Palmoilis is an online database service developed and hosted by the Palm Oil Research Institute of Malaysia (PORIM). Palm oil data, information and knowledge are the strategic resource, the intellectual capital and main product of PORIM. Since its establishment in 1979, many databases and information components have been independently generated at the various R&D laboratories and pilot plants of the Institute’s headquarters at Bangi, Selangor and the local research stations in Peninsular as well as East Malaysia. PALMOILIS is an attempt to consolidate and compile comprehensively from the unrivalled collection of these varied information resources and make it accessible via the internet to the industry, the Government sector and the general public.