrastructure for International Circulation of Scholarly Information. |
| 2003 April | NII begins a new chapter as a member of the new Inter-University Research Institute Corporation / Research Organizationof Information and Systems. |
| 2005 February | Organization for management and Outside Collabration on Science Information Network |
| 2005 April | The official service of GeNii (NII Academic Contents Portal) is launched. |
| 2007 April | The Planning and Promotion Strategy Department is established. |
| 2007 June | Science Information Network (SINET3) is launched. |
| 2009 April | NII Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator (CiNii) and the KAKEN database of grants-in-aid for scientific research are revamped. Japanese Institutional Repositories Online (JAIRO) is officially launched. |
| 2009 June | The Academic Information Infrastructure Open Forum is established. |
| 2010 February | The first NII Shonan Meeting takes place. |
| 2011 April | Science Information Network (SINET4) is launched. |
| 2011 April | The Library Liaison Office is established. |
| 2011 November | CiNii Books is launched. |
| 2012 April | Japanese Institutional Repositories Online Cloud (JAIRO-Cloud) is launched. |