The Thailand Information Center (TIC) is an academic service and research support unit with an information storage and retrieval facility in the fields of social and behavioural sciences relating to Thailand and its neighbouring countries. It is presently affiliated with the Center of Academic Resources, Chulalongkorn University.

The TIC was originally a joint project of the Military Research and Development Center (MRDC) of the Ministry of Defence, and of the Research and Development Center-Thailand (RDC-T) of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense. At that time the TIC was operated by the Battelle Memorial Institute - Columbus Laboratories under a contract signed with the ARPA in 1968. It was conceived as an information storage and retrieval facility to give information on Thailand, with particular emphasis on the behavioural and social sciences and related disciplines, and was intended for use by the staff and personnel of the MDRC and RDC-T, other Royal Thai and U.S. Government agencies, and independent and affiliated researchers working in the fields of security and development of the country.

In early 1971, the ARPA was preparing to terminate its research projects in Thailand, and as a consequence the TIC, which was an ARPA facility, had to cease its operation. Because of its invaluable collection of 20,000 documents which would be of much benefit to the education and research studies in Thailand, Chulalongkorn University thus applied for the rights to operate this Center. The decision to transfer the facility to Chulalongkorn University was made by the U.S. Representatives and by the Technical and Economic Co-operation Department. The TIC was transferred to Chulalongkorn University on December 30, 1971, and was officially opened on March 26, 1972.

At present, the TIC is located on the 6th floor of the Mahathirarachanusorn Building, behind the Office of the President of Chulalongkorn University at Phya Thai Road. The TIC was moved to this new building on April 1, 1982, and was opened for public use on June 14, 1982.