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The Science & Technology Policy Research and Information Center (STPI), a non-profit organization under the National Applied Research Laboratories (NARL), was established on January 16, 2005 as a result of a restructuring of the Science and Technology Information Center (STIC), which had been an operational unit within the National Science Council since 1974. The STPI was given the additional mission of conducting science and technology (sci-tech) policy research in order to provide Taiwan's government with the necessary information to enable the growth of research and innovation in Taiwan's sci-tech industry.

During its years of operation, the STIC racked up the following accomplishments:

	providing the Universal Database Access Services, which pioneered electronic
	database services in Taiwan in 1980
	establishing the first database search engine, called the Science and Technology
	Information Center Network (STICNET), in 1988
	creating the CONsortium on Core Electronic Resources in Taiwan (CONCERT) in 1998 to
	acquire licenses for required sci-tech information resources from various vendors worldwide to
	support nationwide academic research
	implementing the Nationwide Document Delivery Service (NDDS) in 1999, which began a new era
	of inter-library cooperation among the libraries libraries in Taiwan's higher education and research
	institutes.

Since 2005, the STPI has been continuing to enhance sci-tech databases for government research projects and human resources for R&D. It also enhanced the nation's capacity for innovation by allowing academic, government and industrial researchers to gain access to important data. The STPI also works closely with academic researchers and government officials to build up its core competences in sci-tech policy research.